Elusive Identities: Karoo |Xam Descendants and the Square Kilometre Array

Parkington, John; Morris, David; Prada-Samper, José Manuel de

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“…Walker and Chinigò (2018) do not specify how they identified the widespread demand for access to the land to re-establish identity. The article by Parkington et al (2019) disputes the commonly accepted version of the location of specific San groups in the Karoo. The articles by Walker (2019) and Chinigò (2019) focus on what they regard as problems with the SKA SA in the Karoo, especially with regard to development and its impact on the way local San people identify themselves.…”

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“…There has been some criticism from social anthropologists and social scientists with regard to the work the NRF|SARAO (National Research Foundation | South African Radio Astronomy Observatory) is conducting with the San people and specifically the San Council. The criticism is based primarily on online documents referring to the Memorandum of Understanding with the San Council and interviews with selected individuals from one specific community (Chinigò 2019;Walker & Chinigò 2018;Parkington et al 2019;Walker 2019). A key criticism of the SKA SA project in these articles (Parkington et al 2019;Walker 2019) is that it has sterilised the land in the Northern Cape and has dispossessed the descendants of the |Xam people from reclaiming their identity.…”

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“…The criticism is based primarily on online documents referring to the Memorandum of Understanding with the San Council and interviews with selected individuals from one specific community (Chinigò 2019;Walker & Chinigò 2018;Parkington et al 2019;Walker 2019). A key criticism of the SKA SA project in these articles (Parkington et al 2019;Walker 2019) is that it has sterilised the land in the Northern Cape and has dispossessed the descendants of the |Xam people from reclaiming their identity. A second criticism is that the development plans introduced by the project are top-down and not conceived by the local people, especially the |Xam descendants.…”

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Star Stories: Using Indigenous Knowledge for Stakeholder Engagement

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2020

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Radio astronomy projects require large open spaces with minimal radio frequency interference, light and air pollution. Often, indigenous minorities such as the San in South Africa and the Wajarri Aboriginal peoples in Western Australia live on this land or have cultural rights to the land. Communication and engagement challenges with these stakeholders include language, culture, cultural heritage and stakeholder expectations. This study shows how the Square Kilometre Array South Africa (SKA SA) used the narratives and indigenous knowledge of astronomy of the San peoples of South Africa to facilitate some stakeholder engagement. These narratives were originally documented by Bleek and Lloyd (1911). Different versions of these narratives are still being told in the Central Karoo region of South Africa by the descendants of the San people. The key finding was that narratives are an effective method of creating a communication and engagement platform and for fostering collaboration, particularly for astronomy projects where the establishment of common ground among stakeholders could be challenging. The study concluded that it is important for astronomy projects and science communication to invest in indigenous knowledge systems and to preserve and recover cultural heritage as far as possible for the benefit of future research. In this way, beneficial stakeholder collaboration can be facilitated and progress can be made towards the achievement of global sustainability goals.

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“…Gastrow and Oppelt (2019: 721) describe the SKA's approach to this process as exhibiting 'an arguably paternalistic concern' that the workers 'would fall into the all too familiar trap of alcohol and drugs' once living in town. The San Council was brought from distant Upington to bless the core astronomy site, but the local descendants of those dispossessed of land rights in the very large area impacted by the AAAs were never primary stakeholders in determining how and for whom this land should be used (Parkington et al, 2019).…”

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Beyond Expropriation Without Compensation

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Speeding up land reform through a constitutional amendment that would explicitly permit the expropriation of land without compensation has dominated legal and political-policy debates in South Africa in recent years. Taking this politically and emotionally charged issue as its starting point, this volume offers both expert commentary on this issue from a variety of disciplinary perspectives and also fresh ideas on how to advance the redistributive transformation that South Africa so urgently needs. It brings critically important debates around transformative property law, the need for diversified land justice and the possibilities of alternative forms of redistribution into productive conversation with each other. While grounded in the complex realities of South Africa's past and present, the volume speaks to concerns that resonate in many contexts in the Global South and beyond. It will appeal to scholars, students, policymakers and general readers concerned with both the theory and practice of redistributive justice. This title is also available as Open Access on Cambridge Core.

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“…globalcodeofconduct.org/affiliated-codes/). Their representation is not supported by all community members and is outwardly questioned by some (for a critique on the SASC's representativeness, see Parkington et al [56]). The SASC do not have a website, so can be difficult to locate, and when researchers do manage to contact them, the SASC often fail to respond.…”

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A cross-cultural investigation of young children's spontaneous invention of tool use behaviours

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Through the mechanisms of observation, imitation and teaching, young children readily pick up the tool using behaviours of their culture. However, little is known about the baseline abilities of children's tool use: what they might be capable of inventing on their own in the absence of socially provided information. It has been shown that children can spontaneously invent 11 of 12 candidate tool using behaviours observed within the foraging behaviours of wild non-human apes (Reindl et al . 2016 Proc. R. Soc. B 283 , 20152402. ( doi:10.1098/rspb.2015.2402 )). However, no investigations to date have examined how tool use invention in children might vary across cultural contexts. The current study investigated the levels of spontaneous tool use invention in 2- to 5-year-old children from San Bushmen communities in South Africa and children in a large city in Australia on the same 12 candidate problem-solving tasks. Children in both cultural contexts correctly invented all 12 candidate tool using behaviours, suggesting that these behaviours are within the general cognitive and physical capacities of human children and can be produced in the absence of direct social learning mechanisms such as teaching or observation. Children in both cultures were more likely to invent those tool behaviours more frequently observed in great ape populations than those less frequently observed, suggesting there is similarity in the level of difficulty of invention across these behaviours for all great ape species. However, children in the Australian sample invented tool behaviours and succeeded on the tasks more often than did the Bushmen children, highlighting that aspects of a child's social or cultural environment may influence the rates of their tool use invention on such task sets, even when direct social information is absent.

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Elusive Identities: Karoo |Xam Descendants and the Square Kilometre Array

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