scholarly journals Negotiated Precarity in the Global South: A Case Study of Migration and Domestic Work in South Africa

2020 ◽  
Vol 2020 (14) ◽  
pp. 210-227
Author(s):  
Zaheera Jinnah
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
Conceptual Framework ◽  
Domestic Workers ◽  
Global South ◽  
Employment Relations ◽  
Economic Vulnerability ◽  
Cross Border ◽  
The Everyday ◽  
Discrimination In Employment

This article explores precarity as a conceptual framework to understand the intersection of migration and low-waged work in the global south. Using a case study of cross-border migrant domestic workers in South Africa, I discuss current debates on framing and understanding precarity, especially in the global south, and test its use as a conceptual framework to understand the everyday lived experiences and strategies of a group that face multiple forms of exclusion and vulnerability. I argue that a form of negotiated precarity, defined as transactions which provide opportunities for survival but also render people vulnerable, can be a useful way to make sense of questions around (il)legality and (in)formality in the context of poorly protected work, insecure citizenship and social exclusion. Precarity as a negotiated strategy shows the ways in which people interact with systems and institutions and foregrounds their agency. But it also illustrates that the negative outcomes inherent in more traditional notions of precarity, expressed in physical and economic vulnerability, and discrimination in employment relations, mostly hurt the poor. This suggests the importance of an intersectional approach to understanding precarity in labour migration studies.

scholarly journals Into the Interstices: Everyday Practices of Refugees and Their Supporters in Europe’s Migration ‘Crisis’

Sociology ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 52 (3) ◽  
pp. 587-603 ◽  
Author(s):  
Elena Fontanari ◽  
Maurizio Ambrosini
Keyword(s):  
Migration Policy ◽  
Structural Level ◽  
Building Relationships ◽  
Active Involvement ◽  
Cross Border ◽  
Everyday Practices ◽  
The Everyday ◽  
Local Residents ◽  
Migration Crisis

This article investigates the interconnections between migration to Europe for asylum and the multiple ‘crises’ of the border regime that have occurred in recent decades. Drawing on 22 months of ethnographic research with refugees in Italy and Germany, the article highlights the tensions between migration policy and legislation at the structural level and the agency of refugees. The case study focuses on a protest staged by refugees in Berlin and the active involvement of its civil-society supporters. The everyday practices of refugees, including building relationships with local residents, cross-border mobility within Europe and ‘inhabiting’ the grey zones where different national jurisdictions intersect, generate frictions that open up spaces of autonomy: the ‘interstices’. Territorial, social and judicial interstices develop out of the power relations in Europe’s migration ‘battleground’.

scholarly journals Religion and Globalization in Laos

2009 ◽  
Vol 28 (1) ◽  
pp. 9-29
Author(s):  
Boike Rehbein
Keyword(s):  
Social Structure ◽  
Conceptual Framework ◽  
Social Groups ◽  
Global South ◽  
Functional System ◽  
Religious Traditions ◽  
Private Matter ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Structure Division

According to Eurocentric sociology, modernization is supposed to make religion secular, a functional system, or a private matter. A closer analysis of the impact of contemporary globalization on religion in Laos shows that these tendencies can only be observed in certain social groups and in certain realms of religion. Some social groups preserve or reinvent religious traditions, others construct a new identity, and some do tend towards secularism or differentiation. The paper investigates these tendencies, referring to an empirical case study. It proposes to explain them within a conceptual framework adapted to societies of the global South which focuses on the concepts of social structure, division of work, socioculture, and institution. On the basis of these concepts, the paper proposes to distinguish between different religious realms, namely, belief, performance, and knowledge. In each of these three realms, different tendencies and social distributions can be observed.

Knowledge Sharing in an Organisation

2020 ◽  
pp. 201-220 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lee-Anne Lesley Harker ◽  
Michael Twum-Darko
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
South Africa ◽  
Conceptual Framework ◽  
Knowledge Sharing ◽  
Network Theory ◽  
Actor Network Theory ◽  
Education Institution ◽  
Higher Education Institution ◽  
Actor Network

This chapter employed the moments of translation of the actor-network theory (ANT) to understand and interpret the sociotechnical knowledge sharing dynamics in organisations. Given the contextual and sociotechnical nature of knowledge sharing, a model constructed on the concepts of the moments of translation of the actor network theory (ANT), developed from a case study of a higher education institution (HEI) in South Africa, is proposed to help to understand and interpret the knowledge sharing challenges in organisations. A conceptual framework was developed within the context of ANT by adopting its ideals and principles to understand how to introduce and develop knowledge sharing within an organisation, using the moments of translation. As such, it was possible to determine why there is no network of aligned interest for knowledge sharing, and how to create a network of aligned interest.

