Breaking the Rules: Zodwa Wabantu and postfeminism in South Africa
- Authors: Boshoff, Priscilla A
- Date: 2021
- Language: English
- Type: text , article
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/177408 , vital:42819 , http://dx.doi.org/10.17645/mac.v9i2.3830
- Description: Zodwa Wabantu, a South African celebrity recently made popular by the Daily Sun, a local tabloid newspaper, is notorious as an older working-class woman who fearlessly challenges social norms of feminine respectability and beauty. Her assertion of sexual autonomy and her forays into self-surveillance and body-modification, mediated by the Daily Sun and other tabloid and social media platforms, could be read as a local iteration of a global postfeminist subjectivity. However, the widespread social opprobrium she faces must be accounted for: Using Connell’s model of the gender order together with a coloniality frame, I argue that northern critiques of postfeminism omit to consider the forms of patriarchy established by colonialism in southern locales such as South Africa. The local patriarchal gender order, made visible within the tabloid reportage, provides the context within which the meaning of Zodwa Wabanu’s contemporary postfeminist identity is constructed. I examine a range of Zodwa Wabantu’s (self)representations in Daily Sun and other digital media in the light of this context, and conclude that a close examination of the local gender order assists in understanding the limits of postfeminism’s hegemony.
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- Authors: Boshoff, Priscilla A
- Date: 2021
- Language: English
- Type: text , article
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/177408 , vital:42819 , http://dx.doi.org/10.17645/mac.v9i2.3830
- Description: Zodwa Wabantu, a South African celebrity recently made popular by the Daily Sun, a local tabloid newspaper, is notorious as an older working-class woman who fearlessly challenges social norms of feminine respectability and beauty. Her assertion of sexual autonomy and her forays into self-surveillance and body-modification, mediated by the Daily Sun and other tabloid and social media platforms, could be read as a local iteration of a global postfeminist subjectivity. However, the widespread social opprobrium she faces must be accounted for: Using Connell’s model of the gender order together with a coloniality frame, I argue that northern critiques of postfeminism omit to consider the forms of patriarchy established by colonialism in southern locales such as South Africa. The local patriarchal gender order, made visible within the tabloid reportage, provides the context within which the meaning of Zodwa Wabanu’s contemporary postfeminist identity is constructed. I examine a range of Zodwa Wabantu’s (self)representations in Daily Sun and other digital media in the light of this context, and conclude that a close examination of the local gender order assists in understanding the limits of postfeminism’s hegemony.
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Ecological patterns and effectiveness of protected areas in the preservation of Mimusops species’ habitats under climate change
- Sinasson, Gisèle K S, Shackleton, Charlie M, Teka, Oscar, Sinsin, Brice
- Authors: Sinasson, Gisèle K S , Shackleton, Charlie M , Teka, Oscar , Sinsin, Brice
- Date: 2021
- Language: English
- Type: text , article
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/175812 , vital:42626 , https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gecco.2021.e01527 , https://researchdata.ru.ac.za/search?q=:keyword: "Gap analysis"
- Description: Understanding the niche and habitat requirements of useful and threatened species, their shifts under climate change and how well protected areas (PAs) preserve these habitats is relevant for guiding sustainable management actions. Here we assessed the ecological factors underlying the distribution of two multipurpose and threatened species, Mimusops andongensis and M. kummel, in Benin, and potential changes in the suitable habitats covered by PAs, under climate change scenarios. Fifty seven occurrence points were collected for M. andongensis and 81 for M. kummel.
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- Authors: Sinasson, Gisèle K S , Shackleton, Charlie M , Teka, Oscar , Sinsin, Brice
- Date: 2021
- Language: English
- Type: text , article
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/175812 , vital:42626 , https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gecco.2021.e01527 , https://researchdata.ru.ac.za/search?q=:keyword: "Gap analysis"
- Description: Understanding the niche and habitat requirements of useful and threatened species, their shifts under climate change and how well protected areas (PAs) preserve these habitats is relevant for guiding sustainable management actions. Here we assessed the ecological factors underlying the distribution of two multipurpose and threatened species, Mimusops andongensis and M. kummel, in Benin, and potential changes in the suitable habitats covered by PAs, under climate change scenarios. Fifty seven occurrence points were collected for M. andongensis and 81 for M. kummel.
