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Gathering Voices. Perspectives on the Social Sciences

in Southern Africa

Editors: Teresa Cruz María e Silva,

Ari Sitas

 

Contents

Introduction. Southern African Social Science in the Late 20th Century by Teresa Cruz María e Silva and Ari Sitas

Section One: The Social Sciences in Southern Africa

Globalisation, Social Science and Development. A Mauritanian Perspective by Sheila Bunwaree

Social Science in Southern Africa: A Refelction on the Role of Sociology in Youth and Development by Pembelani Mufune

Sociology and Social Research in South Africa by Charles Crothers

The Social Sciences in Mozambique. Some Theoretical and Institutional Questions by Alexandrino José

Section Two: Southern Africa in Transition

"The Glowing Fire of our Patriotism". The Constitutional Court, Civil Society and Constitutional Patriotism in South Africa by Elsa van Huyssteen

Commissions of Inquiry and Policy-Making in South Africa. Between the "Grand Tradition" and Democratic Corporatism by Eddie Webster and Sakhela Bulungu

Jettisoning Justice. The Case of Amnesty in South Africa by Fred Hendricks

Section Three: Women and Gender Equity

Women's Empowerment and Organisation in Mozambique by Isabella Casimiro

Possibilities for Redistribution. Rural Women in South Africa Today by Shamim Meer

Section Four: Afrocentrism or Afropessimism

Feminist Methodology and Research Among Rural African Women in the Transkei by Nhlanhla Jordan

A Disenchanted Modernity. The Accomodation of African Medicine in Contemporary South Africa by Thokozani Xaba

Beyond Afropessimism. Identity and Development in a Globalising World by Ari Sitas

 

Proceedings of the ISA Conference for Southern Africa
Durban, South Africa, July, 1996