Severe Self-Mutilation Among Kenyan Psychotics

1986 ◽  
Vol 149 (6) ◽  
pp. 778-780 ◽  
Author(s):  
E. A. P. Muluka ◽  
M. Dhadphale
Keyword(s):  
Clinical Practice ◽  
Third World ◽  
Case Reports ◽  
Review Of The Literature ◽  
Bodily Harm ◽  
The Third ◽  
Self Mutilation ◽  
To Come ◽  
One Year ◽  
The Third World

Four case reports are presented of psychotic patients seen in clinical practice in Nairobi over a period of one year, who inflicted serious bodily harm to themselves during that period. Possible psychopathological basis for this self-damage is briefly considered. A review of the literature reveals paucity of similar reports from Africa and the third world. Reasons for this paucity are hard to come by.

Aliens and Citizens: The Case for Open Borders

1987 ◽  
Vol 49 (2) ◽  
pp. 251-273 ◽  
Author(s):  
Joseph H. Carens
Keyword(s):  
Political Theory ◽  
Third World ◽  
Final Part ◽  
Michael Walzer ◽  
Human Beings ◽  
The Third ◽  
Oppressed People ◽  
Open Borders ◽  
To Come ◽  
The Third World

Many poor and oppressed people wish to leave their countries of origin in the third world to come to affluent Western societies. This essay argues that there is little justification for keeping them out. The essay draws on three contemporary approaches to political theory — the Rawlsian, the Nozickean, and the utilitarian — to construct arguments for open borders. The fact that all three theories converge upon the same results on this issue, despite their significant disagreements on others, strengthens the case for open borders and reveals its roots in our deep commitment to respect all human beings as free and equal moral persons. The final part of the essay considers communitarian objections to this conclusion, especially those of Michael Walzer.

Literary Colonialism: Books in the Third World

1975 ◽  
Vol 45 (2) ◽  
pp. 226-236 ◽  
Author(s):  
Philip Altbach
Keyword(s):  
Third World ◽  
The Third ◽  
Body Of Knowledge ◽  
Industrialized Nations ◽  
The World ◽  
Publishing Houses ◽  
Literary Colonialism ◽  
To Come ◽  
The Third World ◽  
Relationship Of

Most Third World people have limited access to the world body of knowledge, and even information about their own countries is often hard to come by. One reason is that the majority of publishing houses in the world are either located in the West or controlled by Westerners. In this essay, the author describes the difficulty of publishing in the Third World as part of a larger relationship of dependence of developing countries on industrialized nations. The author, who has done research in India and published a number of books in that country, concludes his discussion with suggestions for expanding Third World autonomy in the area of knowledge production.

scholarly journals Have Duct Tape, Will Travel

2005 ◽  
Vol 127 (06) ◽  
pp. 40-41
Author(s):  
Jeffrey Winters
Keyword(s):  
Mechanical Engineer ◽  
Third World ◽  
Massachusetts Institute ◽  
Massachusetts Institute Of Technology ◽  
The Third ◽  
New Type ◽  
Institute Of Technology ◽  
To Come ◽  
The Third World ◽  
Simple Materials

This article discusses how Amy Smith, a mechanical engineer at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge, has turned simple materials into life-changing tools. One of the first was developing a new type of grain mill that could revolutionize the lives of women in the Third World. A motor-driven mill can accomplish the same task in just a couple of minutes, but motorized mills are difficult to come by and expensive to maintain. Smith realized that coming up with a simpler, cheaper mill would be a boon for many families. Often in underdeveloped areas, this grinding must be done by hand, with women crushing the kernels between a rock or mortar and a flat stone or bowl. Smith’s group has developed a clamp for controlling intravenous fluid that could help nurses care for more patients during an epidemic.

Waiting and the Legacy of Apartheid

Matatu ◽  
2016 ◽  
Vol 48 (1) ◽  
pp. 19-32
Author(s):  
Remi Akujobi
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
South African ◽  
Family Life ◽  
Social Reproduction ◽  
Third World ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Literary Production ◽  
The Third ◽  
To Come ◽  
The Third World

With debates about the issues of liberation, centering, and empowerment dominating the African literary landscape, particularly in works written by women, it is not surprising to find that the issue of ‘waiting’ occupies centre stage in Njabulo Ndebele’s novel The Cry of Winnie Mandela (2003). Much, of course, has been written on this work, which focuses on the peculiar problems facing women in contemporary South Africa, but the object of this essay is to examine the theme of waiting as it is made manifest in the literary production of the Third-World level of South African life under apartheid. The background to this literature is infiltration, colonialism, and exploitation in the lives of simple people struggling for survival and meaning in a harsh world. Through complex negotiations, women are attempting to come to terms with their increasingly visible role as breadwinners in the absence of their menfolk. This produces unexpected reconfigurations, personal and familial. One question addressed is whether these reconfigurations represent a crisis in the relations of social reproduction or a transition to new forms of family life. The novel is characterized by elements of the fantastic and mythical woven into a deceptively simple story that scrutinizes society at its base in a state of post-apartheid hangover.

Design in Developing Countries 1950 – 1985: a summing-up

1986 ◽  
Vol 11 (2) ◽  
pp. 44-51 ◽  
Author(s):  
Victor Papanek
Keyword(s):  
Developing Countries ◽  
Alternative Energy ◽  
Third World ◽  
Extended Period ◽  
Developed Countries ◽  
The Third ◽  
To Come ◽  
The 1960S ◽  
The Third World ◽  
International Experts

Since 1950, and increasingly through the 1960s, designers from developed countries tried to help with the design problems of developing societies. They were usually more successful when they lived in the country in question for an extended period and worked closely with local people. During the 1970s developing countries became more independent and able to design for themselves. Little has been written about design in the Third World other than official and conference reports. A seminar in 1975 demonstrated that cooperation between countries, leading to self-help, should replace reliance on ‘international experts’. The most urgent need now is for a breakthrough in alternative energy technology, and this is most likely to come from the Third World.

Power for development. Electricity in the Third World

IEE Review ◽  
1989 ◽  
Vol 35 (3) ◽  
pp. 101
Author(s):  
Mohan Munasinghe
Keyword(s):  
Third World ◽  
The Third ◽  
The Third World
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