Case Study

2020 ◽  
pp. 52-73
Author(s):  
James Leigland
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
Transport Infrastructure ◽  
African Union ◽  
Toll Road ◽  
Cross Border ◽  
Adequate Power

This chapter presents a case study of the Maputo Corridor toll road concession, linking South Africa with neighboring Mozambique. As the first cross-border transport PPP in SSA, this project is the first PPP in the region with a claim to the kind of “transformational” qualities that the G20 and the African Union have been hoping will dramatically improve infrastructure across the continent. The continent includes many landlocked countries as well as countries that are too small and poor to be able to finance adequate power and transport infrastructure without the collaboration of neighbors. However, this project is still the only cross-border toll road concession ever completed in SSA. Why have no similar projects ever been completed in Africa? What makes the Maputo toll road a unique project? What lessons can we learn from the Maputo project about the likely success of cross-border transformational PPPs in SSA?

scholarly journals Towards liberationist engagement with ethnicity: A case study of the politics of ethnicity in a Methodist church

2016 ◽  
Vol 72 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Elina Hankela
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
Everyday Life ◽  
Religious Studies ◽  
Methodist Church ◽  
Ethnographic Fieldwork ◽  
The Everyday ◽  
Diversity Discourse

The article calls for critical theological examination of the politics of ethnicity in the context of mainline churches in South Africa. The category of ethnicity is largely missing in the interrogation of diversity in the delineated context. Including this category of difference in the theological and religious studies diversity discourse would, if brought to bear on praxis, facilitate the building of inclusive worship spaces. On the contrary, neglecting the politics of ethnicity in the context of churches means neglecting a dynamic that impacts negatively on the everyday life of ordinary churchgoers. The argument is based on ethnographic fieldwork conducted by the author in a Methodist church in Johannesburg primarily in 2009.

Centrist television in the democratic South Africa: policymakers fail to answer the regional/local question, 1990-2011

Info ◽  
2013 ◽  
Vol 15 (5) ◽  
pp. 128-140
Author(s):  
Chris Armstrong
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
Policy Implementation ◽  
Conceptual Framework ◽  
South African ◽  
Public Interest ◽  
Content Type ◽  
The Public ◽  
Media Regulation ◽  
The Impact

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to explore the disconnect between policy intent and policy implementation in relation to regional/local (sub-national) TV deliverables in South Africa between 1990 and 2011, and evaluate the impact of this disconnect in pursuit of public interest objectives. Design/methodology/approach – The article is based on a research case study in which data extracted from policy documents and interviews were qualitatively analysed via the Kingdon “policy streams” framework and the Feintuck and Varney public interest media regulation framework. Findings – It was found that ruptures in deliberative policymaking, and policy implementation missteps, undermined sub-national TV delivery and, in turn, undermined pursuit of the public interest. Originality/value – By combining a political science conceptual framework with a media policy conceptual framework, the article provides unique insights into South African TV policymaking in the early democratic era.

scholarly journals A Framework of Engagement Practices for Stakeholders Collaborating around Complex Social Challenges

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (19) ◽  
pp. 10828
Author(s):  
Frederick Robert Peter Edlmann ◽  
Sara Grobbelaar
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
Conceptual Framework ◽  
Stakeholder Engagement ◽  
Sub Saharan Africa ◽  
Management Tool ◽  
Framework Analysis ◽  
Causal Factors ◽  
Social Challenges ◽  
The Impact

