scholarly journals A GLOBAL PERSPECTIVE ON RACIAL AND LINGUISTIC INTEGRATIONIN SOUTH AFRICAN CHRISTIAN CONGREGATIONS

1999 ◽  
pp. 619-651
Author(s):  
Dawid Venter
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
Qualitative Methods ◽  
South African ◽  
Formal Language ◽  
Institutional Isomorphism ◽  
Global Perspective ◽  
Institutional Factors ◽  
Linguistic Integration ◽  
Cultural Incorporation ◽  
Christian Congregations

This is a study that uses data from a national survey of multicultural and multilingual Christian congregations in South Africa to examine the institutional factors that support the dominance of English in formerly segregated churches without a formal language policy. Data were collected by qualitative methods on the levels and types of linguistic integration (as well as racial and cultural incorporation) in each of 60 congregations from nine Christian denominations across South Africa. The patterns found are best explained in terms of the articulation of formal and popular ideologies that contribute to institutional isomorphism across state and civil institutions.

scholarly journals Trends in behavioural ecology: Putting South African research in a global perspective

2018 ◽  
Vol 114 (5/6) ◽  
Author(s):  
Aliza le Roux
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
South African ◽  
Animal Cognition ◽  
Leading Edge ◽  
Global Perspective ◽  
Behavioural Ecology ◽  
Global Trends ◽  
Publication Patterns ◽  
Global Priority ◽  
Local Research

South Africa remains at the leading edge of scientific publishing on the African continent, yet few analyses of publication patterns exist outside the biomedical field. Considering the large number of protected areas and mammalian guilds within the country, I examined trends in South African ecological research as it pertains to the behaviour of mammals. I assessed the topics and taxonomic focus of mammalogists at South African institutes over the span of 15 years (2001–2015), and contrasted local research with the shifting focus of international behavioural research. This review of more than 1000 publications indicates that South African based researchers exhibit a strong tendency towards field-based research, as opposed to laboratory-centred experiments. In terms of topical focus, local ecologists place significant weight on the behavioural categories of mating, social and foraging behaviour – reflecting a global priority for these topics. This finding contrasts with an increased emphasis on animal cognition and communication research in the international research arena, including field-based studies on these themes. I make suggestions on how behavioural ecologists in South Africa can align themselves with global trends while also continuing to distinguish those facets that make South African behavioural ecology unique.

Scarcity as a means of governing: Challenging neoliberal hydromentality in the context of the South African drought

2019 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 186-206 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sofie Hellberg
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
South African ◽  
Water Scarcity ◽  
Water Allocation ◽  
Water Governance ◽  
Physical Phenomenon ◽  
Institutional Factors ◽  
Current Crisis ◽  
Long Time

This article investigates the role of scarcity in water governance with a particular focus on South Africa. It applies a (green) governmentality perspective and argues that in neoliberal hydromentality scarcity is used as a regulatory device that governs people's water access. In South Africa, water governance and water scarcity have for a long time been central to the construction of a particular state with particular social purposes. While scarcity in the post-apartheid period has mainly been used as a means of governing the poor, the role of scarcity has in the recent water crisis been transformed; scarcity has increasingly become a material concern for all of society. Notwithstanding that the crisis is due not only to the lack of rain but also to political and institutional factors, it has, in media and policy circles, involved a preoccupation with scarcity as a physical phenomenon. Such a preoccupation risks obscuring the reasons why poorer populations have long suffered from the lack of water. At the same time, the article contends, the current crisis presents South Africa with an opportunity for revisiting water scarcity as a technology of governing in creating a more sustainable and equitable water allocation.

scholarly journals Understanding South African Xenophobia Through the Prism of J. M. Coetzee’s Summertime ‘Scenes from a Provincial Life’

2017 ◽  
Vol 50 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 69-82
Author(s):  
Polona Zajec
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
South African ◽  
Postcolonial Studies ◽  
Global Perspective ◽  
The Other ◽  
African Society ◽  
Political Issue ◽  
African Migrants ◽  
Pan African ◽  
Cultural Responses

The xenophobic violence and discrimination that greets African migrants in post-apartheid South Africa highlights a social and political issue that threatens the idea(l) of the open pan-African society. The article looks at this xenophobia through the lens of J. M. Coetzee fictionalized memoir Summertime ‘Scenes from a Provincial Life’ and tries to develop a new understanding of South Africa’s relationship to the African ‘other’ – or to the ‘other’ Africa, relevant not only in the context of postcolonial studies but also in a more global perspective on social and cultural responses to processes of migration.

