Emerging religious identities of female Indian adolescents in post-apartheid South Africa and its role as change agent

2005 ◽  
Vol 14 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Naydene De Lange ◽  
Tilla Olivier
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
Change Agent ◽  
Religious Identities ◽  
Indian Adolescents

Civics, civility and race in post-apartheid South Africa

2018 ◽  
Vol 18 (2-3) ◽  
pp. 296-325
Author(s):  
Thomas Blom Hansen
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
Religious Community ◽  
Major Obstacle ◽  
Civic Responsibility ◽  
Social Difference ◽  
Religious Identities ◽  
Racial Boundaries ◽  
Crucial Component ◽  
History Of ◽  
Racial Lines

This article explores how, and why, the capacity for civic responsibility and civility of conduct became a central discursive and practical battleground in the colonial world. Nowhere was this more pronounced than in colonial and apartheid South Africa, where the putative benefits of self-government along separate racial lines became a crucial component of apartheid. Starting from a brief conceptual history of civility and colonialism, I argue that the principle of self-government was a central pivot of apartheid. I explore how the celebrated Civics movement that eventually brought apartheid down fostered civic ties and “ethno-civility” in a formerly Indian township in Durban from the 1970s to the 1990s. This legacy of ethno-civility has, however, turned out to be a major obstacle to the forging of relationships across racial boundaries in post-apartheid society. Deploying two ethnographic vignettes from this township, I argue that the ideals of global religious community today have taken the place as a promise of universality of mediation between groups and racial communities that the Civics movement used to occupy during the apartheid era. Yet, religious identities are unable to overcome deeper formations of racial and social difference.

Green Digital Enterprise and Chaos Theory in Tourism Development

2013 ◽  
pp. 232-246
Author(s):  
Ezendu Ariwa ◽  
Carsten Martin Syvertsen
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
Developing Countries ◽  
Tacit Knowledge ◽  
Chaos Theory ◽  
Change Agent ◽  
Tourism Development ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Market Segments ◽  
Digital Enterprise ◽  
Tourism Economy

This paper examines how eco-tourism can be regarded as a change agent in the tourism economy in developing countries. By using conceptual contributions from chaos theory, the authors illustrate how eco-tourism might give competitive advantage, using South Africa as the empirical setting. Destinations focusing on chaos theory when organizing their efforts within eco-tourism may be able to tailor make services to well-defined market segments through the use of tacit knowledge. Future research may benefit from using untraditional approaches found in the business literature.

Green Digital Enterprise and Chaos Theory in Tourism Development

2014 ◽  
pp. 1474-1488
Author(s):  
Ezendu Ariwa ◽  
Carsten Martin Syvertsen
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
Developing Countries ◽  
Tacit Knowledge ◽  
Chaos Theory ◽  
Change Agent ◽  
Tourism Development ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Market Segments ◽  
Digital Enterprise ◽  
Tourism Economy

This paper examines how eco-tourism can be regarded as a change agent in the tourism economy in developing countries. By using conceptual contributions from chaos theory, the authors illustrate how eco-tourism might give competitive advantage, using South Africa as the empirical setting. Destinations focusing on chaos theory when organizing their efforts within eco-tourism may be able to tailor make services to well-defined market segments through the use of tacit knowledge. Future research may benefit from using untraditional approaches found in the business literature.

scholarly journals Men serving long-term sentences in Zonderwater Correctional Centre, South Africa: Religious identity and behavioural change

2019 ◽  
Vol 75 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Christina Landman ◽  
Harold J. Ncongwane ◽  
Tanya Pieterse
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
Social Identity Theory ◽  
Religious Identity ◽  
Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis ◽  
Behavioural Change ◽  
Religious Identities ◽  
Male Offenders ◽  
The Social ◽  
Management Area

