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(Athabasca University Press, 2024-02)Higher education in the correctional environment is endorsed globally as the most effective tool for rehabilitation. Studies from the Global North have researched correctional education and its accessibility, but few of ...
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Breadwinners behind bars - the lived experiences of incarcerated female breadwinners in South Africa (Criminological and Victimological Society of Southern Africa, 2023-12)Similarly to their overseas counterparts, incarcerated South African women are overrepresented among the poor, have less access to education and assume the principal burden of care and unpaid labour in the home. They are ...
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(Sage, 2024)The percentage of female offenders who are single mothers of minor children is a growing concern among the total incarcerated population in South Africa and globally. This study aimed to explore how expectations about ...
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(VCU Scholars Compass, 2023)Education in the correctional environment is endorsed as an effective rehabilitative tool linked to reducing recidivism and improving reintegration. Unfortunately, while researchers from the Global North are particularly ...
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(Unisa Press, 2024-02)The outbreak of COVID-19 has had negative impacts on many communities across the globe, and, in particular, these impacts have disproportionately affected women. Indeed, preliminary research and reporting on the effects ...
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(Center for African Studies, University of Florida, 2023-07)A growing deterioration of the security situation in Nigeria is provoking debate about the subsisting federalized but ineffective policing structure. The general deterioration of security is also manifesting in the growth ...
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(Wiley, 2023-09)As part of its strategy to win African votes for election to the UN Security Council (2008–12), Canberra sought to leverage its soft power potential by presenting Australia as having “no colonial baggage” in Africa while ...
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(University of Pretoria, Department of Political Sciences, 2022)This article explores the evolution of the ‘Indo-Pacific’ as a concept and geopolitical social construct. Since 2007, the concept has been framed predominatly to fit the geostrategic concerns of global North powers. ...
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(University of Pretoria, Department of Political Sciences, 2022)v44i2.4416The past decade and a half, ever since former Japanese prime minister Shinzo Abe’s ‘Confluence of the Two Oceans’ speech in front of the Indian parliament in August 2007, has seen the rapid evolution of the concept ...
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(University of Pretoria, Department of Political Sciences, 2022)China’s perspective of the Indo-Pacific as a set of strategies initially developed by Japan but mainly driven by the United States (US), appears to be shifting. Beijing originally viewed such approaches as directly ...
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(Adonis and Abbey, 2023-04)Industrialisation is vital for developing countries‘ quest for sustainable growth, development, and transformation. This article examines the SADC region‘s stated objective of industrialisation and regional integration ...
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(Adonis and Abbey, 2022-12)It is crucial to examine the historical conflict mediation role that SADC played in Zimbabwe given the country’s continuous political instability and economic catastrophe. Zimbabwe held its first all-race elections in 1980, ...
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(Routledge, 2022)Southern Africa has a long and complex history of migration. This article argues that overall, the mechanisms for governing migration and the practice of migration in the region ignore prevailing theoretical and ideological ...
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(Elsevier, 2022-11)The Covid-19 pandemic border closure policy and other anti-migrant policies in 2020 have become another basis for flaunting the ECOWAS free movement protocols by member states now referred to as pandemic nationalism. ...
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(Research Society of Pakistan, 2021-04)The relations between India and Pakistan are currently stalemated owing to ongoing tensions. These tensions are rooted in long-term rivalry between the two nations. Soft power is one area where there are unifying elements ...
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(Springer, 2024-02)What does it take to belong to a region and exert power over it? The scholarship on regional powers has elaborated sophisticated indicators to establish nuances of power, but the depiction of the region has remained vague. ...
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(Tydskrif vir Letterkunde Assosiasie, 2021)In this review article I closely read the recently published book African Philosophical and Literary Possibilities: Re-reading the Canon (2020), edited by Aretha Phiri. I suggest two ways of reading the text. The first ...
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(Forum Press, 2021)No abstract available.
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(Elsevier, 2022-01)We offer here a brief commentary of the Rome Declaration (May 21, 2021) in light of a recent Report on the Health-Environment Nexus released by the Wellbeing Economy Alliance (WEALL). Although the Rome Declaration promotes ...
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(Routledge, 2021)The article analyses the Arab Spring protests that started in Tunisia in 2010 and spread into more than thirteen other countries across two continents. Of the more than thirteen countries affected by the Arab Spring, only ...