Impediments to the adoption of alternative sewerage in South African urban informal settlements

2011 ◽  
Vol 64 (9) ◽  
pp. 1781-1789 ◽  
Author(s):  
N. Ashipala ◽  
N. P. Armitage
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
South African ◽  
Disease Burden ◽  
Informal Settlements ◽  
Institutional Factors ◽  
Poor People ◽  
Marginal Land ◽  
Urban Drainage ◽  
Substantial Growth ◽  
Urban Informal Settlements

In recent decades South Africa has witnessed a substantial growth in its urban population. This growth has been accompanied by the mushrooming of informal settlements (shantytowns) flanking more formal development. The lack of adequate urban drainage in many of these informal settlements has resulted in extremely polluted environments which add to the disease burden of the poor people who live there. In many instances, informal settlements in South Africa are established on marginal land that is inherently difficult to service using conventional gravity sewerage. International experience has shown that various alternative wastewater collection systems may present more appropriate ways of providing water-borne sewerage in areas that are difficult to service by conventional means. Alternative sewerage schemes have however had a poor record of success in South African informal settlements – primarily stemming from the implementing agencies' failure to adequately address various social and institutional factors. In this paper, a review of South African experiences with simplified sewerage, settled sewerage and vacuum sewerage in urban informal settlements is used to highlight the key constraints that currently impede the application of these technologies.

Towards a More Socially Responsive Psychology

1981 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
pp. 18-28 ◽  
Author(s):  
D.J.W. Strumpfer
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
Qualitative Methods ◽  
South African ◽  
Inductive Inference ◽  
Research Strategies ◽  
Short Run ◽  
Socially Relevant ◽  
Socially Responsive ◽  
Psychological Knowledge ◽  
Quantitative And Qualitative Methods

The South African situation provides exceptional opportunities for socially relevant activities by psychologists. Research strategies that seem likely to advance psychology faster and more validly, are: better use of inductive inference, more short-run empiricism, greater use of qualitative methods, greater use of combined quantitative and qualitative methods, and approaching subjects as co-inquiring participants. The question is discussed whether present psychological knowledge warrants application, and ways in which psychologists can assist in application are mentioned. Lastly, some examples are given of the kind of application of which we need more in South Africa.

ANT Perspective of Healthcare Big Data for Service Delivery in South Africa

2022 ◽  
pp. 1071-1089
Author(s):  
Tiko Iyamu ◽  
Sibulela Mgudlwa
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
Big Data ◽  
Service Delivery ◽  
Qualitative Methods ◽  
South African ◽  
Rural Areas ◽  
Healthcare Service ◽  
Qualitative Data ◽  
Actor Network Theory ◽  
Healthcare Facility

In South Africa, there has been for many years challenges in how healthcare big data are accessed, used, and managed by facilities, particularly the small health facilities. The challenges arise from inaccuracy and inconsistency of patients' data and have impact on diagnoses, medications, and treatments, which consequently contributes to fatalities in South Africa, particularly in the rural areas of the country. The problem of inaccuracy and inconsistency of patients' data is often caused by lack of or poor analysis (or analytics) of data. Thus, the objective of this research was to understand the factors that influence the use and management of patients' big data for healthcare service delivery. The qualitative methods were applied, and a South African healthcare facility was used as a case in the study. Actor network theory (ANT) was employed as a lens to guide the analysis of the qualitative data. Based on the findings from the analysis, a model was developed, which is intended to guide analytics of big data for healthcare purposes, towards improving service delivery in the country.

BUILDING THE SOUTH AFRICAN NATION THROUGH LEGAL DEPOSIT IN TIMES OF RAPID CLIMATE CHANGE: THE STRUCTURAL DESIGN OF MSUNDUZI MUNICIPAL LIBRARY BUILDING

Mousaion ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 34 (3) ◽  
pp. 104-122
Author(s):  
Zawedde Nsibirwa
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
South Africa ◽  
Qualitative Methods ◽  
Conceptual Framework ◽  
South African ◽  
Structural Design ◽  
International Organization ◽  
African Nation ◽  
Rapid Climate Change ◽  
Quantitative And Qualitative Methods

This article examines the structural design of a legal depository as the building is the cultural materials’ main line of defence against drastic changes in climate. A conceptual framework using the International Organization for Standardization (ISO) International Standard (11799:2003) for ‘Information and documentation – Document storage requirements for archive and library materials’, and the Society of American Archivists (SAA 2008) ‘Guidelines for archivists, librarians, architects, and engineers’ were used to examine the different building facets of the Msunduzi Municipal Library, Pietermaritzburg, South Africa. Using a three-phased approach, quantitative and qualitative methods and tools were used to collect data over a period of time. As a way forward, the study recommends the adaption of various elements of the building in order to moderate and prevent further damage of the building and the documentary heritage.

