Crash Narratives and Accidental Archives: Rethinking Road Safety in South Africa [0.03%]
南非道路安全的叙事与意外档案:重新思考道路安全问题
Rebekah Lee
Rebekah Lee
This article considers the implications of historicising road safety in contemporary South Africa. It offers a critical interrogation of the 'epidemiological turn' evident in recent global road safety campaigns, primarily by 'refiguring' or...
The Hostel Peace Initiative: Rethinking Violence and Peace at the End of Apartheid [0.03%]
后种族隔离时代的暴力与和平问题探究——以宿舍和平计划为例
Franziska Rueedi
Franziska Rueedi
In August 1992, one of the most remarkable peace initiatives was launched in South Africa when two warring migrant worker hostels began negotiating for a truce. The residents of the African National Congress-aligned Selby hostel and the Ink...
Species Extinction, Infrastructure Development and Epidemics: The Changing Ecology of African Horsesickness in the Cape Colony, c. 1653-1900 [0.03%]
物种灭绝、基础设施建设与流行病:约1653-1900年开普殖民地非洲马瘟生态的变迁
Chris Andreas
Chris Andreas
The virus that causes African horsesickness does not affect any indigenous species, but produces high mortality among horses, a species introduced by the Dutch East India Company in 1653. While the insect-borne disease did not occur in the ...
A Coalition for Change? Role Orientations in the 12th Parliament of Botswana [0.03%]
转型的联盟?博茨瓦纳第十二届议会中的角色倾向性
Anja Osei,Batlang Seabo
Anja Osei
Botswana's parliamentary democracy features a weak parliament that is ineffective in law making and executive oversight. Conventional explanations emphasise a dominant party system that emerged following independence, lack of operational in...
Social Positioning of Older Persons in Rural South Africa: Change or Stability? [0.03%]
南非农村老年人的社会定位:变化还是稳定?
Sangeetha Madhavan,Enid Schatz,F Xavier Gómes-Olivé et al.
Sangeetha Madhavan et al.
The South African context challenges the conventional categorisation of older persons as dependent after a certain age. The concurrence of old-age pensions, high unemployment, high HIV prevalence, and frailty related to ageing necessitate a...
"Our struggle is for the full loaf": protests, social welfare and gendered citizenship in South Africa [0.03%]
“我们要整个面包”——南非的抗议、社会福利和性别公民身份
Allison Goebel
Allison Goebel
The waves of popular protest sweeping contemporary South Africa are inadequately explained by anti-globalisation, anti-neoliberal and even anti-government sentiments and analysis. Attention to the gendered dynamics of township life, includi...
"The last thing that tells our story": the Roodepoort West Cemetery, 1958-2008 [0.03%]
“记载我们故事的最后守望者”——罗德波特西墓地(1958—2008)
Michelle Hay
Michelle Hay
This article attempts to capture some of the complexity in the way that memory, meaning and agenda interact in the history of the cemetery of Roodepoort West. Roodepoort West was the 'old location' where Africans and others lived until 1955...
Towards "a different kind of beauty": responses to coal-based pollution in the Witbank coalfield between 1903 and 1948 [0.03%]
从“另一种形式的美”谈起:1903年至1948年威特班克煤田对煤炭污染的应对措施
Michal Singer
Michal Singer
This article assesses the changing conceptions of the environmental impact of South African coal mining in the first half of the twentieth century, with special reference to the Witbank coalfield in the Mpumalanga province of South Africa. ...
"To control their destiny": the politics of home and the feminisation of schooling in colonial Natal, 1885-1910 [0.03%]
“掌控自己的命运”——殖民地纳塔尔女性教育的政治因素(1885-1910)
Meghan Elisabeth Healy
Meghan Elisabeth Healy
This article examines the contradictions that African girls' schooling presented for colonial governance in Natal, through the case study of Inanda Seminary, the region's first and largest all-female school for Africans. While patriarchal c...
Saving the child to save the nation: poverty, whiteness and childhood in the Cape Colony, c.1870-1895 [0.03%]
拯救儿童以拯救国家:开普殖民地的贫困、白人身份和童年(约1870—1895年)
S E Duff
S E Duff
Children were central to efforts to eradicate white impoverishment in the Cape Colony in the late nineteenth century. The education and training of poor, white children were believed to be the most effective ways of breaking cycles of pover...