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An Ordeal of Peoplehood: Indigenous Australians and the Debates over Sovereignty, Treaty, and Voice

open access: yesAustralian Journal of Politics &History, EarlyView.
The Australian government's 2009 commitment to the 2007 United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples did not make Indigenous Australians a “people.” In 2017, in the Uluru Statement from the Heart, Indigenous Australians asserted peoplehood and asked Australians to recognise this via a constitutional amendment that would have created ...
Murray Goot, Tim Rowse
wiley   +1 more source

Determinants of Human Development Index in South Africa: A Comparative Analysis of Different Time Periods

open access: yesWorld
The Human Development Index is a useful measure of a country’s overall prosperity and standard of living (HDI). The Human Development Index (HDI) provides data on the social and economic progress of a nation by accounting for variables such as life ...
Kanayo Ogujiuba   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Income inequality after apartheid [PDF]

open access: yes
This paper investigates changes in and patterns of income inequality in South Africa during the post-apartheid period 1994 to 2004. While findings show a rapidly growing high-income African population (a trend that began before 1994 and continued ...
Jeremy Seekings   +2 more
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Biko on non-white and black: improving social reality [PDF]

open access: yes, 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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The ethics of responding to democratic backsliding abroad

open access: yesAmerican Journal of Political Science, EarlyView.
Abstract The past decade has seen a marked shift as many previously liberal democratic states have backslidden, taking authoritarian turns. How should liberal actors respond to democratic backsliding by others? Although it might seem that it is vital for liberal actors to react robustly to avoid complicity or to maintain their liberal integrity, this ...
James Pattison
wiley   +1 more source

The strategies of Decentralization and Hybridization in Nadine Gordimer`s July`s people

open access: yesآداب الكوفة
             The dichotomy of centre vs periphery is a central idea in postcolonial theory and an important model to describe the relationship between colonizer and colonized.
امير حسين, قاسم سرحان
doaj   +1 more source

Aging and the End Times: Evangelical Eschatology and Experiences of Elderhood in the United States and South Africa

open access: yesAnthropology & Aging, 2019
Recent trends in aging studies and popular U.S. discourse reformulate elderhood as a valuable, not necessarily negative, experience, and these new models of aging have extended to a consideration of religious practices that can make old age particularly ...
Douglas Bafford
doaj   +1 more source

Identity and Oppression: Differential Responses to an In-Between Status [PDF]

open access: yes, 2003
Oppression operates at various levels, with varying degrees of negativity, and groups respond in markedly different ways. In this paper, the in-between status of the colored South African group is used to illustrate issues of identity and oppression ...
Adhikari   +56 more
core   +1 more source

Weaponizing Nature, Naturalizing Violence: Anthropologies of Ecofascism

open access: yesAmerican Anthropologist, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT After decades of denial and obstruction, the global Right is increasingly willing to acknowledge that climate change is a threat to lives and lifeways everywhere. Moreover, some seize on the specter of ecological collapse to advance fascistic politics.
Chloe Ahmann   +7 more
wiley   +1 more source

The Historical Roots of Post-Apartheid Intra-Working-Class Racism

open access: yesThe Thinker, 2021
Both European colonialism and apartheid shaped the economic history of South Africa, at the heart of which was the super exploitation of Black labour for the benefits of capital, the state, and white labour.
Tlhabane Mokhine ‘Dan’ Motaung
doaj  

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