scholarly journals Tales of transition

Literator ◽  
1997 ◽  
Vol 18 (3) ◽  
pp. 1-24 ◽  
Author(s):  
H. Viljoen ◽  
E. Hentschel
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
Social Control ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Nationalist Discourse ◽  
The Past ◽  
Social Transitions ◽  
The People ◽  
Similarities And Differences ◽  
South Africa And Germany

In this article the rationale of this special issue is provided and the different contributions are introduced. The assumption is that there are strong similarities between the recent political and social transitions in South Africa and Germany and the reactions, both emotional and literary, of the people involved. Broadly, the transitions are described as a movement from external (or violent) to internal (or ideological) social control, though this must be modified by the various constructions the contributors put on the transition. The main themes and questions of the transitions are synthesized, highlighting the marked similarities the different contributions reveal. The most important of these are the relation to the past, problems of identity, projections of the new and the internal contradictions of nationalist discourse (which informs the process of transition). In conclusion, the similarities and differences between the two transitions indicated by this special issue, are discussed. The assumption of strong similarities between the two seems to hold, it is argued, but much more research into the matter is needed.

“The people's oil”

Focaal ◽  
2008 ◽  
Vol 2008 (52) ◽  
pp. 57-74 ◽  
Author(s):  
John Gledhill
Keyword(s):  
Social Justice ◽  
Economic Order ◽  
The Past ◽  
The People ◽  
Structural Differences ◽  
Potential Link ◽  
World Economic ◽  
Similarities And Differences ◽  
World Economic Order ◽  
National Resource

This article examines similarities and differences in the development of the oil industries of Brazil, Mexico, and Venezuela through an analysis of the struggles and alliances between their elites, political classes, and diverse popular forces. The analysis demonstrates that although history has produced popular skepticism over the meaning of the state's claim that “our oil belongs to the people,” a popular imaginary of the potential link between national resource sovereignty and social justice has had powerful historical effects. Despite the structural differences between these cases, it remains today at the center of emergent alternatives that cannot be dismissed simply as a return to the populism of the past. While its main significance in Mexico to date has been to impede persistent efforts to privatize the industry, in the cases of Venezuela and Brazil we may now talk of significant possibilities for building a more multipolar world economic order.

scholarly journals Dealing with the past in Latin America, South Africa and Germany

2021 ◽  
pp. 7-16
Author(s):  
Tatjana Louis ◽  
Mokgadi Molope ◽  
Stefan Peters
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
Latin America ◽  
The Past ◽  
America South ◽  
South Africa And Germany

State Crimes of Previous Regimes: Knowledge, Accountability, and the Policing of the Past

1995 ◽  
Vol 20 (01) ◽  
pp. 7-50 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stanley Cohen
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
Human Rights ◽  
Latin America ◽  
Social Control ◽  
Criminal Law ◽  
Human Rights Violations ◽  
Social Reconstruction ◽  
The Past ◽  
The Subject

The policy of lustration is set in the context of responses to abuses of power by previous regimes. Using examples from three recent forms of social reconstruction (in Latin America, the former communist states, and South Africa), the author reviews the “justice in transition” debate. How do societies going through democratization confront the human rights violations committed by the previous regime? Five aspects of this debate are reviewed: (1) truth: establishing and confronting the knowledge of what happened in the past; (2) justice: making offenders accountable for their past violations through three possible methods: punishment through the criminal law, compensation and restitution, and mass disqualification such as lustration; (3) impunity: giving amnesty to previous offenders; (4) expiation; and (5) reconciliation and reconstruction. A concluding discussion raises the implications of the subject for the study of time and social control.

scholarly journals The effect of the new revenue standard on client loyalty programmes

2014 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
pp. 393-414
Author(s):  
Sophia Brink
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
Time Limit ◽  
Specific Reference ◽  
Accounting Standard ◽  
New Model ◽  
Specific Recognition ◽  
The Past ◽  
Similarities And Differences ◽  
International Accounting Standard ◽  
Loyalty Programme

The popularity of client loyalty programmes has increased drastically over the past few years, with more than 100 suppliers in South Africa currently making use of them. On 1 July 2007 the IASB issued IFRIC 13 to give specific guidance to suppliers on the accounting treatment of client loyalty programme transactions. In the process of compiling a new revenue standard, the International Accounting Standard Board published Exposure Draft ED/2011/6 Revenue from Contracts with Customers on 14 November 2011 to supersede virtually all existing revenue standards and interpretations under IFRS, including IFRIC 13. Although the effective date of the new revenue standard is 1 January 2017, in view of the nature of a client loyalty programme transaction it would be prudent for suppliers to start collecting data immediately for the retrospective application. Given the time limit and the minimal specific reference to client loyalty programme transactions in the proposed new model, the main aim of the research was to investigate the proposed new model’s impact on the accounting treatment of client loyalty programme transactions. The similarities and differences between the guidelines in IFRIC 13 and those of the proposed new model as well as the specific paragraphs in the proposed new model that are applicable to client loyalty programme transactions were considered. A specific recognition difference and a presentation difference has been identified between the accounting treatment of a client loyalty programme transaction under IFRIC 13 and that of the proposed new model.

scholarly journals Contextuality and Intercontextuality in Public Theology: On the Structure of Churches’ Public Engagement in South Africa and Germany

2017 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
pp. 36-63 ◽  
Author(s):  
Willem Fourie ◽  
Hendrik Meyer-Magister
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
Public Engagement ◽  
Public Theology ◽  
Descriptive Approach ◽  
Similarities And Differences ◽  
South Africa And Germany

