AA 2014 Volume 46 Issue 1
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J R Bowen, a new anthropology of Islam
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Isak Niehaus, witchcraft and a life in the new South Africa
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‘Home and away’: the international and its ‘publics’
(University of the Free State, 2014)The paper explores how the academic study of International Relations (IR) seeks out and develops its ‘publics’ and how these serve to propagate the discipline’s founding purpose. The history of the founding of IR, in ... -
‘It’s not just the unions that are cut off from people, but the media too’: reconstituting South Africa’s mediated public sphere
(University of the Free State, 2014)This article draws on the early press coverage of the Marikana massacre to explore the extent to which South Africa’s media transformation has delivered an inclusive public sphere that allows for deliberative debate on ... -
Julius Malema and the postapartheid public sphere
(University of the Free State, 2014)Julius Malema has been one of the most prominent and controversial public figures in post apartheid South Africa. This article examines his impact within the post apartheid public sphere as a space of spectacle. Working ... -
Rethinking the publics, rethinking politics
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Acta Academica, critical views on society, culture and politics
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Higher education and the public good: precarious potential?
(University of the Free State, 2014)Concerns about, and critiques of neo liberal policy regimes in higher education have heightened the search for alternative normative and organisational models, many of which have coalesced around the necessity to re ... -
Rethinking Marx rethinking the public
(University of the Free State, 2014)This essay argues that the young Marx’s defence of press freedom in the repressive Germany of his day is more important than the tradition of Orthodox Marxism has generally allowed, and is best considered as a crucial ... -
Vox populi: On the idea of a popular public, somewhat paradoxically
(University of the Free State, 2014)Unprocedural strike action accompanied by high levels of violence pose challenges to union collective bargaining and other representative structures and institutions, evoking notions of the unruly crowd threatening ... -
Theorising emergent public spheres: negotiating democracy, development, and dissent
(University of the Free State, 2014)This article outlines an analytical framework for investigating the variable formation of public life. It suggests that theoretical accounts of the public sphere and related ideas should be thought of less as normative ...
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