Stephen Louw
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 311557 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Stephen Louw |
| NOMBRES | Stephen |
| APELLIDO | Louw |
| FIRMA | LOUW S |
| AFILIACIONES | University of the Witwatersrand |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-8039-9386 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 15 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 15 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 15 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1992 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2025 |
| ÍNDICE H | 3 |
Report on an audit of two decades’ activities of a clinical ethics committee
BACKGROUND: 'The Clinical Ethics Advisory Group' (CEAG) is the clinical ethics support body for Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals National Health Service Foundation Trust. A significant change in CEAG's way of working occurred over the past 5 years as a result of Court decisions, increasing public expectations and an increase in CEAG's paediatric case flow. PURPOSE: Review historical data: (a) as a useful benchmark to look for the early impact of sig…
AI and politics
Generative artificial intelligence (AI), with its potential to disrupt several industries, including the art industry, has been a controversial subject of discussion in mainstream newspapers. To understand the impact of political ideologies on this controversy, this study compares concerns about AI-generated art between liberals and conservatives. Data comprised comments of readers of the Daily Mail and the Guardian on a news story about an award…
Mission Civilisatrice
Thomas Sankara was an outstanding leader whose integrity and forthright attack on corruption placed him head and shoulders above his contemporaries. He was an Upright Man indeed. But it is less obvious what political lessons should be drawn from his praxis. This article, which is an exercise in political theory rather than historical scholarship, considers three related strands in Sankara’s thought, each of which speak to his ontology. Section I …
Covid-19 as a critical incident
Numbers games, race, gender, power
This article considers the emergence and decline of black-owned numbers games in inter-war Harlem. Numbers became part of the cultural capital of Harlem, a popular activity which functioned as a nodal point in the quilting of everyday life, framing the associated skills and habits of community life in all its discursive and institutional complexity. Numbers provided entertainment as well as employment opportunities, but above all it provided an i…
Chinese Immigrants and Underground Lotteries in South Africa
This article reviews the history of an illegal Chinese-run numbers game or lottery in South Africa. Structurally very similar to games played by Chinese immigrants in the USA, fahfee operations (or banks) provided an illicit accumulation strategy, which allowed entrepreneurial Chinese immigrants to survive at the margins of a discriminatory racial–capitalist order, and to use these enterprises as a platform to enter the mainstream white economy. …
African numbers games and gambler motivation
Journal Article African numbers games and gambler motivation: 'Fahfee' in contemporary South Africa Get access Stephen Louw Stephen Louw Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar African Affairs, Volume 117, Issue 466, January 2018, Pages 109–129, https://doi.org/10.1093/afraf/adx043 Published: 05 December 2017 Article history Received: 08 November 2017 Accepted: 09 November 2017 Published: 05 December 2017
Teacher Trainers' Beliefs About Feedback on Teaching Practice
Contradictory tensions are apparent during the feedback given to pre-service English language teachers by trainers following their practice teaching. Trainers’ beliefs may serve as a resource in dealing with these conflicting tensions. Trainers' beliefs about the feedback they provide during teaching practice conferences were elicited, and feedback on teaching practice across one full course was recorded to investigate the congruence between thes…
Mysterium inequitatis
This article considers, against the background of an extended discussion of Claude Lefort's conception of the birth and specificity of ‘the political’ (le politique), the African National Congress's (ANC's) endorsement of Robert Mugabe's electoral ‘victories’ in Zimbabwe since 2002. The article suggests that this reveals far more than simply bad foreign policy but, more troublingly, is suggestive of a partial if not hostile attitude to political …
Fin de SiécleRussia
In the shadow of the pharaohs
This article considers the Bolsheviks’ proposals to militarize labour. While concerned ostensibly to secure a steady supply of disciplined labour during the civil war, this was clearly seen as a means to effect a transition to communism. Labour militarization was understood as an instrument to suppress commodity production, which would help usher in a new form of socialized labour. The theoretical roots of this policy can be found in Marx's writi…
Unity and Development
This article examines the relationship between the classical Marxist tradition and the conceptual roots of totalitarianism. Here totalitarianism is understood to entail the attempt to frame the developmental impulses of modernity within the logic of a premodern political imaginary—defined as internally homogenous and transparent to itself. In the first part, we take issue with those who try to distinguish between the thought of Marx and Engels, a…
Response to Richard Hudelson
Palliative Marxism or Imminent Critique
In 1956 communists North of the Limpopo discovered, to their horror, that ‘he who had been the leader of progressive humanity, the inspiration of the world, the father of the Soviet people, the master of science and learning, the supreme military genius, and altogether the greatest genius in history was in reality a paranoiac torturer, a mass murderer, and a military ignoramus who had brought the Soviet state to the verge of disaster’ (Kol ̃akows…
Conceptual vicissitudes — socialism and democracy inhas socialism failed
In the shadow of the pharaohs
This article considers the Bolsheviks’ proposals to militarize labour. While concerned ostensibly to secure a steady supply of disciplined labour during the civil war, this was clearly seen as a means to effect a transition to communism. Labour militarization was understood as an instrument to suppress commodity production, which would help usher in a new form of socialized labour. The theoretical roots of this policy can be found in Marx's writi…
Conceptual vicissitudes — socialism and democracy inhas socialism failed
Covid-19 as a critical incident
Mission Civilisatrice
Thomas Sankara was an outstanding leader whose integrity and forthright attack on corruption placed him head and shoulders above his contemporaries. He was an Upright Man indeed. But it is less obvious what political lessons should be drawn from his praxis. This article, which is an exercise in political theory rather than historical scholarship, considers three related strands in Sankara’s thought, each of which speak to his ontology. Section I …