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Implications of static and dynamic effects of economic integration for investment inflows and outflows using theories on industrial location: A theoretical debate
- Authors: Mutambara, Tsitsi E
- Date: 2021
- Subjects: To be catalogued
- Language: English
- Type: text , article
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/477820 , vital:78127 , https://ijbel.com/previous-issues/april-june-and-august-2021/vol-24-august-2021-issue-6/
- Description: Both the static and dynamic effects of economic integration have implications for investment inflows into a regional group, as well as relocation of investment by firms already domiciled in the regional group. Therefore, economic integration theory has become increasingly concerned about the locational effects of economic integration arrangements, thus giving rise to the growing interest by trade theorists in the importance of geography. New models of trade which incorporate factor mobility, external economies of scale and product competition, have established the importance of location in the analysis of the effects of economic integration arrangements. This research article therefore seeks to examine the implications of economic integration for industry location given the various theoretical debates with regard to locational choices of industries. This is done by reviewing theoretical arguments based on the Traditional theory of industrial location, the Marshallian theory, the theory of New economic geography, Weber’s theory and Dunning’s ownership, location and internalisation (OLI) theory. Arguments are thus presented to illustrate and explain how the static and dynamic effects of economic integration motivate industry location by creating the locational factors which the respective industry location theories present as key determinants for industry location. By examining the interplay between the key locational factors in the various theories and the static and dynamic effect of economic integration, this study shows that by viewing the theories of industrial location theories separately, each theory alone cannot answer adequately the question of industrial location and even agglomeration, despite highlighting and clarifying relevant factors. Therefore, the various theories must be integrated in order to understand the dynamics with which economic integration has implications for investment flows.
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- Authors: Mutambara, Tsitsi E
- Date: 2021
- Subjects: To be catalogued
- Language: English
- Type: text , article
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/477820 , vital:78127 , https://ijbel.com/previous-issues/april-june-and-august-2021/vol-24-august-2021-issue-6/
- Description: Both the static and dynamic effects of economic integration have implications for investment inflows into a regional group, as well as relocation of investment by firms already domiciled in the regional group. Therefore, economic integration theory has become increasingly concerned about the locational effects of economic integration arrangements, thus giving rise to the growing interest by trade theorists in the importance of geography. New models of trade which incorporate factor mobility, external economies of scale and product competition, have established the importance of location in the analysis of the effects of economic integration arrangements. This research article therefore seeks to examine the implications of economic integration for industry location given the various theoretical debates with regard to locational choices of industries. This is done by reviewing theoretical arguments based on the Traditional theory of industrial location, the Marshallian theory, the theory of New economic geography, Weber’s theory and Dunning’s ownership, location and internalisation (OLI) theory. Arguments are thus presented to illustrate and explain how the static and dynamic effects of economic integration motivate industry location by creating the locational factors which the respective industry location theories present as key determinants for industry location. By examining the interplay between the key locational factors in the various theories and the static and dynamic effect of economic integration, this study shows that by viewing the theories of industrial location theories separately, each theory alone cannot answer adequately the question of industrial location and even agglomeration, despite highlighting and clarifying relevant factors. Therefore, the various theories must be integrated in order to understand the dynamics with which economic integration has implications for investment flows.
