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Student accounts of space and safety at a South African university: implications for social identities and diversity [PDF]

, 2018
Transformation efforts in South African higher education have been under increased scrutiny in recent years, especially following the last years of student activism and calls for decolonization of universities.
Bennett J., Bhana D., Bozalek V., Bozalek V., Bradbury J., Department of Education, Department of Education, Dosekun S., Gachago D., Gordon S., Gukurume S., Leibowitz B., Ngabaza S., Shefer T., Shefer T., Shefer T., Soudien C., Tronto J., Tronto J.   +18 more
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Evolving interdependencies between two waves of gentrifiers in the wax and wane of a ‘Utopian Village’: A case study of Cenbu Village, Shanghai

The Geographical Journal, Volume 191, Issue 1, March 2025.
Short Abstract This study examines the complex dynamics of rural gentrification in a Shanghai village, focusing on the evolving relationships between two waves of gentrifiers. It reveals how initial cooperation between first‐wave gentrifiers and locals transforms into conflict and displacement as second‐wave gentrifiers arrive with differing ...
Jinwei Hao, Jin Zhu, Shenjing He, Junhua Lu   +3 more
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Kinship Health Relationships: Reconfiguring the “Good Death” in Mixed Species Families

Symbolic Interaction, Volume 48, Issue 1, Page 151-174, February 2025.
Through an innovative interspecies analysis, this article explores narratives surrounding the medical treatment of humans and pet animals at the end of life among U.K. veterinary surgeons, medical practitioners, and members of the public. Contrasting the care options open to pet owners with those available to human patients, and through a thematic ...
Vanessa Ashall, Lindsay Hamilton, Miriam Johnson, Joanna Latimer   +3 more
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‘We are here our hearts are there’: Rurality, belonging and walking together

Sociologia Ruralis, Volume 65, Issue 1, January 2025.
Abstract The notion of the rural idyll is well recognised within scholarship. Allied to this imaginary is that rural areas comprise white and homogenous space, with socially conservative values that are exclusionary. In recent decades, studies have identified the arrival of migrants into so‐called New Immigration Destinations, rural spaces with little ...
Henna Asikainen, Ruth McAreavey
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Teacher as learner: a personal reflection on a short course for South African university educators [PDF]

, 2013
Higher education is understood to play a critical role in ongoing processes of social transformation in post-apartheid South Africa through the production of graduates who are critical and engaged citizens.
Boler M., Bradford H., CHE (Council on Higher Education), Course Outline, DHET, DHET, Erlank N., Germond P., Gevisser M., Gouws A., Hearn J., hooks b., Jansen J., Kopp S., Lange L., Le Guin, U, Lewis D., Lindsay Clowes, Morgan R., Morgan R., Ratele K., Ratele K., Scully P., Soudien C., Steyn M., Woods J., Zeleza P.   +26 more
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Rural being: Merleau‐Ponty, embodied perception and intersectionality

Sociologia Ruralis, Volume 65, Issue 1, January 2025.
Abstract Discussions of space, place and intersectionality have been present in rural studies since the early 2010s. Drawing upon the ‘relational turn’ in rural sociology and geography, this research has tended to focus on the ways in which the materiality of rural space interlocks with the connective lines of the various identity markers (e.g., ‘race’,
Nathan Aaron Kerrigan
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Optimising the imbaula stove [PDF]

, 2011
In South Africa, human and environmental health implications from domestic solid fuel combustion have spurred interest in cleaner alternative sources of energy and better combustion technologies.
Annegarn, H.J., Kimemia, D.K., Molapo, V., Pemberton-Pigott, C., Robinson, J.   +4 more
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International Biological Flora: Trapa natans†

Journal of Ecology, Volume 112, Issue 10, Page 2386-2420, October 2024.
The water caltrop (Trapa natans L.) was once widely distributed in its native range, but is in some part (i.e. Europe) nowadays very rare, highly threatened and of conservation concern for still unknown reasons. It has been introduced beyond its native range (e.g.
Natalie Palm, Jürgen Franzaring, Andreas H. Schweiger   +2 more
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Maintenance of a narrow hybrid zone between native and introduced red foxes (Vulpes vulpes) despite conspecificity and high dispersal capabilities

Molecular Ecology, Volume 33, Issue 13, July 2024.
Abstract Human‐facilitated introductions of nonnative populations can lead to secondary contact between allopatric lineages, resulting in lineage homogenisation or the formation of stable hybrid zones maintained by reproductive barriers. We investigated patterns of gene flow between the native Sacramento Valley red fox (Vulpes vulpes patwin) and ...
Sophie Preckler‐Quisquater, Cate B. Quinn, Benjamin N. Sacks   +2 more
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Campus Environment 2008: A National Report Card on Sustainability in Higher Education [PDF]

, 2008
Presents survey findings on national and regional trends among colleges in environmental leadership in management, academic courses in sustainability, and conservation efforts in operations.
David J. Eagan, Kenneth Gaalswyk, L. Julian Keniry, Mary McIntosh   +3 more
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