African Trade Unions (FOSATU) in the first half of the 1980s ( Friedman 2011 ). Most of all, I want to suggest that the workplace culture envisioned by Turner – a central element in his broad and deep commitment to ‘participatory democracy’ and his
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Daniel Lord Smail
, by and large, have lost this sunny sense of optimism about the possibility of progress. As a graduate student in the late 1980s, I was taught that the first serious doubts arose in the wake of the Holocaust, as historians began to confront the horrors
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Maria Russo
, ‘Introduction: Sartre's Last Words’, in Jean-Paul Sartre and Benny Lévy, Hope Now: The 1980s Interviews , trans. Adrian Van Den Hoven (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1996), 3-40, here 3. And, again, ‘Think of Sartre's fluid intellectual itinerary to the
Joanna Bourke
female victim, while women overestimate how upsetting sexual aggression is to a male victim.” 60 In fact, Buss’s research was done in the 1980s, and rather than showing a universal pattern differentiating male versus female responses, it is based on a
Amanda H. Littauer
early 1980s described growing up in Wheaton, Illinois. She recalled: “I was in love with my junior high PE teacher,” for whom “I would have run through fire,” and “also had this huge crush on my high school English teacher,” for whom “I would have done
Whitewashing History
Pinker’s (Mis)Representation of the Enlightenment and Violence
Philip Dwyer
done on the impact of violence on the screen, big and small, on children. Finally, can we ever really “feel” the pain of others? It is a question Elaine Scarry posed in the 1980s; she did not believe we could. 7 It adds an additional layer to the
Ajume H. Wingo
or from foreign NGOs. African states still serve as the leading examples of political corruption, conflict and fraud, and they are a recurring source of health crises (from politically induced famine in the 1980s, to malaria and Ebola in Liberia
Contested Memory
Retrieving the Africanist (Liberatory) Conception of Non-racialism
Ndumiso Dladla
National Congress Youth League, the Pan-Africanist Congress of Azania in the 1950s, the Black Consciousness Movement of Azania in the 1960s and 1970s, the Azanian Peoples Organisation in the 1980s and more recently by the #RhodesMustFall Movement and the
Contesting Paradigms in Society’s Poverty Alleviation and Development Arena
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Sunday Paul Chinazo Onwuegbuchulam and Khondlo Mtshali
point of departure the Liberal system’s emphasis on the individual and rationality. According to Sirianni and Friedland (2001: 1) , ‘Communitarianism emerged in the 1980s as a response to the limits of liberal theory and practice. Its dominant themes
Neoliberalism, Hedonism and the Dying Public
Reclaiming Political Agency through the Exercise of Courage
Grant M. Sharratt and Erik Wisniewski
mid-1980s. Yet, the kind of hedonism that we are describing here is not entirely dependent on the disposable income associated with the lavish kind of hedonism that is often envisioned; rather, this more humble form of neoliberal hedonism is more