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  • 'We cannot reconcile until the past has been acknowledged’ : perspectives on Gukurahundi from Matabeleland, Zimbabwe 
    Murambadoro, Ruth R. (African Centre for the Constructive Resolution of Disputes, 2015)
    Since the Matabeleland massacres in the early 1980s, reconciliation remains unattainable in this region of Zimbabwe. Reasons for this include the fact that survivors of these atrocities have not received the acknowledgement ...
  • Wellbeing economy : an effective paradigm to mainstream post-growth policies? 
    Fioramonti, Lorenzo; Coscieme, Luca; Costanza, Robert; Kubiszewski, Ida; Trebeck, Katherine; Wallis, Stewart; Roberts, Debra; Mortensen, Lars F.; Pickett, Kate E.; Wilkinson, Richard; Ragnarsdottir, Kristin Vala; McGlade, Jacqueline; Lovins, Hunter; De Vogli, Roberto (Elsevier, 2022-02)
    The concept of ‘wellbeing economy’ (WE), that is, an economy that pursues human and ecological wellbeing instead of material growth, is gaining support amongst policymakers, business, and civil society. Over the past couple ...
  • Where and what (for) is the middle? Africa and the middle class(es) 
    Melber, Henning (Palgrave Macmillan, 2015)
    The EADI General Conference 2014 under the title “Responsible Development in a Polycentric World. Inequality, Citizenship and the Middle Classes” happened to be more mainstream than maybe anticipated at the time when the ...
  • Whims of the winds of time? Emerging trends in biodiversity conservation and protected area management 
    Buscher, Bram; Whande, Webster (Ashoka Trust for Research in Ecology and the Environment, 2007)
    This article reviews narratives and trends in biodiversity conservation and protected area (PA) management and examines contestations within and among them in the light of developments within the global political economy. Its ...
  • Whither the ECOWAS free movement protocols? Pandemic nationalism, borders, and migration in West Africa 
    Aniche, Ernest Toochi; Iwuoha, Victor Chidubem; Isike, Christopher (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. ...
  • Whose world? Development, civil society, development studies and (not only) scholar activists 
    Melber, Henning (Routledge, 2014)
    The current international development discourse focuses much on the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) as part of a global social contract in support of international cooperation and governance, with the debate on the ...
  • The will to integrate : South Africa’s responses to regional migration from the SADC region 
    Nshimbi, Christopher Changwe; Fioramonti, Lorenzo (Wiley, 2014)
    This paper surveys frameworks of labour migration in southern Africa and determines South Africa’s policy responses to inflows of migrants from seven neighbouring countries. Legislations, policy reports and scientific ...
  • A word from a founder, to those who follow 
    Olivier, Gerrit (Routledge, 2013)
    It is indeed gratifying to witness the fruits of an initiative of a small group of political scientists assembling at the University of Pretoria 40 years ago to establish the South African Political Science Association ...
  • The world's most powerful number : an assessment of 80 years of GDP ideology 
    Fioramonti, Lorenzo (Wiley, 2014-04)
    The world‟s most powerful number, the gross domestic product (GDP), was invented exactly 80 years ago.1 It was indeed in 1934 that a young economist by the name of Simon Kuznets (who would later on receive a Nobel Prize ...
  • Zimbabwe’s continued isolation 
    Melber, Henning; Southall, Roger (Routledge, 2021)
    In late November 2017 Emmerson Mnangagwa replaced Robert Mugabe as President of Zimbabwe in a ‘military assisted transition’. He declared Zimbabwe ‘open for business’ as the cornerstone of his foreign policy. Hopes were ...
  • Zimbabwe’s foreign policy under Mnangagwa 
    Melber, Henning; Southall, Roger (Sage, 2021-03)
    Under the presidency of Mnangagwa, Zimbabwe’s foreign policy is characterized by the desire to ‘re-engage’ with the West with a view to securing the removal of sanctions and encouraging investment. In this, it has received ...