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Interviews and surveys
- Shackleton, Sheona E, Bezerra, Joana C, Cockburn, Jessica J, Reed, Maureen G, Abu, Razak
- Authors: Shackleton, Sheona E , Bezerra, Joana C , Cockburn, Jessica J , Reed, Maureen G , Abu, Razak
- Date: 2021
- Subjects: To be catalogued
- Language: English
- Type: text , book chapter
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/433914 , vital:73009 , ISBN 9781000401516 , https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/49560
- Description: This chapter is closely related to the following approaches and methods in this handbook: systems scoping (Chapter 5), participatory data collection (Chapter 8), facilitated dialogues (Chapter 9), futures analysis (Chapter 10), qualitative content analysis (Chapter 19), comparative case study analysis (Chapter 20), institutional analysis (Chapter 22), network analysis (Chapter 23), spatial mapping and analysis (Chapter 24), historical assessment (Chapter 25), and livelihood and vulnerability analysis (Chapter 32).
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- Authors: Shackleton, Sheona E , Bezerra, Joana C , Cockburn, Jessica J , Reed, Maureen G , Abu, Razak
- Date: 2021
- Subjects: To be catalogued
- Language: English
- Type: text , book chapter
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/433914 , vital:73009 , ISBN 9781000401516 , https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/49560
- Description: This chapter is closely related to the following approaches and methods in this handbook: systems scoping (Chapter 5), participatory data collection (Chapter 8), facilitated dialogues (Chapter 9), futures analysis (Chapter 10), qualitative content analysis (Chapter 19), comparative case study analysis (Chapter 20), institutional analysis (Chapter 22), network analysis (Chapter 23), spatial mapping and analysis (Chapter 24), historical assessment (Chapter 25), and livelihood and vulnerability analysis (Chapter 32).
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Local use and knowledge of Hyphaene coriacea and Phoenix reclinata in Zitundo area, southern Mozambique:
- Martins, Angelina R O, Shackleton, Charlie M
- Authors: Martins, Angelina R O , Shackleton, Charlie M
- Date: 2021
- Language: English
- Type: text , article
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/175801 , vital:42625 , https://doi.org/10.1016/j.sajb.2020.12.011
- Description: Hyphaene coriacea and Phoenix reclinata are two abundant palm species in the Maputaland coastal plains of southern Mozambique. They provide an array of subsistence and commercial non- timber forest products. This research characterizes the ethnobotanical knowledge and uses of these species. Using structured interviews we assessed the knowledge, past and current uses, cultural importance and the determinants of the knowledge and current uses of these species. The knowledge about the uses of these two palms is widespread, however only 32% of respondents are engaged in palm exploitation. Thirteen palm products are used in the area with palm wine production from the sap of both species being the dominant activity, followed by broom production.
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- Authors: Martins, Angelina R O , Shackleton, Charlie M
- Date: 2021
- Language: English
- Type: text , article
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/175801 , vital:42625 , https://doi.org/10.1016/j.sajb.2020.12.011
- Description: Hyphaene coriacea and Phoenix reclinata are two abundant palm species in the Maputaland coastal plains of southern Mozambique. They provide an array of subsistence and commercial non- timber forest products. This research characterizes the ethnobotanical knowledge and uses of these species. Using structured interviews we assessed the knowledge, past and current uses, cultural importance and the determinants of the knowledge and current uses of these species. The knowledge about the uses of these two palms is widespread, however only 32% of respondents are engaged in palm exploitation. Thirteen palm products are used in the area with palm wine production from the sap of both species being the dominant activity, followed by broom production.
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Supporting Student Teachers to Teach Catchment and River Management in Geography
- Authors: Heath, Gavin , O’Donoghue, R
- Date: 2021
- Subjects: To be catalogued
- Language: English
- Type: text , book chapter
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/435167 , vital:73135 , ISBN 9781928502241 , https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/64082
- Description: The inclusion of new environmental knowledge in the South African Geography Curriculum and Assessment Policy Statement (CAPS) has meant that many student teachers are unprepared to teach a systemic process like catchment and river management, which concerns the management of water catchment basins and the rivers within. New environ-mental knowledge, by definition, involves systems thinking towards a grasp of social-ecological systems, notably cause and effect processes, and circularity within a system. A so-cial-ecological system is the complex relationship between the social and ecological processes on a parcel of land. The need for such systems thinking is implicit in the catchment and river management component of the CAPS (South Africa DBE 2011). The teaching of a case study of a catchment management system (which is the management system that governs a water catchment basin) has never been included in any previous curriculum. Water management has devel-oped on a widening scale into the 21st century in South Afri-ca, but there was little comprehensive data on catchment management systems until 2017. It was only in July 2017 that a draft catchment management strategy was published. Hence it is not surprising that no curriculum case studies ex-ist since there was no data to base them on (Meissner et al. 2017). An internet search in June 2020 uncovered no trace of any catchment management strategy for the more densely populated and, arguably, more significant eastern catch-ments of the country.
