scholarly journals Cartographies génériques, spatiales et identitaires en Afrique du Sud : Margie Orford, Lauren Beukes, Henrietta Rose-Innes

2015 ◽  
pp. 69-82
Author(s):  
Mélanie Joseph-Vilain
Keyword(s):  
Science Fiction ◽  
South African ◽  
Rapid Development ◽  
Crime Fiction ◽  
Afrique Du Sud ◽  
The Feminine ◽  
African Context ◽  
Respective Contribution ◽  
Feminine Body ◽  
The City

This article examines how three South African novelists, Margie Orford, Lauren Beukes and Henrietta Rose-Innes, use crime fiction to write their country. After a brief survey of the rapid development of crime fiction in South Africa and of the critical response it received, the article proposes a reading of Like Clockwork, Zoo City and Nineveh, whereby their respective contribution to crime fiction displays three major features : first, Orford’s novel chimes in with generic conventions ; second, Beukes’s novel combines features borrowed from both crime fiction and science fiction ; and last, Rose-Innes’s novel displaces the detective story narrative into a context where « murder » is invested with a symbolic meaning. By handling the investigation theme in a variety of ways, the three novelists adapt it to the South African context and besides show that the feminine body fits in more or less problematically within the space of the city and of the nation.

scholarly journals Societal context-dependent multi-modal transportation network augmentation in Johannesburg, South Africa

PLoS ONE ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 16 (4) ◽  
pp. e0249014
Author(s):  
Thembani Moyo ◽  
Alain Y. Kibangou ◽  
Walter Musakwa
Keyword(s):  
South African ◽  
Transportation Network ◽  
Routing Algorithm ◽  
Minimum Cost ◽  
Weighted Graphs ◽  
Graph Augmentation ◽  
Transportation Services ◽  
Societal Context ◽  
African Context ◽  
The City

In most developing countries, formal and informal transportation schemes coexist without effective and smart integration. In this paper, the authors show how to leverage opportunities offered by formal and informal transportation schemes to build an integrated multi-modal network. Precisely, the authors consider integration of rickshaws to a bus-train network, by taking into account accessibility and societal constraints. By modelling the respective networks with weighted graphs, a graph augmentation problem is solved with respect to a composite cost taking into account constraints on the use of rickshaws. The solution, is based on finding a minimum cost spanning tree of a merged graph. The method is applied in the South African context, in the city of Johannesburg where rickshaws are not yet a significant part of the transportation system. The implications of the study reveal that using non-motorised transportation services is a viable option of improving mobility in the city. The composite cost introduced herein could be used for new routing algorithm including societal, environmental, architectural contexts and commuter experiences through rating.

scholarly journals Towards a fusion of horizons: Thematic contours for an urban public theological praxis-agenda in South Africa

2014 ◽  
Vol 70 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Stephan De Beer ◽  
Ignatius Swart
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
South African ◽  
Social Life ◽  
Right To The City ◽  
Public Theology ◽  
Urban Migration ◽  
Fusion Of Horizons ◽  
The Commons ◽  
African Context ◽  
The City

This article proposes a ‘fusion of horizons’ in constructing urban public theologies in South Africa. This is done through the introduction of five interrelated themes that have emerged from the on-going knowledge and idea production by a distinguishable counterpoint in contemporary scholarly, intellectual and activist engagement with the urban, in the authors’ own South African context but also wider internationally. In advancing a praxis-agenda for urban public theology, the authors subsequently identify the following, albeit not exhaustive, themes: southern urbanisms and the factor of unprecedented urban migration; ‘right to the city’ and urbanisation from below; a reclaiming of the commons; the making of ‘good cities’; and actors of faith in relation to urban social life.

Exploring recidivism in the South African context.

1998 ◽  
Author(s):  
Belinda Bedell ◽  
Nicholas Challis ◽  
Charl Cilliers ◽  
Joy Cole ◽  
Wendy Corry ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
South African ◽  
South African Context ◽  
The South ◽  
African Context

Foucault, Rape, and the Construction of the Feminine Body

Hypatia ◽  
2000 ◽  
Vol 15 (1) ◽  
pp. 43-63
Author(s):  
Ann J. Cahill
Keyword(s):  
The Feminine ◽  
Feminine Body

A Selection of Bandung City Travel Route Using The FLOYD-WARSHALL Algorithm

2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (7) ◽  
Author(s):  
Muhammad Ghifari Arfananda ◽  
◽  
Surya Michrandi Nasution ◽  
Casi Setianingsih ◽  
◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Traffic Congestion ◽  
Rapid Development ◽  
Route Selection ◽  
Tourist Attractions ◽  
Tourist Destinations ◽  
A Value ◽  
Distance Data ◽  
Simple Additive Weighting ◽  
The City ◽  
Selection Of

The rapid development of information and technology, the city of Bandung tourism has also increased. However, tourists who visit the city of Bandung have problems with a limited time when visiting Bandung tourist attractions. Traffic congestion, distance, and the number of tourist destinations are the problems for tourists travel. The optimal route selection is the solution for those problems. Congestion and distance data are processed using the Simple Additive Weighting (SAW) method. Route selection uses the Floyd-Warshall Algorithm. In this study, the selection of the best route gets the smallest weight with a value of 5.127 from the Algorithm process. Based on testing, from two to five tourist attractions get an average calculation time of 3 to 5 seconds. This application is expected to provide optimal solutions for tourists in the selection of tourist travel routes.

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