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Countering Colonial Memory Through Public and Popular Culture in Cape Town

open access: yesGenealogy
Historical legacies of enslavement and apartheid structural violence underpin the societal fabric of Cape Town. Walking through the city of Cape Town, colonial reminders and bastions of white supremacy remain evident in statues, street names and the ...
Jody Metcalfe
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L’anglais d’Afrique du Sud : indigénisation et affirmation politique. Le cas du Dictionary of South African English on Historical Principles

open access: yesRevue LISA, 2015
When it first appeared in 1996 the Dictionary of South African English on Historical Principles (DSAEHP) intended to reflect the linguistic reality of South African English, a ‘contact language’ spoken as a home language by comparatively few people. Just
Bernard Cros
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Who Makes the Far Right? Exploring Membership Application Data of the National Front of Australia

open access: yesAustralian Journal of Politics &History, EarlyView.
This paper addresses a problem for scholars examining the question of who supports far right political parties or movements. Due to the semi‐clandestine or oppositional nature of far right groups, historians, as well as those in adjacent disciplines, have often been unable to gain access to sufficient records or data to conduct analysis of who supports
Evan Smith, Lauren Pikó
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The ANC and Apartheid South Africa’s Nuclear Weapons Program

open access: yesThe Thinker
The African National Congress (ANC) was established in 1912 and banned by the apartheid government in 1960. Many members of the organisation went into exile, and it continued underground.
Jo-Ansie van Wyk, Anna-Mart van Wyk
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Love and loathing in Cape Town

open access: yesABE Journal, 2013
Today, the platonic forms of the modernist, Corbusian-inspired Werdmuller Centre, by South African architect and urban designer Roelof Uytenbogaardt, stand against a background of decay in a neglected corner of Claremont, Cape Town.
Noëleen Murray
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‘The White Hordes From the West’: Race and Refuge in Australian Media Commentary About White Rhodesians During Zimbabwe's Decolonisation

open access: yesAustralian Journal of Politics &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article explores Australian media commentary on white Rhodesians migrating to Australia, focusing on the period of Malcolm Fraser's prime ministership (1975–1983). The main argument is that the Australian media debates about whether to classify white Rhodesians as ‘migrants’ or ‘refugees’ were not merely semantic but reflected a deeper ...
George Bishi, Ana Stevenson
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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
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The Outsiders: Principled Withdrawal, Whiteness, and Power in the Los Angeles Food Justice Movement

open access: yesAmerican Anthropologist, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article draws on understandings of whiteness and the misconstrual of South Central Los Angeles to analyze the power dynamics between “outsider” activists and residents of South Central as they worked toward a more equitable food system.
Hanna Garth
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Further Considerations Needed to Assess Reshoring: Its Impact on Host Communities

open access: yesBusiness Ethics, the Environment &Responsibility, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT After several decades of offshoring, reshoring is becoming an emergent strategy in many countries and industries. Both governments compel firms to reshore their production to their home countries as firms find, in some cases, that it is more profitable for them to do so.
Fernando Merino
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