By Aaron Teo, Lecturer in Curriculum and Pedagogy, University of Southern Queensland
A new Ali G film is out, and the old argument is back. Campaigners are pressing cinemas to pull Ali G: Who Iz I?, calling the character a racist caricature. Defenders say the joke was never targeted at the people it appears to mock.
Both sides assume the character must be one thing or another. That assumption is overly simplistic.
Media scholar Simon Weaver offers a better description:…
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By Simon Cropper, Associate Professor, Complex Human Data Hub, Melbourne School of Psychological Sciences, The University of Melbourne
Charles Kemp, Professor, School of Psychological Sciences, The University of Melbourne
Visitors to Lady Elliot Island report seeing a lighthouse far out to sea at night – and scientists have at last figured out why.
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By Amnesty International
African leaders attending the Russia-Africa summit must call on the Russian authorities to immediately end the coercive and deceptive recruitment of African nationals into Russia’s military forces to fight against Ukraine, Amnesty International’s African section directors said in an open letter ahead of the summit, which takes place from 28 to 29 October in Moscow. […] The post Russia: African leaders must use summit to call for an end to trafficking of Africans into Russian military appeared first on Amnesty International. ]]>
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By Annika Surmeier, Senior Lecturer, Graduate School of Business, University of Cape Town, University of Cape Town
Addisu Lashitew, Associate professor, Business, McMaster University
Bongi Bangeni, Senior Lecturer in Educational Development, University of Cape Town
David Littlewood, Senior Lecturer in Strategic Management, University of Sheffield
Gideon Nomdo, Course coordinator: Language in Humanities, University of Cape Town
Kasturi Behari-Leak, Academic Staff Development Lecturer, Centre for Higher Education Development, University of Cape Town
Phyllis Awor, Lecturer in Public Health, Makerere University
African universities can help solve social problems by changing their own institutions, supporting emerging ventures and bringing other problem-solvers together.
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By Grant Martin, Associate Professor; Deputy Director of the Centre for Biological Control, Rhodes University, Rhodes University
Invasive alien brambles have been spreading across South Africa since the early 1900s, having come from North America and Europe. All brambles fall within the genus Rubus. Their common names in South Africa are braam (Afrikaans), ijingijolo (isiZulu) and monoko-metsi (seSotho).
Over the decades, these plants have crept into tree plantations, pastures and native grasslands. Dense, thorny thickets now choke open spaces, and impede livestock and wildlife movement. They restrict access to water, smother young trees used for timber, interfere with plantation…
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By Jessie V. Ford, Assistant Professor, Sociomedical Sciences, Columbia University
For decades, discussions and decisions about access to contraception, abortion, maternal healthcare, HIV prevention and treatment, comprehensive sexuality education, gender equity, and protection from sexual violence have largely flowed in one direction. From the global north to the global south.
Researchers, donors and international organisations have exported programmes, defined success, and determined which questions matter most. How can HIV be prevented? How can contraceptive uptake be…
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By Eric Gordy, Professor of Political and Cultural Sociology, UCL
Serbia’s leaderless anti-corruption coalition, the Student List, defeated the group led by former president Aleksandar Vučić’s Serbian Progressive Party (SNS) by a comfortable margin in October 25 elections.
Their 53.3% of the vote should get them 141 seats in parliament, well clear of the 125 seats needed to form a majority. The SNS can be a loud but ineffectual opposition with the 103 seats netted by their 39.7% of the vote.
The result…
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By Amanda Ellison, Professor of Neuroscience, Durham University
Food cravings may signal an attack already under way so that something eaten before the pain can wrongly take the blame for triggering the migraine.
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By Clíona Ó Gallchoir, Lecturer in English, University College Cork
Travel to England made Swift feel like an oppressed Irish colonial subject while at home he felt like a powerful civilising cog of that same empire.
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By Josh Bland, Postdoctoral researcher of football cultures and heritage, Department of Archaeology, University of Cambridge
First awarded by France Football magazine in 1956, the Ballon d’Or has grown from a relatively modest sporting honour into football’s most prestigious individual accolade. Its recent history has been dominated by the superstar rivalry between Argentina’s Lionel Messi and Portugal’s Cristiano Ronaldo, who combined have won 13 Ballon d'Or awards between 2008 and…
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