In: Transactions of The Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, 2016, vol. 110, no. 11, p. 676-678
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In: sozialpolitik.ch, 2020, vol. 2, no. 3, p. Article: 2.3
The authors argue that there is a need to rethink what a commitment to decent work would mean in the context of South Africa, a country with a large number of long term unemployed. Drawing on their experience of researching work in South Africa, they highlight the relevance of the agency of workers for the progressive realisation of a decent work agenda. The lukewarm response of the government to...
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In: Discourse Studies, 2018, vol. 20, no. 6, p. 1-17
This paper seeks to extend existing models of argumentation by considering an important dimension of real-life argumentative discourse: how complex argumentative discussions evolve over time. We define a complex argumentative discussion as a multi-issue discussion, in which the different issues are interrelated in the form of a hierarchy. We claim that justified reframing might be used to...
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In: Systematic Biology, 2003, vol. 52, no. 5, p. 717-723
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In: Transactions of The Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, 2001, vol. 95, no. 5, p. 517-518
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In: Journal of Mammalogy, 2009, vol. 90, no. 3, p. 724-731
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In: The Cambridge Journal of Anthropology, 2015, vol. 33, no. 1, p. 81-96
This article takes as its starting point a peculiar land claim within the ongoing South African land restitution process – more specifically, the legal and administrative technicalities that allowed for the implosion of the accompanying court case in the Land Claims Court – to open up a space for reflection on the ambiguous nature of state bureaucracies as ambiguity-reducing machines. Tracing...
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Thèse de doctorat : Università della Svizzera italiana, 2016 ; 2016COM012.
Tourism is often introduced as a subject in formal education curricula because of the increasing and significant economic contribution of the tourism industry to the private and public sector. This is especially the case in emerging economies in Asia and Africa (Hsu, 2015; Mayaka Cuffy et al., 2012). Tourism in South Africa – which is the geographical setting of this research...
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In: South African Medical Journal, 2016, vol. 106, no. 5, p. 449–450
The polymyxin antibiotic colistin is an antibiotic of last resort for the treatment of extensively drug-resistant Gram-negative bacteria, including carbapenemase- producing Enterobacteriaceae. The State of the World’s Antibiotics report in 2015 highlighted South Africa (SA)’s increasing incidence of these ‘superbugs’ (3.2% of Klebsiella pneumoniae reported from SA were carbapenemase...
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Thèse de doctorat : Università della Svizzera italiana, 2010.
The subject of the study are telecentres, public places where people can access information through ICT, and which should fulfill the communication needs of the communities in which they are located. The central question of this thesis sprang from the study of the available literature and from nine exploratory field studies carried out in West Africa (in Burkina Faso, Benin, Guinea and...
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