South Africa’s interventions to address complex social challenges rely on coordination across several sectors and between different levels of government and society. Improved alignment, planning and coordination are needed when addressing the causal factors of these social challenges. These causal factors include the environments in which people live and their behaviours. Furthermore, emphasis is placed on the recurring engagement of civil society, especially of marginalized stakeholders, as participants in the efforts to address the challenges. The study draws from the promise shown by stakeholder networks, termed Innovation Platforms, in other Sub-Saharan Africa countries to address such complex social challenges. The study aimed to improve the understanding of how a stakeholder network’s engagement practices impact the effectiveness of the network. To this end, a conceptual framework and management tool for stakeholder engagement in IPs is proposed. The study followed the conceptual framework analysis procedure to develop, evaluate and refine the conceptual framework. The article describes the core research outcomes of the framework development approach, starting with a systematized literature review to identify core concepts, followed by interviews with experts and a case study to refine the framework content. The case study applied the framework to develop recommendations for improved engagement in a stakeholder network which has been established around the challenge of vagrancy in Stellenbosch, South Africa. The result of the approach is a multidimensional framework for conceptualizing stakeholder engagement practices in a variety of contexts. The focus of the framework content remains on the practices of engagement which enable effective and fruitful stakeholder interactions within and around a network. The study delivered valuable insights into the nature of some development initiatives in South Africa and the impact of stakeholder engagement on them.

Corruption and Capability in the Dutch Republic: The Case of Lodewijk Huygens (1676)

Public Voices ◽  
2016 ◽  
Vol 10 (2) ◽  
pp. 7 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michel P. Hoenderboom ◽  
Toon Kerkhoff
Keyword(s):  
Early Modern ◽  
Conceptual Framework ◽  
Historical Context ◽  
Shop Floor ◽  
Public Official ◽  
Dutch Republic ◽  
Political Arena ◽  
Legal Standards ◽  
The Everyday

This article presents and exemplifies an approach to the problem of revealing values related to capability in actual historical context. First, a conceptual framework is discussed that allows us to identify values underlying capability. Second, a case study is used to exemplify the conceptual framework and to locate values associated with capability in early modern public office. The case study on the (in)capability of Lodewijk Huygens (1631 – 1699), sheriff of Gorinchem between 1672 and 1684, shows what was considered (un)acceptable, (un)wanted and (in)tolerable behavior for a typical high-ranking seventeenthcentury public official in the Dutch Republic. The Huygens case teaches us that capability mainly consisted of adhering to the everyday rules of conduct among officials on the “shop-floor.” Formal legal standards and public opinion were of limited practical relevance. A capable magistrate should at least maintain harmony and balance on the practical side of the political arena.

Disciplinary documentation in Apartheid South Africa

2015 ◽  
Vol 71 (1) ◽  
pp. 96-115 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marc Richard Hugh Kosciejew
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
Conceptual Framework ◽  
Information Science ◽  
Ethnic Identities ◽  
Academic Disciplines ◽  
Library And Information Science ◽  
Content Type ◽  
The Creation

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to argue that information is an important effect of documentation. It is in this way that documentation studies distinguishes between concepts of and practices with “information” and “document”: that is, documentation studies helps illuminate how information is created, stabilized, and materialized such that it can emerge and, in turn, how it can then be controlled, deployed, enforced, entrenched, managed, and used in many different ways, in various settings, and for diverse purposes. Design/methodology/approach – This paper presents a conceptual framework on documentation, drawing upon the work of Bernd Frohmann, Michel Foucault, Bruno Latour, Hannah Arendt, @@and Ian Hacking, and applied to a case study of Apartheid South Africa. Findings – Apartheid’s documentation helped achieve apartness at the macro and micro levels of society: on the macro level, the creation and subsequent separation of different racial and ethnic identities were drafted, adopted, and turned into law through legislative documents; on the micro level, these identities were reinforced through routines with personal documents and public signs. This documentation functioned as a documentary apparatus, providing a tangible link between individuals and their official racial and ethnic categories by creating a seamless movement of documents through various institutions; further it helped transform these racial and ethnic identities into lived facts that disciplined and controlled life. Originality/value – By examining documentation, one can present a fresh and unique perspective to understanding the construction of various things, such as the construction of identities. This conceptual framework contributes to Library and Information Science (LIS) by illuminating the central role of documentation in the creation, stabilization, materialization, and emergence of information. By using Apartheid South Africa as a case study, this paper demonstrates how this framework can be applied to shed new light on different kinds of phenomena in diverse contexts; consequently, it not only contributes to and extends parts of the scholarship on documentation studies within LIS, but also presents new directions for other academic disciplines and multidisciplinary analyses and research.

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