This article retrieves the voices of a group of incarcerated men speaking on their religious identity and the behavioural changes ensuing from their religious choices. Research data were collected over a 10-month period from participants that consisted of a group of 30 male offenders serving life or long-term sentences at the Correctional Centre A, Zonderwater Management Area in Cullinan near Pretoria, South Africa. Qualitative research by means of an interview schedule invited offenders to share their thoughts on how their religious beliefs and experiences served as a support system during incarceration. Insight was gained into how religious identities were established to maintain a sense of belonging and hope during this period. The study embraces the Social Identity Theory that departs from the premise that individuals have multiple identities associated with the environment they live and operate in. Interpretative phenomenological analysis was used to understand the shaping of religious identity within the four themes that were identified: conserving identities; accommodating identities; contra-identities; and change of behaviour, attitudes and values. Research on religious identities operationalising into behavioural change provides knowledge to disciplines such as psychology, sociology and theology, and assists the correctional services in understanding the complex and dynamic nature of offenders when they voice themselves outside of their crimes.

scholarly journals Making Community-Based Adaptation a Reality: Different Conceptualisations, Different Politics

2019 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
pp. 50-63
Author(s):  
Mary Galvin
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
Participatory Research ◽  
Change Agent ◽  
Local Communities ◽  
Community Based ◽  
Research Project ◽  
Technical Practice ◽  
Community Based Adaptation

Community-based adaptation (CBA) is criticised for ignoring power realities and damaging the very communities it aims to assist. This paper shows how CBA is not a homogenous, technical practice but is itself a political endeavour. It suggests that there are five types of CBA, based on actors’ conceptualisation of communities, approach to development, and interest in either transition or transformation. It then focuses on how the “change agent” type of CBA can overcome this critique. It draws on findings from a three year, multi-disciplinary, participatory research project on water and CBA in four local communities in South Africa.

Green Digital Enterprise and Chaos Theory in Tourism Development

2010 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 40-52 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ezendu Ariwa ◽  
Carsten Martin Syvertsen
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
Developing Countries ◽  
Competitive Advantage ◽  
Tacit Knowledge ◽  
Chaos Theory ◽  
Change Agent ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Market Segments ◽  
Digital Enterprise ◽  
Tourism Economy

This paper examines how eco-tourism can be regarded as a change agent in the tourism economy in developing countries. By using conceptual contributions from chaos theory, the authors illustrate how eco-tourism might give competitive advantage, using South Africa as the empirical setting. Destinations focusing on chaos theory when organizing their efforts within eco-tourism may be able to tailor make services to well-defined market segments through the use of tacit knowledge. Future research may benefit from using untraditional approaches found in the business literature.

Time and Latitude in South Africa

1972 ◽  
Vol 1 ◽  
pp. 27-38
Author(s):  
J. Hers
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
Cape Town ◽  
Astronomical Observations ◽  
Royal Observatory ◽  
The Republic ◽  
Astronomical Determination ◽  
Limited Accuracy ◽  
Better Than

In South Africa the modern outlook towards time may be said to have started in 1948. Both the two major observatories, The Royal Observatory in Cape Town and the Union Observatory (now known as the Republic Observatory) in Johannesburg had, of course, been involved in the astronomical determination of time almost from their inception, and the Johannesburg Observatory has been responsible for the official time of South Africa since 1908. However the pendulum clocks then in use could not be relied on to provide an accuracy better than about 1/10 second, which was of the same order as that of the astronomical observations. It is doubtful if much use was made of even this limited accuracy outside the two observatories, and although there may – occasionally have been a demand for more accurate time, it was certainly not voiced.

Combining Professional Interests and Travel: People to People Citizen Ambassador Program

2011 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
pp. 47-54
Author(s):  
Alex Johnson ◽  
Amanda Hitchins
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
Health Education ◽  
Communication Disorders ◽  
Social Conditions ◽  
Speech Language Pathologists ◽  
Exchange Program

Abstract This article summarizes a series of trips sponsored by People to People, a professional exchange program. The trips described in this report were led by the first author of this article and include trips to South Africa, Russia, Vietnam and Cambodia, and Israel. Each of these trips included delegations of 25 to 50 speech-language pathologists and audiologists who participated in professional visits to learn of the health, education, and social conditions in each country. Additionally, opportunities to meet with communication disorders professionals, students, and persons with speech, language, or hearing disabilities were included. People to People, partnered with the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA), provides a meaningful and interesting way to learn and travel with colleagues.

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