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‘Mutual Accommodation’: Clientelist Politics in South African School Education “相互迁就”:南非学校教育中的庇护主义政治

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Transformation-Critical Perspectives on Southern Africa Pub Date : 2023-08-31 DOI: 10.1353/trn.2022.a905641

S. Meny-Gibert

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Water and the Politics of Rural Service Provision 水和农村服务提供的政治

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Transformation-Critical Perspectives on Southern Africa Pub Date : 2023-08-31 DOI: 10.1353/trn.2022.a905646

Tess N. Peacock

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29 Leads To Love: New and Selected Poems by Salimah Valiani (review) 《通往爱情:萨利玛·瓦利亚尼新诗选集》(书评)

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Transformation-Critical Perspectives on Southern Africa Pub Date : 2023-08-31 DOI: 10.1353/trn.2022.a905648

C. Sandwith

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Introduction: Revenues, Rule, Redistribution 引言:收入、规则、再分配

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Transformation-Critical Perspectives on Southern Africa Pub Date : 2023-08-31 DOI: 10.1353/trn.2022.a905638

Tim Gibbs, L. Phillips, William Beinart, Sinegugu Zukhulu

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Governing in the Shadows: Angola’s Securatised State by Paula Christina Roque (review) 《阴影下的执政:安哥拉的安全国家》，作者:保拉·克里斯蒂娜·罗克

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Transformation-Critical Perspectives on Southern Africa Pub Date : 2023-08-31 DOI: 10.1353/trn.2022.a905649

Claudia Gastrow

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The Effects of Race: The Devastating Effects of Rigid Category-Thinking by Nina Jablonski and Gerhard Maré (review) 《种族的影响:刻板分类思维的毁灭性影响》作者:妮娜·雅布隆斯基、格哈德·马莱尔

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Transformation-Critical Perspectives on Southern Africa Pub Date : 2023-08-31 DOI: 10.1353/trn.2022.a905647

Birgit Schreiber

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The ‘Invisible’ Property System and Revenue Collection in Former Homelands in the Context of Hybrid Governance and Access to Land And Basic Services 混合治理与土地和基本服务获取背景下的“隐形”财产制度与前故土税收

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Transformation-Critical Perspectives on Southern Africa Pub Date : 2023-08-31 DOI: 10.1353/trn.2022.a905642

Avhatakali Sithagu

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Local Municipalities, Central Fiscal Reform, and Regional Blocs: Revenue Relationships and Local Government in Limpopo, 1980–2020 地方自治政府、中央财政改革和区域集团:1980-2020年林波波省的收入关系和地方政府

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Transformation-Critical Perspectives on Southern Africa Pub Date : 2023-08-31 DOI: 10.1353/trn.2022.a905640

Joel Pearson

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‘Mutual Accommodation’: Clientelist Politics in South African School Education “相互迁就”:南非学校教育中的庇护主义政治

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Transformation-Critical Perspectives on Southern Africa Pub Date : 2023-08-31 DOI: 10.1353/trn.2022.a905643

S. Meny-Gibert

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Long-Term Struggles for Land and Related Services: Egalitarian Local Authority in the Eastern Cape’s Border-Kei Region from the Mid-1980s to 2010. 土地和相关服务的长期斗争:20世纪80年代中期至2010年东开普省边界-基地区的平等主义地方当局。

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Transformation-Critical Perspectives on Southern Africa Pub Date : 2023-08-31 DOI: 10.1353/trn.2022.a905639

L. Wotshela

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