The promotion of linguistic diversity in multilingual settings

2001 ◽  
Vol 25 (1) ◽  
pp. 51-72 ◽  
Author(s):  
Timothy Reagan
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
Language Policy ◽  
South African ◽  
Linguistic Diversity ◽  
Language Planning ◽  
The South ◽  
Recent Developments ◽  
Linguistic Integration ◽  
African Context ◽  
International Issues

The South African case raises a number of important issues of concern for those interested in language policy and language planning: issues of multilingualism, linguistic diversity, linguistic integration, linguistic equity, and language rights. South Africa is fascinating for those interested in matters of language because it is characterized by elements of both the ‘developed’ and the ‘developing’ worlds, and thus, to some extent, provides us with a microcosm of the broader international issues related to language. In the years since the 1994 election, South Africa has begun seriously and thoughtfully to address many of the challenges related to language and language policy that will face virtually all societies in the next century. Its experiences in this regard are both telling and significant, and have far broader implications for other societies. This article provides a brief discussion of the historical use of language policy and language planning in the South African context, and explores recent developments in South Africa with respect to language policy. Finally, it identifies and discusses possible lessons for efforts to promote linguistic diversity in multilingual settings.

Book Reviews

2012 ◽  
Vol 9 (3) ◽  
pp. 289-296
Author(s):  
Elizabeth Allen ◽  
Evinc Dogan ◽  
Anna Hjalm ◽  
Ibrahim Sirkeci ◽  
Bradley Saunders
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Qualitative Methods ◽  
Labour Market ◽  
Global Perspective ◽  
Migration Studies ◽  
Ashgate Publishing

Helen Vella Bonavita (ed.), Negotiating Identities: Constructed Selves and Oth-ers, Amsterdam and New York: Rodopi, 2011, 217 pp., (ISBN: 978-90-420-3400-6) (pa-per).Theodoros Iosifides, Qualitative Methods in Migration Studies, A Critical Real-ist Perspective, Oxford: Ashgate Publishing, 2011, 278 pp., (ISBN13: 978-1-4094-0222-0), (paper).Puschmann, Paul, Casablanca. A Demographic Miracle on Moroccan Soil?, Leuven: Acco Academic, 2011, 170 pp., (ISBN13: 9789033480683), (paper).Myna German and Padmini Banerjee (eds.), Migration, Technology, and Transculturation: a Global Perspective, St Charles, MO, USA: Lindenwood University Press, 2011, 288 pp., (ISBN13: 978-0984630745), (paper).  Reza Hasmath, The Ethnic Penalty: Immigration, Education and the Labour Market, Burlington, VT and Surrey, UK: Ashgate (2012) 130pp. (ISBN 978-1-4094-0211-4).   

Reframing Xenophobia in South Africa as Colour-Blind: The Limits of the Afro Phobia Thesis

2020 ◽  
Vol 17 (3) ◽  
pp. 433-444
Author(s):  
Amanuel Isak Tewolde
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
South African ◽  
Analytical Framework ◽  
Conflict Theory ◽  
Black African ◽  
South Africans ◽  
Theoretical Perspectives ◽  
Online Newspaper ◽  
Close Proximity ◽  
Realistic Conflict Theory

Many scholars and South African politicians characterize the widespread anti-foreigner sentiment and violence in South Africa as dislike against migrants and refugees of African origin which they named ‘Afro-phobia’. Drawing on online newspaper reports and academic sources, this paper rejects the Afro-phobia thesis and argues that other non-African migrants such as Asians (Pakistanis, Indians, Bangladeshis and Chinese) are also on the receiving end of xenophobia in post-apartheid South Africa. I contend that any ‘outsider’ (White, Asian or Black African) who lives and trades in South African townships and informal settlements is scapegoated and attacked. I term this phenomenon ‘colour-blind xenophobia’. By proposing this analytical framework and integrating two theoretical perspectives — proximity-based ‘Realistic Conflict Theory (RCT)’ and Neocosmos’ exclusivist citizenship model — I contend that xenophobia in South Africa targets those who are in close proximity to disadvantaged Black South Africans and who are deemed outsiders (e.g., Asian, African even White residents and traders) and reject arguments that describe xenophobia in South Africa as targeting Black African refugees and migrants.

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