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Apartheid and the Bantustans From Reserves to Reincorporation
No full textAs anticolonial nationalism and postwar decolonization undermined the global legitimacy of South Africa’s settler colonial order, the apartheid government sought new ways to rationalize and entrench white minority rule. The Afrikaner nationalist regime mimicked the global discourses of self-determination and development to justify tightening its regimes of repression and colonial exclusion: instead of the full political representation demanded by African nationalists, the Black majority would instead be granted nominal “self-government” in one of ten ethnic “homelands” or bantustans. Through an examination of the changing historiography on the bantustans, this chapter examines the context, evolution, and consequences of these policies over the twentieth century, from the creation of a national scheme of “native reserves” in 1913 to the creation of apartheid-era bantustan states. Drawing on recent historiography, it explores the dynamics surrounding the making of these ethnic regimes, their social and economic milieu, and the mass displacement, relocation, and militarized repression that were integral to the bantustan project. It explores escalating resistance to apartheid as it played out in the bantustans, traces their demise and eventual reincorporation in 1994, and surveys their profound and lasting legacies in postapartheid South Africa
How Did Human Rights Fare in Amendments to the International Health Regulations?
Get PDFIn this article, we examine the relationship between the World Health Organization International Health Regulations (IHR) and human rights and its implications for IHR reform, considering the evolution of human rights in the 2005 IHR, the role of human rights in IHR reforms and the implications of these reforms in key domains including equity and solidarity, medical countermeasures, core capacities, travel restrictions, vaccine certificates, social measures, accountability, and financing
Enriching Player Development in Women’s Futsal in Portugal: A Narrative Account of Case Examples.
Get PDFIn Portugal, women’s participation in futsal, one of the most popular sports in the country, has increased 85.5% in the last decade, growing from 5,406 to 10,028 female participants. The purpose of this critical commentary is to provide insights on current conditions in women’s futsal in Portugal and what we can learn to improve experiences and opportunities for future generations of players as well as to advance new possibilities for research in this field. Based on the authors’ lived experiences and expertise, a narrative account has been developed to showcase athletes’ developmental pathways within the female futsal landscape in Portugal as case examples. This article seeks to provide some novel insights across sport systems concerning the processes and mechanisms through which athlete development in women’s sport can be enriched as well as how research can be used to increase equity and social justice. The narrative accounts can be taken to imply that there is the need to increase meaningful opportunities for the development of female futsal athletes through using more contemporary pedagogical strategies and structures by the futsal organizations. These contemporary pedagogical strategies may focus on variables such as improved coach education offerings, increased number of practice sessions per week, and access to modernized facilities and equipment. Moving forward, system-level changes are needed to impact individual–environment relationships more accurately as well as continue to foster the growth of the sport
How were past heating transitions experienced and what can they tell us about making low carbon heating a success?
Get PDFThe Last Sacrifice
No full textTHE LAST SACRIFICE uncovers the real-life witchcraft killing that inspired THE WICKER MAN and birthed the folk horror genre. This unsettling true-crime interrogation unlocks the perverse cultural undercurrents that shaped the genre from its murderous beginnings to its modern-day resurrection. This is a journey that gets under the skin of British polite society, that slays with pride, kills with prejudice and exposes an island nation's dark heart to reveal THE WICKER MAN is more fact than fiction
Much to do about (almost) everything: The new Labour government and the unfolding housing crisis.
Get PDFHousing has long been perceived as a key social policy issue in England, with the power to make or break political fortunes. The public has come to understand and conceptualise the mix of current problems as ‘the housing crisis’. This reflects a myriad of issues relating to poor affordability, the undersupply of new homes, high levels of homelessness, substandard housing conditions and energy inefficiency. These are problems that exist within wider socio-economic pressures arising from dwindling real incomes and the heightened cost of living. Some argue that radical solutions are needed, but adherence to existing fiscal rules, the intransigence of current structures of housing provision, and a decade of low investment makes radicalism unlikely. The three main political parties in England thus approached the 2024 General Election with broad similarities in their policy programmes. In this article we reflect on the role housing played in the 2024 General Election and what impact the Labour government is likely to have on housing policy – and housing-related outcomes. We also set out specific policy agendas, that need to carry greater weight in future policy development, if the UK government is serious about confronting the housing crisis
The potential impacts of additional advanced practice regulation on internationally educated nurses and midwives in the UK: final report
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Pepperpot Turrets
Get PDFThe poems in this anthology emerged from a creative writing short course devised by Steve Ely, entitled 'Writing the Apocalyptic Landscape' – the first in a planned series under the rubric of 'The Expressionist Poetry Workshop'. Participants were encouraged to generate visionary responses to the crisis of the Anthropocene in the context of landscapes important to them.
The course and anthology are also part of a wider AHRC-funded research project, entitled Ted Hughes's Expressionism: Visionary Subjectivity, which explores the contention that Hughes's most distinctive and original work is essentially Expressionist, and seeks to encourage innovative and experimental poetry informed by Expressionist principles