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Africa in the global imaginary: towards internationally competitive science and research. Proceedings of the 2nd annual conference of the International Geographical Commission on African studies held on 17 - 19 June 2019 at the University of Zululand, South Africa.
No full textProceedings of the Second Annual Conference of the International
Geographical Union Commission on African Studies, which was held at the University of
Zululand from 16 -19 June 2019.The International Geographical Commission (IGU) Commission on African Studies (CAS) held
its second annual conference at the University of Zululand in June 2019. One of the direct
products of the conference is the publication of these conference proceedings, whose authors
are drawn from different parts of Africa, and include post-graduate students. The papers in
this volume engage with various aspects of the conference theme, which is Africa in the global
imaginary: Towards internationally competitive science and research. The authors represent
different disciplinary backgrounds in the natural and social sciences and humanities. The
chapters in the publication are organised under the following themes and sections: climate
change issues in Africa, environmental problems in Africa, environmental conservation,
natural resource use and governance, globalisation and regional economic integration in
Africa, rural development and water resources. The contributions illustrate various research
projects in Africa as well as different debates on natural and social reality on the continent.
Some of the contributions also reveal innovative approaches to the study and/or analysis of
natural and/or social reality, the results and conclusions of which are thought-provoking.National Research Foundation (NRF
Chapter 13 Safe European home
No full textThis book challenges the common European notions about African migration to Europe and offers a holistic understanding of the current situation in Africa. It advocates a need to rethink Africa-Europe relations and view migration and borders as a resource rather than sources of a crisis
Chapter 13 Safe European home
No full textThis book challenges the common European notions about African migration to Europe and offers a holistic understanding of the current situation in Africa. It advocates a need to rethink Africa-Europe relations and view migration and borders as a resource rather than sources of a crisis
Expanding Boundaries
No full textThis book challenges the common European notions about African migration to Europe and offers a holistic understanding of the current situation in Africa. It advocates a need to rethink Africa-Europe relations and view migration and borders as a resource rather than sources of a crisis
Expanding Boundaries
No full textThis book challenges the common European notions about African migration to Europe and offers a holistic understanding of the current situation in Africa. It advocates a need to rethink Africa-Europe relations and view migration and borders as a resource rather than sources of a crisis
Exploring cross-border security issues at selected Southern African Development Community (SADC) borders and borderlands: Beitbridge and Kosi Bay
No full textMasters in Public Administration - MPACross-border migration within the Southern African Development Community (SADC) region is regarded as a cross-border security issue that has often ignited anti-immigration sentiments in countries like South Africa. In particular, there is increasing debate in South Africa over the porosity of its borders with Zimbabwe and Mozambique and how this has led, not only to cross-border security issues, but also threatens the socio-economic and political stability of South Africa. There is a perception that the porous borders provide a breeding ground for a plethora of criminal and illegal activities such as human smuggling and trafficking, cross-border transportation of contraband and violence which undermine South Africa`s sovereignty and territorial integrity. These are legitimate concerns which have motivated border securitisation through the establishment of the Border Management Authority (BMA)
Theorising Borders in Africa: What are the Implications for African Integration?
No full textWhile continental and regional integration in Africa is indeed a current debate, and many plans are in motion to achieve this, there appear to be gaps in current conceptualisation and implementation. By peripherising and subalternising non-state actors, such as informal cross-border traders, such integration fails dismally in terms of inclusive integration. Current approaches appear to follow statist, Eurocentric understandings (or misunderstandings) of African borders, which results in the privileging of state at the expense of non-state actors in integration policies and programmes. Against this background, this paper argues that borders and the informal economy are not an exaggerated phenomenon, but that they are realities with significant importance and impact; bearing consequences for not only the micro spaces where they are manifested, but also for state-led initiatives to establish amalgamated socio-economic spaces for African countries. After all, evidence on the ground clearly shows that the socio-economic realities of informal cross-border actors at African borders and borderlands suggest that de facto processes of regional integration are unfolding at these sites. It should therefore not be difficult to enhance and channel these realities and tailor them towards de jure programmes of continental integration. This should be read as a rethinking of the logic, method, dynamics and extent of continental integration in Africa; an attempt to provide an alternative and all-inclusive continental project capable of achieving truly inclusive integration
Chapter 13 Safe European home
Get PDFThis book challenges the common European notions about African migration to Europe and offers a holistic understanding of the current situation in Africa. It advocates a need to rethink Africa-Europe relations and view migration and borders as a resource rather than sources of a crisis
Exploring the decolonisation of the Environmental Management Curriculum in a Rural Historically Disadvantaged Institution of Higher Education
Get PDFIn the Global South generally and South Africa specifically, calls for decolonising the university curriculum have gained momentum in the recent past. In South Africa, this was aptly demonstrated by the 2015/2016 #FeesMustFall protests which called for inter alia, a transformed university and its curriculum. This has led to calls for the decolonisation of academic disciplines like Geography, among others. Against this backdrop, this study analyses the decolonisation of the Environmental Management curriculum in a rural historically disadvantaged institution of higher education. The specific objectives are to (a) identify the basis of knowledge that constitutes the current Environmental Management curriculum in the discipline of Geography in a rural HDI using the curriculum document and the interview inputs/perceptions from academics and students, (b) assess the limitations and/or problems of the current Environmental Management curriculum using the notions of biography and geography of knowledge and (c) explore pedagogic approaches to recentre the biography and geography of knowledge in the current Environmental Management curriculum. To achieve these, a qualitative study was utilised in terms of in-depth interviews with two academic staff members and ten fourth-level (Honours) students who taught and studied this module in question, respectively. The findings suggest that the content, knowledge, and pedagogy in the Environmental Management curriculum under consideration is Eurocentric because it excludes IKS. In addition, the study findings suggest that both academics and students have identified gaps and/or limitations in the current Environmental Management curriculum because its locus of enunciation is not Africa and South Africa. This is the context within which the respondents in the study have suggested the need to include IKS which could contribute to epistemic access, epistemic presence, epistemic freedom as well as cognitive justice. All this suggests that a decolonised Environmental Management curriculum should include IKS as an integral component. In terms of pedagogy, the practical element must be emphasised together with the introduction of IKS holders into the learning spaces. By extension, assessment should address existing environmental problems in the settings where students and community members live. The suggested assessment approaches include action research. The proposed Environmental Management curriculum must not be alienated and alienating. It must be about the production of knowledge for life
Staying because of all odds
No full textSituated in the context of transforming twenty-first century mobilities and spaces, this chapter throws light on the role of contemporary immigration regulation patterns in constructing types of migrants and migration trajectories. Using the term pervasive internal bordering to capture the extent of interference with migrants’ daily lives, the chapter presents a narrative of “chronic” exclusion as enforcing temporality and pitting migrants’ agency against ubiquitous structure in a protracted struggle that models migration trajectories for settlement. Using empirical evidence, the chapter demonstrates that such regulation misses the point of contemporary migration, resulting in socio-economic loss for migrants and host countries.peerReviewe
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