Chinese Immigrants and Underground Lotteries in South Africa
This article reviews the history of an illegal Chinese-run numbers game or lottery in South Africa. Structurally very similar to games played by Chinese immigrants in the USA, fahfee operations (or banks) provided an illicit accumulation strategy, which allowed entrepreneurial Chinese immigrants to survive at the margins of a discriminatory racial–capitalist order, and to use these enterprises as a platform to enter the mainstream white economy. …
Mysterium inequitatis
This article considers, against the background of an extended discussion of Claude Lefort's conception of the birth and specificity of ‘the political’ (le politique), the African National Congress's (ANC's) endorsement of Robert Mugabe's electoral ‘victories’ in Zimbabwe since 2002. The article suggests that this reveals far more than simply bad foreign policy but, more troublingly, is suggestive of a partial if not hostile attitude to political …
Unity and Development
This article examines the relationship between the classical Marxist tradition and the conceptual roots of totalitarianism. Here totalitarianism is understood to entail the attempt to frame the developmental impulses of modernity within the logic of a premodern political imaginary—defined as internally homogenous and transparent to itself. In the first part, we take issue with those who try to distinguish between the thought of Marx and Engels, a…
Conceptual vicissitudes — socialism and democracy inhas socialism failed
Unity and Development
This article examines the relationship between the classical Marxist tradition and the conceptual roots of totalitarianism. Here totalitarianism is understood to entail the attempt to frame the developmental impulses of modernity within the logic of a premodern political imaginary—defined as internally homogenous and transparent to itself. In the first part, we take issue with those who try to distinguish between the thought of Marx and Engels, a…
Response to Richard Hudelson
Palliative Marxism or Imminent Critique
In 1956 communists North of the Limpopo discovered, to their horror, that ‘he who had been the leader of progressive humanity, the inspiration of the world, the father of the Soviet people, the master of science and learning, the supreme military genius, and altogether the greatest genius in history was in reality a paranoiac torturer, a mass murderer, and a military ignoramus who had brought the Soviet state to the verge of disaster’ (Kol ̃akows…
Fin de SiécleRussia
In the shadow of the pharaohs
This article considers the Bolsheviks’ proposals to militarize labour. While concerned ostensibly to secure a steady supply of disciplined labour during the civil war, this was clearly seen as a means to effect a transition to communism. Labour militarization was understood as an instrument to suppress commodity production, which would help usher in a new form of socialized labour. The theoretical roots of this policy can be found in Marx's writi…
Mysterium inequitatis
This article considers, against the background of an extended discussion of Claude Lefort's conception of the birth and specificity of ‘the political’ (le politique), the African National Congress's (ANC's) endorsement of Robert Mugabe's electoral ‘victories’ in Zimbabwe since 2002. The article suggests that this reveals far more than simply bad foreign policy but, more troublingly, is suggestive of a partial if not hostile attitude to political …
Teacher Trainers' Beliefs About Feedback on Teaching Practice
Contradictory tensions are apparent during the feedback given to pre-service English language teachers by trainers following their practice teaching. Trainers’ beliefs may serve as a resource in dealing with these conflicting tensions. Trainers' beliefs about the feedback they provide during teaching practice conferences were elicited, and feedback on teaching practice across one full course was recorded to investigate the congruence between thes…
African numbers games and gambler motivation
Journal Article African numbers games and gambler motivation: 'Fahfee' in contemporary South Africa Get access Stephen Louw Stephen Louw Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar African Affairs, Volume 117, Issue 466, January 2018, Pages 109–129, https://doi.org/10.1093/afraf/adx043 Published: 05 December 2017 Article history Received: 08 November 2017 Accepted: 09 November 2017 Published: 05 December 2017
Chinese Immigrants and Underground Lotteries in South Africa
This article reviews the history of an illegal Chinese-run numbers game or lottery in South Africa. Structurally very similar to games played by Chinese immigrants in the USA, fahfee operations (or banks) provided an illicit accumulation strategy, which allowed entrepreneurial Chinese immigrants to survive at the margins of a discriminatory racial–capitalist order, and to use these enterprises as a platform to enter the mainstream white economy. …
Numbers games, race, gender, power
This article considers the emergence and decline of black-owned numbers games in inter-war Harlem. Numbers became part of the cultural capital of Harlem, a popular activity which functioned as a nodal point in the quilting of everyday life, framing the associated skills and habits of community life in all its discursive and institutional complexity. Numbers provided entertainment as well as employment opportunities, but above all it provided an i…
Covid-19 as a critical incident
Mission Civilisatrice
Thomas Sankara was an outstanding leader whose integrity and forthright attack on corruption placed him head and shoulders above his contemporaries. He was an Upright Man indeed. But it is less obvious what political lessons should be drawn from his praxis. This article, which is an exercise in political theory rather than historical scholarship, considers three related strands in Sankara’s thought, each of which speak to his ontology. Section I …
Report on an audit of two decades’ activities of a clinical ethics committee
BACKGROUND: 'The Clinical Ethics Advisory Group' (CEAG) is the clinical ethics support body for Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals National Health Service Foundation Trust. A significant change in CEAG's way of working occurred over the past 5 years as a result of Court decisions, increasing public expectations and an increase in CEAG's paediatric case flow. PURPOSE: Review historical data: (a) as a useful benchmark to look for the early impact of sig…
AI and politics
Generative artificial intelligence (AI), with its potential to disrupt several industries, including the art industry, has been a controversial subject of discussion in mainstream newspapers. To understand the impact of political ideologies on this controversy, this study compares concerns about AI-generated art between liberals and conservatives. Data comprised comments of readers of the Daily Mail and the Guardian on a news story about an award…
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