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  1. 11. Dying to make a fresh start : mortality and health transition in a new South Africa

    Författare :Kathleen Kahn; Anneli Ivarsson; Stig Wall; Michel Garenne; Debbie Bradshaw; Vinod Diwan; Umeå universitet; []
    Nyckelord :MEDICIN OCH HÄLSOVETENSKAP; MEDICAL AND HEALTH SCIENCES; age-specific mortality; agincourt; demographic surveillance system; epidemiologic transition; health transition; mortality trends; rural; South Africa; verbal autopsy; vital registration.; Epidemiology; Epidemiologi;

    Sammanfattning : Rationale: Vital registration is lacking in developing settings where health and development problems are most pressing. Policy-makers confront an “information paradox”: the critical need for information on which to base priorities and monitor progress, and the profound shortage of such information. LÄS MER

  2. 12. Resisting feminised precarity : Farm workers in post-strike Western Cape, South Africa

    Författare :Åsa Eriksson; Lena Gemzöe; Camilla Elmhorn; Irene Molina; Stockholms universitet; []
    Nyckelord :SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; gender; race ethnicity; precarity; feminisation of labour; resistance; intersectionality; farm work; South Africa; Sweden; genusvetenskap; Gender Studies;

    Sammanfattning : This dissertation seeks to contribute to the body of research on gender, neoliberal globalisation and work, and on the forms of resistance people engage in within a deeply unequal global order. It was devised in relation to developments during and after widespread, unprecedented labour and social protests among farm workers in export-oriented agriculture in the Western Cape, South Africa, 2012–2013. LÄS MER

  3. 13. Democratisation, Traditional Leadership and Reform Politics in South Africa

    Författare :Annika Mokvist Uggla; Axel Hadenius; Lars Rudebeck; Stein Sundstol Eriksen; Uppsala universitet; []
    Nyckelord :Political science; Democratisation; traditional leadership; local government reform; South Africa; state efficiency; nation-building; Traditional Leadership and Governance Framework Act 2003 ; Communal Land Rights Act 2004 ; Statsvetenskap; statskunskap; statskunskap;

    Sammanfattning : The aim of this study of democratisation and traditional leadership in South Africa is to understand why government efforts to democratise areas under traditional leadership surprisingly resulted in the maintenance of certain aspects of hereditary rule in official governance. Theory suggests that the answer is found in a dilemma faced by politicians, as they have to undertake reform with a view to advance four potentially contradictory political goals: democracy, state efficiency, state unity and, finally, re-election. LÄS MER

  4. 14. Elderly South Africans' in transition : the daily life circumstances, beliefs concerning health and illness and the influences on caring and family structure

    Författare :Doris Bohman; Karolinska Institutet; Karolinska Institutet; []
    Nyckelord :MEDICIN OCH HÄLSOVETENSKAP; MEDICAL AND HEALTH SCIENCES; Activities of daily living; Aged; Changing society; Elderly; Ethnography; Family; Health and illness beliefs; Interpretive phenomenology; Keeping normality; Modernization; Reciprocity; South Africa; Tradition; Transition; Activities of daily living; changing society; Elderly; Ethnography; Keeping normality; South Africa; health and illness beliefs; interpretive phenomenology; transition; aged; family; modernization; reciprocity; tradition;

    Sammanfattning : The overall aim of this thesis was to shed light on different aspects of elderly South Africans experiences in a transitional period in order to reach culturally contextual knowledge within gerontological care. The research objectives were to: identify and describe daily life and related concerns and interests as expressed by a group of elderly (I), illuminate how a group of elderly South Africans experience being old in a transitional period (II), study how a group of aged South Africans and their family members describe their intergenerational relations in a transitional period i. LÄS MER

  5. 15. Dis-placed Desires : Space and Sexuality in South African Literature

    Författare :Sanja Nivesjö; Stefan Helgesson; Ann-Sofie Lönngren; Ingo Berensmeyer; Andrew van der Vlies; Stockholms universitet; []
    Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; sexuality; space; place; queer theory; Sara Ahmed; Lefebvre; Foucault; South African literature; South Africa; Olive Schreiner; R. R. R. Dhlomo; Nadine Gordimer; J. M. Coetzee; Bessie Head; Phaswane Mpe; Damon Galgut; English; engelska; English;

    Sammanfattning : This study provides a diachronic view of the interweaving of space and sexuality, their interdependency and mutually constitutive aspects, in seven South African English language novels from the early twentieth century until the first decade of the twenty-first century. A key contention is that it is precisely a co-constitutive depiction of space and sexuality that has arisen in this literature as a response to a socio-political climate which has exercised harsh regulation in these two areas. LÄS MER