AA 2022 Volume 54 Issue 1
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Precarity, ungrievability, and thinking beyond the law: a framework for understanding the position of LGB individuals in South Africa
(University of the Free State, 2022)Drawing primarily on the work of Judith Butler and Drucilla Cornell, this paper aims to provide a theoretical framework for understanding the position of sexual minorities in South Africa. This will be done particularly ... -
When reason is not enough for social cohesion: rethinking the place of emotion and art in politics
(University of the Free State, 2022)Reason has often been defended as critical for the prudent harmonisation of competing interests, security and social cohesion in organised societies. Human rationality however, now appears inadequate to cope with the spate ... -
Knowledge work in the age of control: capitalising on human capital
(University of the Free State, 2022)The main claim that I aim to substantiate in this article is that power in the form of control is exerted in a more insidious manner now that knowledge work has become ‘networked’. To this end, I first describe societal ... -
Negotiating belonging: the case of Francophone Cameroonian migrants in Pretoria
(University of the Free State, 2022)Francophone Cameroonian migrants in Pretoria face challenges such as language barriers. The migrants are not easily accepted by locals and often face discrimination and harassment that influence their sense of belonging ... -
Economic inequality and trust from a Smithian perspective
(University of the Free State, 2022)Globally, and specifically in South Africa, income and wealth inequality are on the increase. This has negative consequences for socio-political stability and sustainable economic growth. These negative consequences are ... -
The middle remains missing: class exclusion from the urban rental market in suburban Johannesburg
(University of the Free State, 2022)There is a huge demand for housing in Johannesburg, South Africa, due to significant in-migration as well as the legacy of apartheid. Rental housing supply in Johannesburg is particularly constrained. Despite this, little ... -
Platform: in theory
(University of the Free State, 2415)Platform has moved – and we accept that it will be a while before our new and welcoming location in Acta Academica becomes known, beyond the journal’s regular readers. Even in its short life to date the site has presented ... -
Reflections on The Good Ancestor
(University of the Free State, 2022)Roman Krznaric’s The Good Ancestor: How to Think Long Term in a Short-Term World (2020) is about developing an argument for long-term thinking. In Part 1 he takes up a question posed by Jonas Salk, who was part of the ... -
A good ancestor
(University of the Free State, 2022)In The Good Ancestor, Roman Krznaric presents a compelling argument about our responsibility to future generations. He highlights that in order to be good ancestors to the future generations we need to make a shift from ... -
Short- vs long-term vs the middle-ground in critical socioeconomic and environmental planning
(University of the Free State, 2022)Roman Krznaric’s The Good Ancestor provides an account of how temporal thinking drives critical global planning. In particular, Krznaric denotes the effect of extensive short-term thinking, i.e. thinking driven by achieving ... -
Interaction with The Good Ancestor
(University of the Free State, 2022)The Good Ancestor is a call to arms for an overthrow of an outmoded system and the rise of a radical new order. Drawing at times on metaphors of the liberation of oppressed colonised people, it draws our attention to the ...
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