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Political change, rape, and pornography in post-Apartheid South Africa
, 1998 Maitse argues that in post-apartheid South Africa, perceptions of what it means to be a woman are changing. Men are finding it difficult to adapt to these changes and, fuelled by the ready availability of pornography, are reacting with increased rape and
Maitse, Teboho, Teboho Maitse
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‘Fine Men from Afar’: Cricket and Empire on the Home Front
History, EarlyView.Abstract During the Second World War, contrary to enduring images of bombardment and scarcity, people on Britain's ‘Home Front’ continued to take part in a broad array of sporting activities. Cricket played a more significant role in the wartime sporting landscape than many historians have previously recognized.
Michael Collins
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Dundee Discussion Papers in Economics 157:Accounting for the persistence of racial wage differences in post-apartheid South Africa [PDF]
, 2003 This paper employs data from the Labour Force Surveys of September 2000 and 2001 to update our earlier account of the evolution of the racial wage hierarchy in post-apartheid South Africa.
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History, EarlyView.Abstract In March 1976, around 2000 women from forty countries arrived at the Palais des Congrès in Brussels to participate in the first International Tribunal on Crimes Against Women. Explicitly positioning themselves against the United Nations‐led ‘International Year of the Woman’, the organizers and participants of the tribunal proclaimed a global ...
NIVEDITA JOON
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Astronomy in post-apartheid South Africa [PDF]
Proceedings of the International Astronomical Union, 2009 AbstractAstronomy was one of the sciences earmarked for major support by South Africa's first democratically elected government in 1994. This was a very remarkable decision for a country with serious challenges in poverty, health and unemployment, but shows something of the long term vision of the new government.
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History, EarlyView.Abstract This article analyses the racialized and gendered constraints faced by African sportswomen in international sporting competitions, from the interwar period to the 1980s, with a focus on the policing and expectations framing young international athletes’ acceptable behaviour.
Claire Nicolas
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History, EarlyView.Abstract Since its formation in the 1980s, the worldview of the Workers’ Party (Partido dos Trabalhadores; PT) in Brazil has undergone significant transformations amid the consolidation of neoliberal hegemony and the post‐Cold War reconfiguration of the global left.
Tiago Soares Nogara
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'To all who live in it' : an investigation of the dilemmas of, and prospects for, inclusive citizenship in South Africa [PDF]
, 2011 This study is a literature-based analysis of the prospects for inclusive citizenship in light of the contradiction between formal political equality and the reality of socio-economic inequality within the context of post-apartheid South Africa.
Schwartz, Carrie
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International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.Abstract From desert ski resorts to subtropical Winter Games, there is a global proliferation of ‘mission‐impossible’ mega‐projects. The prevailing frameworks of city branding and urban entrepreneurism fail to explain the political logics behind these seemingly irrational projects.
Yiqiu Liu, Sven Daniel Wolfe
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The British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This article provides the first systematic mapping of wealth elites on the Johannesburg Stock Exchange (JSE), using original data on individuals linked to significant shareholding entities rather than corporate executives. Through Multiple Correspondence Analysis and cluster analysis, we identify four elite formations shaped by race, gender ...
Aroop Chatterjee, Comfort Molefinyana
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