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Assessing Analogical Acceleration in Public Discourse: The Case of the Buthelezi–Savimbi Comparison and South Africa's Transition
In: Journal of Asian and African studies: JAAS
ISSN: 1745-2538
Politicians often deploy analogies to shape public discourse. If picked up by the media, these references to the past can powerfully shape how political events are perceived. This article examines why some analogies became popular through an exploration of the creation and development of the analogy comparing Mangosuthu Buthelezi, the leader of the Inkatha Freedom Party in South Africa, to Jonas Savimbi, the leader of the National Union for the Total Independence of Angola, during South Africa's transition. Tracing the evolution of the Buthelezi–Savimbi comparison through an analysis of media reports indicates that analogies that possess predictive power are likely to gain traction in public discourse and become effective tools for policy advocacy.
The Presidents: From Mandela to Ramaphosa, Leadership in the Age of Crisis: by Richard Calland and Mabel Sithole, Cape Town, Penguin Books, 2022, pp. xvi + 247, R290 (paperback), 978-1-776-09594-0
In: South African journal of international affairs: journal of the South African Institute of International Affairs, Volume 30, Issue 1, p. 159-161
ISSN: 1938-0275
After apartheid: investigating what modern South Africans inherited
In: Safundi: the journal of South African and American Comparative Studies, Volume 23, Issue 3-4, p. 235-239
ISSN: 1543-1304
Global human burden and official development assistance in health R&D: The role of medical absorptive capacity
In: Research policy: policy, management and economic studies of science, technology and innovation, Volume 50, Issue 10, p. 104365
ISSN: 1873-7625
Re-Evaluating South African Foreign Policy Decision-Making: Archives, Architects and the Promise of Another Wave
In: Politikon: South African journal of political science, Volume 48, Issue 4, p. 547-571
ISSN: 1470-1014
Alfred Nzo: Reassessing a Misunderstood Minister
In: African studies, Volume 80, Issue 1, p. 21-39
ISSN: 1469-2872
Gatekeeping The Profession
In: Williams, Christopher, 26 Gatekeeping The Profession, Cardozo J. Equal Rts. 171, 2020
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Political imperatives and military preparations: new insights into why South Africa's 1998 intervention in Lesotho went awry
In: South African journal of international affairs: journal of the South African Institute of International Affairs, Volume 26, Issue 1, p. 25-51
ISSN: 1938-0275
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Assessing South Africa's ambivalent SOGI diplomacy in Africa
In: South African journal of international affairs: journal of the South African Institute of International Affairs, Volume 24, Issue 3, p. 375-394
ISSN: 1938-0275
The Concrete 'Sound Object' and the Emergence of Acoustical Film and Radiophonic Art in the Modernist Avant-Garde
In: Transcultural studies, Volume 13, Issue 2, p. 239-263
ISSN: 2375-1606
Radiophonic art could not have emerged at the end of the 1920s without an intense period of experimentation across the creative fields of radio, new music, phonography, film, literature and theatre. The engagement with sound recording and broadcast technologies by artists radically expanded the scope of creative possibility within their respective practices, and more particularly, pointed to new forms of (inter-)artistic practice based in sound technologies including those of radio. This paper examines the convergence of industry, the development of technology, and creative practice that gave sound, previously understood as immaterial, a concrete objectification capable of responding to creative praxis, and so brought about the conditions that enabled a radiophonic art to materialize.
The Crisis of South African foreign policy: Diplomacy, leadership and the role of the African National Congress
In: South African journal of international affairs: journal of the South African Institute of International Affairs, Volume 23, Issue 2, p. 247-250
ISSN: 1938-0275
Survival strategies for teachers and researchers of ESP in economically challenging times
I outline some of the challenges for teachers and researchers of ESP in this period of prolonged economic crisis from the perspective of someone who has taught English for law students and political science students for many years, is editor of the journal ESP Across Cultures, and is Head of the Language Centre of Foggia University. I focus on three issues: 1) teaching LSP at university level in a context of contradictory pressures coming from ministerial insistence on internationalization of Italian universities in an increasingly globalized world while drastically reducing funding at all levels; 2) research in ESP, where I outline the vibrancy of ESP studies despite the economic hardships, but I surmise that this is partly the result of a shift towards providing practical language skills for future professionals in line with the marketization of tertiary education; 3) the emerging role of CLIL (Content and Language Integrated Learning), where in Italy it is now law to provide part of secondary school tuition of a non-language subject in a foreign language: I outline the ways in which ESP and CLIL can mutually complement each other. I conclude by arguing that the future looks bright for ESP studies despite the economic crisis.
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Peacemaking from the inside out: How South Africa's negotiated transition influenced the Mandela Administration's regional conflict resolution strategies
In: South African journal of international affairs: journal of the South African Institute of International Affairs, Volume 22, Issue 3, p. 359-380
ISSN: 1938-0275