Every culture and society has read stories in the night sky. From the careful attention of astronomers across all times and all parts of the world to the search for alien life, the stories found in the shapes of constellations to the expansive imaginings of science fiction, there has always been life up there, at the very least, for our imaginations. Mythologies of Outer Space brings together a…
Critical management studies in South Africa: Directions and contexts’ represents the second formalised work on critical management studies (CMS) in South Africa. Following 5 years after ‘Critical management studies in the South African context’, this book shows how CMS scholarship is starting to develop a character of its own in South Africa. It attests to…
Our starting point for this Handbook is a conviction that the best form of post-conflict government is a democratic one. This is not so much a principled stand as a pragmatic one. Winston Churchill famously expressed a similar pragmatism when he remarked: “Democracy is the worst form of government except all those other forms that have been tried from time to time”. It may not be perfect, b…