Cosmolocal orientations: trickster spatialization and the politics of cultural bargaining in Zambia
- Authors: Simbao, Ruth K
- Date: 2019
- Language: English
- Type: text , article
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/146044 , vital:38490 , DOI 10.1080/19301944.2018.1532379
- Description: The spatialization of Africa is fraught, and places within Africa tend to be stereotyped by geographies of morality and simplistic rural/urban divides. Focusing on the spatial, cultural, and political bargaining of contemporary chiefs and cultural festivals in 21st-century Zambia, this article delinks cosmopolitanism and Afropolitanism from the city and associated attitudes of urbanity. Positioning place as a trickster character, it argues for a nuanced understanding of time-space imaginaries that refuses to bind people and identities to closed-down notions of place. In this article I propose the term cosmolocal, suggesting that the cosmolocal is an outward-engaging orientation that understands place as a profoundly discursive and situational process and that has the potential to exist anywhere. Many contemporary chiefs in Zambia embrace cosmolocalism, enabling them to escape the limitations of being viewed merely as custodians of culture who are limited to the space of the village framed historically as the warehouse of culture.
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- Authors: Simbao, Ruth K
- Date: 2019
- Language: English
- Type: text , article
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/146044 , vital:38490 , DOI 10.1080/19301944.2018.1532379
- Description: The spatialization of Africa is fraught, and places within Africa tend to be stereotyped by geographies of morality and simplistic rural/urban divides. Focusing on the spatial, cultural, and political bargaining of contemporary chiefs and cultural festivals in 21st-century Zambia, this article delinks cosmopolitanism and Afropolitanism from the city and associated attitudes of urbanity. Positioning place as a trickster character, it argues for a nuanced understanding of time-space imaginaries that refuses to bind people and identities to closed-down notions of place. In this article I propose the term cosmolocal, suggesting that the cosmolocal is an outward-engaging orientation that understands place as a profoundly discursive and situational process and that has the potential to exist anywhere. Many contemporary chiefs in Zambia embrace cosmolocalism, enabling them to escape the limitations of being viewed merely as custodians of culture who are limited to the space of the village framed historically as the warehouse of culture.
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Language policy and linguistic landscapes at schools in South Africa:
- Kaschula, Russell H, Kretzer, Michael M
- Authors: Kaschula, Russell H , Kretzer, Michael M
- Date: 2019
- Language: English
- Type: text , article
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/174635 , vital:42496 , https://doi.org/10.1080/14790718.2019.1666849
- Description: Language policy and Linguistic Landscapes (LL) are a highly contested area in South Africa. Due to Apartheid, the education system constitutes the core of such contestation. In Post-Apartheid South Africa the new Constitution of 1996, the South African Schools Act (SASA) and recent political initiatives such as the Use of Official Languages Act of 2012 form the foundation of language policy at schools. The Constitution declares 11 official languages on a macro-level. Nevertheless, English dominates the LL in South Africa. African Languages are significantly underrepresented in the public sphere. The vast majority of research emphasises the urban or semi-urban areas. This research tries to close the existing research gap with a broad comparative study in three research provinces.
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- Authors: Kaschula, Russell H , Kretzer, Michael M
- Date: 2019
- Language: English
- Type: text , article
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/174635 , vital:42496 , https://doi.org/10.1080/14790718.2019.1666849
- Description: Language policy and Linguistic Landscapes (LL) are a highly contested area in South Africa. Due to Apartheid, the education system constitutes the core of such contestation. In Post-Apartheid South Africa the new Constitution of 1996, the South African Schools Act (SASA) and recent political initiatives such as the Use of Official Languages Act of 2012 form the foundation of language policy at schools. The Constitution declares 11 official languages on a macro-level. Nevertheless, English dominates the LL in South Africa. African Languages are significantly underrepresented in the public sphere. The vast majority of research emphasises the urban or semi-urban areas. This research tries to close the existing research gap with a broad comparative study in three research provinces.
