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Discourses, Dynamics and Disquiet: Multiple Knowledges in Science, Society and Development

This editorial for our special issue reflects on the fact that the emerging relationships between science, technology and processes of social change are providing a fertile field for analysts and practitioners engaged in the diversity of what we might define as development studies, yet also challenge them to engage more effectively with complex dynamics and multiple knowledges.

Klaar Gesnap as Kleurling: The Attempted Making and Remaking of the Griqua People

Understanding Participation Through Science and Technology

Published by: IDS

Science and technology need society. But does society need science and technology? This is one of the questions posed in this issue of the IDS Bulletin, which brings together insights from Science and Technology Studies (STS) and Development Studies (DS).

When Social Movements Bypass the Poor: Asbestos Pollution, International Litigation and Griqua Cultural Identity

This article examines citizen mobilisation and activism in relation to asbestos disease and litigation.

I’ve Got the Dust as Well’: Asbestos Disease, Litigation and Laggers

Published by: IDS

Asbestos diseases are closely associated with cancer and death. They are therefore widely recognised for their insidious, fearsome and tainted nature. Through an examination of stress associated with disease, the paper explores the medical and legal framings of asbestos disease in the UK and complements them with an investigation of laggers?

The Griqua Conundrum: Political and Socio-Cultural Identity in the Northern Cape, South Africa

Published by: Peter Lang

This book offers a reconceptualisation of indigenous people and their political involvement. It demonstrates the deep intertwining of constructions of indigenousness and identity with national, social and political histories and argues that differences and fractures within the indigenous movement - between leaders, spokespeople and ordinary men and women - shape the nature of indigenous politics both nationally and internationally.

Health in a Dynamic World

Published by: STEPS Centre

This paper argues that we are approaching a major turning point in the organisation of national and global health systems.

Understanding Policy Processes: A Review of IDS Research on the Environment

Published by: IDS

For over a decade, researchers in the IDS Environment Group have been engaging with a growing body of work on policy processes which encompasses among other things: the relationship between science, expertise and policy, political interests, public participation and network theory.

Community, Family and Intimate Relationships: An Exploration of Domestic Violence in Griquatown, South Africa

This paper explores domestic violence in the rural location of Griquatown, South Africa. Although academics have long recognised that...