• The outcomes of the voice use reduction program on voice quality and vocal fatigue in occupational voice users 

  Vermeulen, Rouxjeanne; Du Toit, Maria; Van Lierde, K.M. (Kristiane); Graham, Marien Alet; Van der Linde, Jeannie (Sage, 2024)

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• Doing things with grammar : presupposition accommodation across grammatical categories 

  Khachaturyan, Maria; Sandman, Erika; Crane, Thera Marie (John Benjamins Publishing, 2024-12)

  This paper studies the way utterances project properties of the interactional context via the choice of grammatical indexicals. Our analysis is an original combination of existing theoretical developments including notions ...
• Exploring treatment barriers on the use of crystal methamphetamine among young people in Harare, Zimbabwe 

  Nyashanu, Mathew; Brown, Michael; Nyashanu, Tichaenzana; Frost, Diana (Taylor and Francis, 2024-02-15)

  BACKGROUND : Substance misuse among young people is one of the most public concerns in global health. This study set out to explore treatment barriers and abstinence paradigm among young people. METHODOLOGY : This study ...
• Computerised adaptive method for assessing university undergraduates’ mental well-being within an African context : an open-source set-up with Concerto 

  Oladele, Jumoke Iyabode (Elsevier, 2025-06)

  This research presents the development of a computerised adaptive testing system for assessing university undergraduates' mental health in an African setting. An item pool of 375 items that reflect eight sub-constructs of ...
• Policing the police : why it is so hard to reform police departments in the United States? 

  Banerjee, Vasabjit; Willison, Charley; Greer, Scott L. (Sage, 2025)

  Why has it been so difficult to reform U.S. policing? We provide a theoretical argument that understanding of the entrenched militarisation and accountability problems of U.S. police departments would benefit from using ...
• Accountability, bureaucratic discretion, and civil-military relations 

  Webeck, Sean P.; Banerjee, Vasabjit (Sage, 2025)

  All democracies wrestle with the problem of representation. Most people intuitively understand this through electoral politics, but this connection is less clear when we consider bureaucracy. And when it comes to civil-military ...
• Conceptualizing intra-household gender roles and power dynamics within the cassava food value chains : lessons from qualitative evidence among Tanzanian smallholder farmers 

  Masamha, Blessing; Uzokwe, Veronica N.E; Thebe, Vusilizwe (African Scholary Science Communications Trust, 2024)

  Most subsistence crops that fall in low-value chains, such as cassava, are controlled mainly by women; hence, intra-household gender roles and power dynamics are complex and depend on socio-economic and cultural contexts. ...
• Mobilising in the face of large-scale urban change : a conversation between two community organisers from Johannesburg and London 

  Makwela, Mike; Hayward, Sharon; Dittgen, Romain (Routledge, 2024)

  Large-scale and long-term urban development projects often cause sizeable transformations in the built and social fabric, raising questions about the impacts on existing neighbourhoods and communities, and how they might ...
• Disseminating archaeological heritage knowledge for development in Africa with special reference to Zimbabwe 

  Shenjere-Nyabezi, Plan; Pwiti, Gilbert; Sagiya, Munyaradzi Elton (Sage, 2024-10)

  In recent years, culture has gained recognition as a vital element in sustainable development efforts, both globally through the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and in Africa through the African Union’s Vision 2063. ...
• Fisting subjectivity : narratives of sexual subjectivity among gay fist-fuckers 

  Martin, Jarred H. (Taylor and Francis, 2024-04-17)

  Studies of sexuality have long been interested in understanding the construction of sexual subjectivity, especially amongst people whose participation in more nonnormative and kinkier forms of sex/uality have been ...
• Helen Verran and the question of African logic 

  Ofuasia, Emmanuel (Taylor and Francis, 2025)

  Hitherto, the African intellect had been decimated by notable European scholars such as David Hume, Charles Darwin, Friedrich Hegel, Lucien Levy-Bruhl to name a few. The common denominator among these male scholars is that ...
• Developing an inclusive African theory of academic literacy 

  Eybers, Oscar Oliver; Dewa, Nokuthula Ntombiyelizwe (The International Journal of Literacies, 2025-01-16)

  South Africa has enjoyed post-apartheid democratic freedom for thirty years. However, three decades after apartheid’s legal end, institutions of higher learning still grapple with a significant crisis of student attrition. ...
• Preparing to play : a thematic analysis of bottom training in gay men's fist-play 

  Martin, Jarred H. (Taylor and Francis, 2025)

  Anal fisting amongst gay men has been characterised as a risky form of sexual play, particularly for the bottoming (receptive) playmate. This view may be over simplistic and fail to recognise how fist-bottoms ready ...
• Drug addiction and marital conflicts : exploring the experiences of drug-addicted wives in Abuja, Nigeria 

  Abdullahi, Ali Arazeem; Abidemi, Olagunju R.; Ntozini, Anathi (Wiley, 2024)

  Recent studies have shown that women now abuse drugs as much as men. Women even abuse certain kinds of drugs more than men. There is strong evidence that some married women also engage in drug abuse. However, few studies ...
• Between eco-anxiety and solastalgia : aspirational and exiled astronaut eco-imaginaries 

  Du Preez, Amanda (Routledge, 2025)

  Although space travel is not often discussed in relation to the environmental crisis, it is proposed here that how the core agent of space travel, namely the astronaut, is imagined is of cardinal importance to environmental ...
• When the rainbow is bittersweet : reflections on being queer and Indian in Durban 

  O’Connell, Siona; Ghosh, Debjyoti; Reddy, Vasu (Lectito, 2024)

  South Africa is one of the few countries in Africa that no longer criminalises same-sex sexual activity, and the only one to recognise same-sex marriage under the legal system. Yet, at the same time, several groups in the ...
• Co-designing and implementing transdisciplinary academic literacy in higher education 

  Eybers, Oscar Oliver (Universidad de Granada, 2025-01-16)

  Transdisciplinary education combines disciplinary and multidisciplinary approaches. Unlike the latter paradigms, transdisciplinary pedagogy deliberately integrates diverse academic fields with knowledge, practices and ...
• Intimate partner violence : the criminal (in)justice system 

  Bernardi, Delia Anastasia (Criminological and Victimological Society of Southern Africa, 2023-12)

  On 12 September 2021, South African President, Cyril Ramaphosa, addressed the nation regarding the COVID-19 vaccination drive. The President placed almost equal weight on the importance of finding a resolution for “violence ...
• A literature review of health and mental well-being indicators and its assessment in Sub-Saharan Africa (2014-2022) 

  Oladele, Jumoke Iyabode; Guse, Tharina; Owolabi, Henry O. (Gonabad University of Medical Sciences, 2024-03-01)

  BACKGROUND : Multiple factors shape health and mental well-being (MWB). These factors are considered indicators for a holistic assessment of the well-being construct. Analyzing existing literature on indicators related ...
• The desiring girl in South African young adult fiction 

  Kneen, Bonnie (Routledge, 2025)

  Girls in South African young adult (YA) fiction typically represent a heteropatriarchal, sexually passive model of femininity that allows for neither sexual autonomy nor sexual desire. This article examines six prominent ...

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