The urban geolinguistics of Cape Town

Merwe, IJ Van der

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“…The UK organizers, for example, focused on spreading the word through flyers posted in the local community instead of through social media – perhaps because of this strategy, only two consumers participated at their second carrotmob event. Similarly, South African carrotmobs show limited success and organizers highlight that they could not rely on social media to promote the events, since it was used less prominently in South Africa (Van der Merwe, 2012).…”

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On carrots and mobs

Nassauer

Vasi

2018

Acta Sociologica

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This study explores the global diffusion of a new ethical consumption tactic named carrotmob. We trace the spread of carrotmobs from the US across six continents and compare cases of successful and unsuccessful national diffusion. We argue that the heterogeneous spread of carrotmobs cannot be explained solely by differences in individual characteristics of consumers, such as post-materialist value orientation or income, or in the economic opportunity structures, such as national affluence or the availability of environmental labeled goods. Results from semi-structured interviews with organizers and activists in 15 countries suggest that activist brokers relied on social media to influence mobilization, and that social movement organizations, mass media, and governmental organizations played an important role for the diffusion of those collective actions. Our results support theories of connective action and political opportunities, but contradict theories of statism.

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On carrots and mobs

Nassauer

Vasi

2018

Acta Sociologica

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“…In the South African context, in the changing political environment of the 1990s, Van der Merwe (1993) and Williams and Van der Merwe (1996) anticipated the value of language mapping and pointed to its potential use for language planning 5 in the emerging democracy. Based on pre-1994 census data, their work had a broader, more general societal focus, although reference was also made to the educational domain.…”

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Language mapping for education policy realisation from below

Oliver¹

2013

Language Matters

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In 2006 the Western Cape Education Department (WCED) initialised the LanguageTransformation Plan (LTP) as a strategy to implement the longstanding national Language in Education Policy (DOE 1997). If serious efforts were to be made to expand the transformation plan to all schools across the province, detailed language related information was needed, on various levels of the institution. There is an established use of geographic information systems (GIS) for planning and policy making in fields more traditionally viewed as geographical. Increased accessibility to computer hardware and on-going efforts to create user-friendly software have paved the way for GIS to enter into disciplines such as sociolinguistics in ways that extend beyond simply mapping the distributions of languages in space. This article explores how mapping language-related variables at school level, using GIS, can support language planning and policy implementation from below, by drawing on concepts such as 'public participation GIS' (NCGIA 1996) and 'counter-mapping' (Peluso 1995).

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“…Die basiese benadering in die literatuur wat oor bankwese en kredietverlening handel, is gebaseer op die teorie van die depositovermenigvuldiger. Kragtens hierdie teorie sal oorskotreserwes weens 'n toename in deposito's van banke tot groei in hul bates (die uitleenbedrywighede) lei, wat tot 'n volgende rondte van deposito's aanleiding gee (sien byvoorbeeld Van der Merwe et al, 2014). Hierkragtens word die vermoë van banke om hul bates uit te brei, bepaal deur die formule waar ΔD die verandering in deposito's by banke is, voorgestel as (sien byvoorbeeld Mishkin, 2010):…”

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'n Perspektief op Orania se OSK Koöperatiewe Bank Beperk

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de aan Unisa se Departement Ekonomie, asook 'n navorsingsgenoot by die SA Reserwebank. Hy is 'n aktiewe navorser in die breë veld van monetêre ekonomie, en het artikels gepubliseer oor onderwerpe soos sentralebank-eienaarskap en -onafhanklikheid, monetêre beleidsinstrumente, die verwantskap tussen inflasie en werkloosheid, die sakesiklus, en empiriese model lering. Hy het 'n doktorsgraad in Ekonomie aan die Universiteit van Pretoria verwerf.

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The urban geolinguistics of Cape Town

Cited by 15 publications

References 11 publications

On carrots and mobs

On carrots and mobs

Language mapping for education policy realisation from below

'n Perspektief op Orania se OSK Koöperatiewe Bank Beperk

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