• 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 ...
• 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 ...
• 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 ...
• Job satisfaction in South Africa : the quest for job quality 

  Mncwango, Bongiwe; Masenge, Andries; Puttergill, Charles (Unisa Press, 2023-12)

  Job satisfaction is a key determinant in ensuring and maintaining a productive workforce. It is an outcome of the interaction between individual personal characteristics, work values, needs and expectations on one hand ...
• Labour market in peril : interference of influential individuals in the integration of Congolese workers into the labour market 

  Inaka, Saint Jose (Sage, 2024)

  The encroachment of certain influential individuals who employ cronyism, patronage, and networking into the recruitment and hiring processes of employees in the Democratic Republic of the Congo is a widely discussed issue ...
• COVID-19 experience and student wellbeing amongst publicly funded higher education students in South Africa after the first, and second waves 

  Wildschut, Angelique; Wilson-Fadiji, Angelina (Springer, 2024-08)

  Although higher education students have been identified as one of the social groups most affected by the impact of COVID-19, higher education literature appears to focus more on documenting implications for teaching and ...
• Ke mosali oa Mosotho : reflecting on indigenous conceptions of womanhood in Lesotho 

  Mohlabane, Neo (Routledge, 2023)

  This paper challenges the invisibilisation and silencing of indigenous conceptions of womanhood in feminist scholarly work. It argues that “Mosotho woman,” as we know it today, is a colonial construct for it is located ...
• ‘Brandsluts’ : Instagram influencers and conspicuous consumption in post-apartheid South Africa 

  Sana, Vidhya (Routledge, 2024)

  Post-Apartheid South Africa shifted to a culture of consumption, originating with a transition to a neoliberal society [Sana, V. (2022). Bits of bytes and bites of bits: Instagram and the gendered performance of food ...
• Youth in artisanal and small-scale mining (ASM) and higher education nexus : diffusion of innovations and knowledge transfer 

  Arthur-Holmes, Francis; Yeboah, Thomas; Cobbinah, Isaac Joseph; Busia, Kwaku Abrefa (Elsevier, 2023-09)

  Research literature has underscored the growing engagement of youth in artisanal and small-scale mining (ASM). However, no published study has explicitly investigated the symbiotic exchanges on how youth in ASM transfer ...
• An exploration of sociocultural adaptations of black students in South African private high schools 

  Mogoboya, Boitumelo (University of Pretoria, 2024-05)

  This study explored the sociocultural adaptations of Black students in South African private high schools. The specific objectives of the study were to: (1) explore the positive and negative sociocultural experiences of ...
• An investigation into the changing workplace of South African auditors and their experiences of Artificial Intelligence (AI) systems and the implications for the auditing profession 

  Phasha, Noluthando Yvonne (University of Pretoria, 2023-12-20)

  The ongoing technological development and advancements have led to changes to the audit profession in South Africa and an alteration of the audit professionals’ work life. This dissertation investigates the impact this ...
• Safety and belonging : constructing a sense of belonging amongst young, middle-class, South African feminine bodies within an 'unsafe' place 

  Wiele, Simone Sarah-Jane (University of Pretoria, 2023-10-17)

  The affective dimension of belonging is theorised to involve feelings of being valued, safety, and agency. However, when applied to the lives of young South African women this conceptualisation falters and reveals its ...
• Application of Guba and Lincoln’s parallel criteria to assess trustworthiness of qualitative research on indigenous social protection systems 

  Enworo, Oko Chima (Emerald, 2023-06)

  PURPOSE : This paper illustrates how Guba and Lincoln’s parallel criteria for establishing trustworthiness, can be adapted and applied to qualitative research on indigenous social protection systems. It provides insights ...
• Obstetric violence : an intersectional refraction through abolition feminism 

  Van der Waal, Rodante; Mayra, Kaveri; Horn, Anna; Chadwick, Rachelle Joy (Wiley, 2023-05)

  Obstetric violence, a term coined by activists in Latin America to describe violence during pregnancy, childbirth, and postpartum, is a controversial feminist term in global health policymaking as well as in obstetric and ...
• The client’s principles: explaining Israel and Taiwan’s defense ties with Central America 

  Banerjee, Vasabjit; Hosur Suhas, Prashant (Routledge, 2024)

  Although foreign policy between great power patrons and their client states is often studied, those of client states and third states within the context of patron-client relations receive little attention. We address this ...
• Civil-military relations : through a perilous lens 

  Banerjee, Vasabjit; Webeck, Sean P. (Sage, 2024-01)

  Since Huntington’s seminal work The Soldier and the State, the scholarship on civil–military relations in the American context has often emphasized the need for a professional military to maintain an apolitical stance and ...
• In memory of Tom Lodge 

  Hyslop, Jonathan (Routledge, 2024)

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• Narratives of ageing, narratives of nation-building : Manjul and the poetics of dissidence in Nepal 

  Shakya, Mallika (Sage, 2024-01)

  This article reads the work of a publicly engaged poet from Nepal, Manjul, to explore how revolutions age along with humans and nations. His recent work is juxtaposed against his earlier political activism leading a radical ...
• Beyond masters: women’s shifting roles in Nepal’s new neoliberal garment industry 

  Shakya, Mallika (Routledge, 2024)

  The late 20th century saw a phenomenal integration of the production and consumption of clothing between the Global North and the Global South. While global integration of mass manufactured garments has been discussed at ...

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