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Specialization codes: Knowledge, knowers and student success
- Maton, Karl, Chen , Rainbow Tsai-Hung
- Authors: Maton, Karl , Chen , Rainbow Tsai-Hung
- Date: 2019
- Subjects: To be catalogued
- Language: English
- Type: text , book chapter
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/445910 , vital:74441 , ISBN 9780429280726 , https://www.taylorfrancis.com/chapters/edit/10.4324/9780429280726-2/specialization-codes-karl-maton-rainbow-tsai-hung-chen
- Description: This chapter introduces concepts from Legitimation Code Theory (LCT) that launched the productive cross-disciplinary dialogue with systemic functional linguistics (SFL) and which have become central to research using the two frameworks to explore education. The concepts are from the LCT dimension of Specialization, specifically ‘specialization codes’. The chapter illustrates these ideas through showing how the concepts allow research to explain why some students are more successful than others by exploring the dispositions students bring to education, the nature of the knowledge practices they encounter in their studies, and how these relate together to shape their experiences. The example explored draws on a major study of Chinese students who attended higher education in Australia. The chapter analyses the dispositions the students brought and the teaching practices of their educators, and show how these represented a ‘code clash’ between two different ways of measuring achievement. As a result, students struggled to successfully access academic discourse.
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- Authors: Maton, Karl , Chen , Rainbow Tsai-Hung
- Date: 2019
- Subjects: To be catalogued
- Language: English
- Type: text , book chapter
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/445910 , vital:74441 , ISBN 9780429280726 , https://www.taylorfrancis.com/chapters/edit/10.4324/9780429280726-2/specialization-codes-karl-maton-rainbow-tsai-hung-chen
- Description: This chapter introduces concepts from Legitimation Code Theory (LCT) that launched the productive cross-disciplinary dialogue with systemic functional linguistics (SFL) and which have become central to research using the two frameworks to explore education. The concepts are from the LCT dimension of Specialization, specifically ‘specialization codes’. The chapter illustrates these ideas through showing how the concepts allow research to explain why some students are more successful than others by exploring the dispositions students bring to education, the nature of the knowledge practices they encounter in their studies, and how these relate together to shape their experiences. The example explored draws on a major study of Chinese students who attended higher education in Australia. The chapter analyses the dispositions the students brought and the teaching practices of their educators, and show how these represented a ‘code clash’ between two different ways of measuring achievement. As a result, students struggled to successfully access academic discourse.
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Wild edible fruits: A systematic review of an under-researched multifunctional NTFP (non-timber forest product)
- Sardeshpande, Mallika, Shackleton, Charlie M
- Authors: Sardeshpande, Mallika , Shackleton, Charlie M
- Date: 2019
- Language: English
- Type: text , article
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/177752 , vital:42856 , https://doi.org/10.3390/f10060467
- Description: Wild edible fruits (WEFs) are among the most widely used non-timber forest products (NTFPs), and important sources of nutrition, medicine, and income for their users. In addition to their use as food, WEF species may also yield fiber, fuel, and a range of processed products. Besides forests, WEF species also thrive in diverse environments, such as agroforestry and urban landscapes, deserts, fallows, natural lands, and plantations. Given the multifunctional, ubiquitous nature of WEFs, we conducted a systematic review on the literature specific to WEFs and highlighted links between different domains of the wider knowledge on NTFPs.
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- Authors: Sardeshpande, Mallika , Shackleton, Charlie M
- Date: 2019
- Language: English
- Type: text , article
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/177752 , vital:42856 , https://doi.org/10.3390/f10060467
- Description: Wild edible fruits (WEFs) are among the most widely used non-timber forest products (NTFPs), and important sources of nutrition, medicine, and income for their users. In addition to their use as food, WEF species may also yield fiber, fuel, and a range of processed products. Besides forests, WEF species also thrive in diverse environments, such as agroforestry and urban landscapes, deserts, fallows, natural lands, and plantations. Given the multifunctional, ubiquitous nature of WEFs, we conducted a systematic review on the literature specific to WEFs and highlighted links between different domains of the wider knowledge on NTFPs.
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