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Socratic Metaethics Imagined [PDF]
, 2017 This is an imagined dialogue between one of the more famous skeptics regarding moral attribution, Thrasymachus, and an imagined Socrates who, through the convenient miracle of time travel, returns to Athens after exposure to contemporary metaethics, now ...
Ross, Steven, Warenski, Lisa
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Brain Drain and Productivity Growth: Evidence From South Africa, 1947–2019
Economics of Transition and Institutional Change, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This paper provides empirical evidence of how high‐level human capital outflow could affect TFP‐based economic development and vice versa. The concern of potential endogeneity between brain drain and economic development is addressed directly.
Johannes Fedderke, Xiaodi Dong
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‘Kicking Sand in the Face of Apartheid’: Segregated Beaches in South Africa
Bulletin of Geography. Socio-Economic Series, 2017 This article makes a contribution to address the overwhelming ‘present-mindedness’ of tourism geography scholarship. Using a range of archival sources an analysis is undertaken of the rise and demise of racial segregation on South Africa’s beaches during
Rogerson Jayne M.
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The aesthetic sublime of megaproject structures: A framework and a research agenda
European Management Review, EarlyView.Abstract The physical structures of megaprojects—such as mega‐canals, metros, railway lines, bridges, tunnels, and iconic opera houses—hold a profound capacity to generate aesthetic experiences with enduring societal impact. Yet, research on megaprojects has predominantly focused on functionality and economic rationale with aesthetics being pushed to ...
Federica De Molli +2 more
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Is There Such a Thing as a Post-Apartheid City? [PDF]
In an introductory section, this paper considers briefly the achievements and problems of urban governance in post-apartheid South Africa through an assessment of three categories: administrative reform, developmental issues and conflicts over service ...
Freund, Bill
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Biko on non-white and black: improving social reality [PDF]
, 2018 This paper examines Steve Biko’s distinction between black and non-white as a project in the “amelioration” of social concepts and categories. Biko himself—it has been persuasively argued by Mabogo More and Lewis Gordon—writes in the tradition of ...
Epstein, Brian
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Last of the JEDI's: “Coloured” Women's Active Representation in Apartheid's Public Education Sector
Gender, Work &Organization, EarlyView.ABSTRACT The South African apartheid regime racially organized society into race categories—one being “Coloured” to denote people of mixed‐race heritage. The term “Coloured,” even in contemporary South Africa, is a contentious categorization given the racist legacy of apartheid. This article documents the lives of “Coloured” women who struggled against
Karen Johnston
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Connections between post-1994 Health Care and Street-level Bureaucracy
The ThinkerPerformance metrics continue to be a useful tool for modifying bureaucratic procedures in the workplace, although the majority of bureaucracy research and intervention has been centred on increasing efficiency.
Quincy Pule
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Animus of the Underling: Theorizing City Diplomacy in a World Society [PDF]
, 2018 This article explores the nature of city diplomacy using newly available archives chronicling the ‘municipal foreign policy movement’ of the 1980s, in which US city governments intervened directly in late Cold War foreign affairs issues.
Leffel, Benjamin
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Gender, Work &Organization, EarlyView.ABSTRACT The infrastructure of precarious work is racialized and gendered, affecting disenfranchised Black women who carry the burden of low paid caregiving within the healthcare system. In South Africa, Community Health Workers, predominantly Black women from marginalized communities, have been vital in providing primary healthcare services at home ...
Sivuyisiwe Wonci
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