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‘Shanghai Beauties’ and African Desires: Migration, Trade and Chinese Prostitution in Cameroon
This paper discusses the ambivalent attitude of local men towards Chinese migrant sex workers who have become key players in the growing sex business...
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Dilemmas and Opportunities in Gender and Sport-in-Development
Sport can be a powerful, and potentially a radical and transformative tool in empowering girls and women and affecting gender norms and relations...
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Shifting the Focus of Migration Back Home: Perspectives from Southern Africa
Loren B. Landau and Darshan Vigneswaran raise three fundamental critiques about how contemporary migration and development debates are likely to...
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Hazards and Damages
Pokot and Himba pastoralists face environmental as well as political hazards. These hazards are clearly distinguishable along the lines of duration,...
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The Politics of Land Distribution and Race Relations in Southern Africa
This chapter discusses the politics of land distribution and race relations is Southern Africa, with a particular focus on the experiences of the...
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Regional tourism in South Africa: A case of ‘mass tourism of the South’
Regional tourism represents a sub-category of international tourism and refers to ‘intra-regional’ flows of tourists. Although in many parts of the...
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Compulsory Individuality and the Trans/national Family of Nations: The Girl-Child, Bollywood Barbie, and Ms. Worldly Universe
The worlds that I grew up in were trans/national and hybrid. Like many middle-class and upper-middle-class peers in India, I grew up in multiple...
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A Contested Icon
Africa, that is, interpretations of things and traits held as being of African origin, has been pivotal in the process of the commodification of...
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Learning, life history, and productivity
This article introduces a new model of the relationship between growth and learning and tests a set of hypotheses related to the development of adult...
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Indigenous Small Enterprise Development in Africa: Growth and Impact of the Subterranean Economy
The subterranean economy emerged originally as small enterprise activities in response to the problems of survival associated with rapid urbanisation...
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Who's “That Girl”: British, South African, and American Women as Africanist Archaeologists in Colonial Africa (1860s–1960s)
This paper reviews the accomplishments of British, South African, and American women Africanist archaeologists who worked between the 1860s and the...
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Globalization and the Mobilization of Gay and Lesbian Communities
Any consideration of linkages between globalization processes and the development of gay and lesbian movements necessarily raises two questions: (i)...
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The global evidence of early human symboling behaviour
A model of art origins based on the author’s first-hand studies is presented, which differs significantly from the dominant paradigm of these...
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Place, culture, and peace; treaty cities and national culture in mediating contemporary international disputes
Many changes in the political map are the result of negotiation between disputing states. Those discussions are held in states acceptable to the...