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Ethical journalism in a time of AIDS
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of AIDS Research • Authors: Franz KrügerThe media's role in fighting the AIDS pandemic has come under scrutiny due to the scale of the pandemic, the breadth of its impact and the accompanying stigma and denial. There have been calls for the mobilisation of the media... -
Ostrich recruitment dynamics in relation to rainfall in the Mara–Serengeti ecosystem
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Ostrich: Journal of African Ornithology • Authors: JosephO Ogutu --- Institute of Crop Science, Germany Hans-Peter Piepho --- Institute of Crop Science, Germany HollyT Dublin --- Species Survival Commission, International Union for Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources, c/o Centre for Biodiversity Conservation, South AfricaAnimal population dynamics can be driven by rainfall variability through its influence on habitat suitability, availability and nutritional sufficiency of forage. To understand how rainfall influences ostriches, we related changes in ostrich recruitment in the Mara–Serengeti ecosystem to rainfall. Over... -
Codes and Dignity: Thinking about ethics in relation to research on violence
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Anthropology Southern Africa • Authors: Fiona C. Ross --- Dept. Social Anthropology, South AfricaBeginning with an anecdote concerning consent forms, the paper offers a critique of assumptions that legalistic protocols offer an adequate guarantee of ethical research. Drawing on research on the South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission, it explores some of the... -
The Illusion of Truth in Three Kenyan Crime Novels
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Eastern African Literary and Cultural Studies • Authors: Larry Ndivo --- Department of Linguistics & Languages, KenyaFocusing on crime autobiography in Kenya, this article reads John Kiriamiti’s three novels, My Life in Crime (1984), My Life with a Criminal: Milly’s Story (1989) and My Life in Prison (2004) to argue that although the writer adopts confession... -
The use of paintings and sketches as scientific knowledge
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Indo-Pacific Journal of Phenomenology • Authors: Knut Ove Æsøy --- , Norway Trine Sofie Dybvikstrand --- , NorwayThis article is written in the field of the philosophy of science. The aim is to express how painting and drawing can be used as part of a phenomenological research method. The painter or drawer is a visual researcher in...