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From apartheid to the planetary present: breaching time in Nadine Gordimer’s “Something Out There” 从种族隔离到地球的当下:纳丁·戈迪默的《外面的东西》打破时间
IF 0.5 3区 社会学
Social Dynamics-A Journal of African Studies Pub Date : 2022-05-04 DOI: 10.1080/02533952.2022.2085856
E. Smuts
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Examining the meanings of ‘restitution’ for beneficiaries of the Macleantown and Salem restitution cases in the Eastern Cape, South Africa 研究南非东开普省麦克利恩敦和塞勒姆归还案件受益人的“归还”含义
IF 0.5 3区 社会学
Social Dynamics-A Journal of African Studies Pub Date : 2022-05-04 DOI: 10.1080/02533952.2022.2103617
Mzingaye Brilliant Xaba
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引用次数: 1
Tapestry, ideology and counter voices in Southern Africa during apartheid 种族隔离时期南部非洲的挂毯、意识形态和反对声音
IF 0.5 3区 社会学
Social Dynamics-A Journal of African Studies Pub Date : 2022-05-04 DOI: 10.1080/02533952.2022.2099172
Philippa Hobbs
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Traditional justice mechanisms and reconciliation in Zimbabwe: assessing the benefits 津巴布韦的传统司法机制与和解：评估利益
IF 0.5 3区 社会学
Social Dynamics-A Journal of African Studies Pub Date : 2022-05-04 DOI: 10.1080/02533952.2022.2097992
Darlington Mutanda
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Access to land in difficult times: an ethnographic study of morally compromised strangers in northern Ghana 在困难时期获得土地：对加纳北部道德受损的陌生人的民族志研究
IF 0.5 3区 社会学
Social Dynamics-A Journal of African Studies Pub Date : 2022-03-25 DOI: 10.1080/02533952.2022.2049156
Saibu Mutaru
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The contradictions of black consciousness: from Biko to RhodesMustFall 黑人意识的矛盾:从Biko到RhodesMustFall
IF 0.5 3区 社会学
Social Dynamics-A Journal of African Studies Pub Date : 2022-01-02 DOI: 10.1080/02533952.2022.2045751
M. N. Smith, C. Lester
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引用次数: 1
Rasa and resilience: where to from here Rasa和韧性：从这里到哪里
IF 0.5 3区 社会学
Social Dynamics-A Journal of African Studies Pub Date : 2022-01-02 DOI: 10.1080/02533952.2022.2042961
Reshma Maharajh
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Rethinking resilience: South Africa and self-reliance 重新思考韧性:南非与自力更生
IF 0.5 3区 社会学
Social Dynamics-A Journal of African Studies Pub Date : 2022-01-02 DOI: 10.1080/02533952.2022.2054145
Janeke Thumbran, R. Sacks
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引用次数: 1
Rethinking river resilience: the lower Orange/Gariep river 重新思考河流的恢复力:奥兰治河/加里普河下游
IF 0.5 3区 社会学
Social Dynamics-A Journal of African Studies Pub Date : 2022-01-02 DOI: 10.1080/02533952.2022.2017602
Sindi-Leigh McBride
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[Re-]Creative rites: exploring the materiality of clay and its making processes 创新仪式：探索粘土的物质性及其制作过程
IF 0.5 3区 社会学
Social Dynamics-A Journal of African Studies Pub Date : 2022-01-02 DOI: 10.1080/02533952.2022.2042985
M. Okafor
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