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- Authors: Heath, Gavin , O’Donoghue, R
- Date: 2021
- Subjects: To be catalogued
- Language: English
- Type: text , book chapter
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/435167 , vital:73135 , ISBN 9781928502241 , https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/64082
- Description: The inclusion of new environmental knowledge in the South African Geography Curriculum and Assessment Policy Statement (CAPS) has meant that many student teachers are unprepared to teach a systemic process like catchment and river management, which concerns the management of water catchment basins and the rivers within. New environ-mental knowledge, by definition, involves systems thinking towards a grasp of social-ecological systems, notably cause and effect processes, and circularity within a system. A so-cial-ecological system is the complex relationship between the social and ecological processes on a parcel of land. The need for such systems thinking is implicit in the catchment and river management component of the CAPS (South Africa DBE 2011). The teaching of a case study of a catchment management system (which is the management system that governs a water catchment basin) has never been included in any previous curriculum. Water management has devel-oped on a widening scale into the 21st century in South Afri-ca, but there was little comprehensive data on catchment management systems until 2017. It was only in July 2017 that a draft catchment management strategy was published. Hence it is not surprising that no curriculum case studies ex-ist since there was no data to base them on (Meissner et al. 2017). An internet search in June 2020 uncovered no trace of any catchment management strategy for the more densely populated and, arguably, more significant eastern catch-ments of the country.
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The relevance of ecosystem services to land reform policies: Insights from South Africa
- Clements, Hayley S, de Vos, Alta, Bezerra, Joana C, Coetzer, Kaera, Maciejewski, Kristine, Mograbi, Penelope J, Shackleton, Charlie M
- Authors: Clements, Hayley S , de Vos, Alta , Bezerra, Joana C , Coetzer, Kaera , Maciejewski, Kristine , Mograbi, Penelope J , Shackleton, Charlie M
- Date: 2021
- Language: English
- Type: text , article
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/175767 , vital:42622 , https://doi.org/10.1016/j.landusepol.2020.104939
- Description: Land reform is an important socio-political strategy in many countries. Despite the importance of ecosystem health in attaining land reform objectives, human-nature interactions have been largely absent from contemporary land reform discussions. In this perspectives paper, we highlight why land reform programmes could benefit from considering ecosystem services in their planning processes, to better achieve their goals of socio-economic development and equity. Drawing on examples from South Africa, we argue that an ecosystem services lens can help achieve equity in land reform programmes by providing insight into how land-use legacies and the multi-functional nature of landscapes influence who benefits from land reform across space and through time.
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- Authors: Clements, Hayley S , de Vos, Alta , Bezerra, Joana C , Coetzer, Kaera , Maciejewski, Kristine , Mograbi, Penelope J , Shackleton, Charlie M
- Date: 2021
- Language: English
- Type: text , article
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/175767 , vital:42622 , https://doi.org/10.1016/j.landusepol.2020.104939
- Description: Land reform is an important socio-political strategy in many countries. Despite the importance of ecosystem health in attaining land reform objectives, human-nature interactions have been largely absent from contemporary land reform discussions. In this perspectives paper, we highlight why land reform programmes could benefit from considering ecosystem services in their planning processes, to better achieve their goals of socio-economic development and equity. Drawing on examples from South Africa, we argue that an ecosystem services lens can help achieve equity in land reform programmes by providing insight into how land-use legacies and the multi-functional nature of landscapes influence who benefits from land reform across space and through time.
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