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Articles from Acta Academica: Critical views on society, culture and politics
Acta Academica: Critical views on society, culture and politics
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The roots of xenophobia in 19th century imperialism
<jats:p>The contribution provides an explanation of inner-African xenophobia as being rooted in the countermovements to 19th century imperialism. Distinctive property rights constituted differen...
Xenophobia and the end of ontological ubuntu
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A central notion of Ubuntu depicts it as a philosophy unique to African affinity and views Africans as communalistic and Westerners as individualistic. Given the reality of xenophobic p...
“A river with many branches”: song as a response to Afrophobic sentiments and violence in South Africa
<jats:p>The purpose of this article is to examine the symbolic role of song regarding Afrophobia in South Africa – a topic which has received limited attention within local music scholarship. ...
‘Strangers in their own country’: interpreting xenophobic symbology and gang subcultures in vulnerable coloured communities
<jats:p>In South Africa, xenophobia is most used and understood in relation to people from different nationalities, cultures or languages other than South African. Xenophobia is often interprete...
When reason is not enough for social cohesion: rethinking the place of emotion and art in politics
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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 ap...
Economic inequality and trust from a Smithian perspective
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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 gro...
Knowledge work in the age of control: capitalising on human capital
<jats:p>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’. T...