Contextuality and intercontextuality remain important themes in the burgeoning field of public theology. The authors employ a comparative and descriptive approach to contribute to this complex of themes. It is done by investigating and comparing the concrete ways in which churches in South Africa and Germany structure their public engagement. The authors find both significant similarities and differences and conclude with two consequences for reflection on contextuality and intercontextuality in the field of public theology.

scholarly journals The world after September 11, 2001: Challenges to the churches, and their leaders

2002 ◽  
Vol 23 (3) ◽  
pp. 601-607
Author(s):  
M. Dandala
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
September 11 ◽  
Church Leaders ◽  
Methodist Church ◽  
The Past ◽  
The People ◽  
University Of Pretoria ◽  
The World ◽  
The Usa ◽  
American Nation

Bishop Mvume Dandala, presiding bishop of the Methodist Church in South Africa and extra-ordinary professor in the Faculty of Theology, University of Pretoria, was asked to lead an international delegation of Church leaders to the USA in the wake of September 11, 2001. In his article he tells about the experience of church leaders from a number of countries that suffered trauma and violence in the past, pastoring to leaders and congregant’s in the USA, after the tragic events that shook the American nation. He reflects on the different challenges to Churches and their leaders, that await us in a time of trouble and tribulation: (i) to strive for universal peace; (ii) for churches to find a common voice in their struggle against injustices; and (iii) to communicate the imperatives of the gospel meaningfully to the people of the world.

Making it less WEIRD: The landscape of Brazilian female evolutionary psychology

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Natalia Bezerra Dutra ◽  
Phiética Raíssa Rodrigues da Silva ◽  
Aline Melina Vaz
Keyword(s):  
Evolutionary Psychology ◽  
Culturally Diverse ◽  
Positive Impact ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Female Representation ◽  
Gender Imbalance ◽  
Evolutionary Theories ◽  
The Past ◽  
Female Authors ◽  
Similarities And Differences

Evolutionary psychology has been criticised regarding its limited samples and authorship, which are mainly represented by people from North America. Conversely, the discussion on gender imbalance in authorship in evolutionary theories has ignored the representation of female authors from other countries. Here we assessed the presence of Brazilian female researchers in evolutionary psychology (EP) journals and the Human Behavior and Evolution Society (HBES) conference, as well as in Brazilian publications in the field and meetings sponsored by HBES. We found that Brazilian women published 0.6% (compared to 0.8% of Brazilian men) of the papers in EP journals. Brazilian women (and men) were 0% of the invited speakers at HBES conference, versus 24% female (vs 0% male) speakers at the Brazilian sponsored meetings. This is striking considering the prominent roles Brazilian female evolutionary psychologists have had within the country in the past decades, which includes leading the publication of two books and one special issue on the topic. We highlight the similarities and differences between Brazilian and overall female representation in evolutionary psychology, based on our data. We propose that including more culturally diverse female authors in evolutionary psychology journals and meetings can generate a positive impact in the field.

The Creation of Identity: Colonial Society in Bolivia and Tanzania

1993 ◽  
Vol 35 (2) ◽  
pp. 263-284 ◽  
Author(s):  
Robert H. Jackson ◽  
Gregory Maddox
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
Social Control ◽  
Legal Status ◽  
East India Company ◽  
Colonial Society ◽  
The People ◽  
The Government ◽  
Divide And Rule ◽  
Colonial Government ◽  
Landed Elite

Many colonial regimes appropriate traditional symbols of power to enhance authority. In many cases this appropriation results in the hardening of more transitory political divisions among subject people into ethnic, national, or tribal ones. Colonialism often, in essence, creates different identities for subject peoples. For example, the East India Company (E.I.C.) and royal colonial government in India manipulated caste and religion to carry out a policy of divide and rule. Moreover, the E.I.C. and later the Raj attempted to create a European-style landed elite that could promote development of agriculture, maintain social control in the countryside and, perhaps most important, collect taxes owed to the government. The Raj attempted to place the structures of power that evolved within the framework of the symbols of Moghul legitimacy, going so far as to create a hybrid traditional style of architecture used in many public buildings that mixed elements from both Hindu and Muslim buildings. In South Africa, colonial legislation, as seen in the process begun by the Glen Gray Act of 1894, resulted in the proletarianization of the African population by creating tribal reservations without enough resources to support all the people often arbitrarily defined as members of a particular tribe. And, as seen in studies of mine labor, coloniallegislation also defined a distinctive legal status for workers.

Suicidal Behavior in Black South Africans

Crisis ◽  
2003 ◽  
Vol 24 (1) ◽  
pp. 24-28 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lourens Schlebusch ◽  
Naseema B.M. Vawda ◽  
Brenda A. Bosch
Keyword(s):  
South African ◽  
Suicidal Behavior ◽  
Health Care Facilities ◽  
South African Society ◽  
South Africans ◽  
The Past ◽  
The People ◽  
Care Facilities ◽  
Black South Africans ◽  
To Come

Summary: In the past suicidal behavior among Black South Africans has been largely underresearched. Earlier studies among the other main ethnic groups in the country showed suicidal behavior in those groups to be a serious problem. This article briefly reviews some of the more recent research on suicidal behavior in Black South Africans. The results indicate an apparent increase in suicidal behavior in this group. Several explanations are offered for the change in suicidal behavior in the reported clinical populations. This includes past difficulties for all South Africans to access health care facilities in the Apartheid (legal racial separation) era, and present difficulties of post-Apartheid transformation the South African society is undergoing, as the people struggle to come to terms with the deleterious effects of the former South African racial policies, related socio-cultural, socio-economic, and other pressures.

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