Megan Jones
Biographic Data
| ID | 3609460 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Megan Jones |
| GIVEN NAMES | Megan |
| FAMILY NAME | Jones |
| SIGNATURE | JONES M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Stellenbosch University |
| ORCID | 0009-0001-4325-3505 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 27 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 43 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 27 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1997 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
The examination of physical function and cognitive outcomes in middle-to-older high-risk adults
Alzheimer’s disease rates are expected to triple by 2050. Early detection and specific mitigation efforts are warranted to blunt the alarming increase. Physical function index (PFI) declines with age; additionally, higher PFI is associated with better cognitive functioning in middle-to-older age individuals. However, most studies utilize one domain of PFI to examine associations with cognition. Therefore, using clustering methods, the purpose of …
The Cambridge Companion to the City in World Literature
This book forges new ground in the relationship between cities and World Literature. Through a series of essays spanning a variety of metropolises, it shows how cities have given rise to key aesthetic dispositions, acts of linguistic and cultural translation, topographic conceptualizations, global imaginaries, and narratives of self-fashioning that are central to understanding World Literature and its debates. Alongside an introduction and three …
Post-Covid symptom profiles and duration in a global convalescent Covid-19 observational cohort
Background: Post-COVID conditions are characterised by persistent symptoms that negatively impact quality of life after SARS-CoV-2 diagnosis. While post-COVID risk factors and symptoms have been extensively described in localised regions, especially in the global north, post-COVID conditions remain poorly understood globally. The global, observational cohort study HVTN 405/HPTN 1901 characterises the convalescent course of SARS-CoV-2 infection am…
Mormon Performance/Performing Mormonism
The Nauvoo Dramatic Association was founded in 1844 to respond to a growing demand for culture and entertainment in the booming young Illinois city. Organized by Joseph Smith, the company was directed by Thomas A. Lyne, a recent convert and professional actor from Philadelphia. The first offering of the society was advertised for performance in the newly dedicated Masonic Hall on April 24, 1844. All were invited to attend Pizarro, or The Death of…
Effects of Formative Assessment Strategies on the Fractions Computation Skills of Students With Disabilities
Learning to compute with fractions is a major challenge for many students and especially for students with disabilities (SWD). Phase 1 of this study employed a randomized pretest–posttest comparison design to test the effects of two versions of formative assessment combined with an instructional program called Fractions at Work. In one condition, teachers used technology-assisted prompts to assess student performance and remediate errors. In the …
Establishing international best practice principles for impact assessment teaching and training
Best Practice Principles for Impact Assessment (IA) Teaching and Training were developed for the International Association for Impact Assessment (IAIA). Research conducted throughout 2018 and 2019 encompassed seven iterative steps: an initial practitioners workshop; comprehensive review of 40 years of literature on teaching IA; initial survey of teachers and trainers; follow-up interviews; development of draft set of principles; final survey of t…
Gearing up impact assessment as a vehicle for achieving the UN sustainable development goals
This article reflects on the potential for impact assessment (IA) to be a major vehicle for implementing the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). While it is acknowledged that the SDGs are intended to deliver broader outcomes than IA currently does, we nevertheless argue there is significant convergence between IA and the SDGs, which we explore utilising the key dimensions of sustainability assessment: comprehensiveness, strategicness and int…
Embracing evolutionary change to advance impact assessment (IA)
Impact assessment (IA) originated as, and continues to be, an instrument that contributes towards sustainable development. In response to the considerable sustainability challenges facing our planet this article argues for the acceleration of IA’s evolutionary approach through focusing on effective practice
Preventing Female Genital Mutilation in the United States
Reading the rubbish dump as a heterotopia in Neill Blomkamp's district 9
I read the rubbish dumps of Neill Blomkamp’s 2009 film District 9 in order to think about how peripheral places and communities can reframe the South African city. In the film, dumps are sites of abandonment and transformation. This doubleness exemplifies Michel Foucault’s privileged site, the heterotopia. I focus on two scenes that take up little of the film’s running time but speak to the possibilities of the dump as more than simply a space of…
Evaluation of the Computer-Based Intervention Program Stayingfit Brazil to Promote Healthy Eating Habits
Interventions via the Internet are promising regarding the promotion of healthy habits among youth. The objective of this study was to evaluate the effect of an adapted version of StayingFit to promote healthy eating habits and the measurement adequacy of anthropometric markers among adolescents. A web school-based 12-month cluster-randomized controlled trial examining 7th to 9th grade students was conducted in twelve schools in Salvador, Bahia, …
As You Like It by William Shakespeare, and
Understanding the long-term influence of EIA on organisational learning and transformation
Junk Aesthetics from South Africa, Brazil and India
My article draws on cultural production from South Africa, Brazil and India to test theorisations that read subjects and objects as ontologically comparable. Using the oceanic circulation of human waste products to link the above locales, I show how the use of junk by the urban poor shows evidence of a relationship with discarded objects that contests their national and transnational marginalisation. Concomitantly, I explore the ways in which aes…
Making sense of significance in environmental impact assessment
Impact significance determination lies at the heart of environmental impact assessment (EIA) but conflict and misunderstanding around the concept is common.This paper attempts to make sense of impact significance in EIA based on four essential components of significance synthesised from the literature to ensure that: (1) a clear operational framework for significance determination applies throughout EIA, (2) attention focuses only on significant …
The train as motif in Soweto poetry
This article considers protest poetry written between 1961 and 1976. I argue that the Soweto poetry of the 1970s enabled activism that would change Johannesburg’s landscape, facilitating the racial mixing of inner city areas and eroding the segregationist policies that had defined the city from its beginnings. Concomitantly, the paper focuses on representations of the train as a site through which black localities were produced as resistance. Via…
Haunting the social
The article discusses the recently published memoir of South African radio celebrity Redi Tlhabi, Endings and Beginnings (2012 Tlhabi, Redi. 2012. Endings and Beginnings: A Story of Healing. Johannesburg: Jacana Press. [Google Scholar]), which is a bestseller in South Africa and recipient of the prestigious Alan Paton non-fiction award for 2013. Following Tlhabi's haunting by the ghosts of her murdered father and her unlikely childhood friend, th…
Fracture and Selfhood in Jacob Dlamini'sNative Nostalgia
The article attempts to interrogate formations of the self in post-apartheid black writing. Drawing on Jacob Dlamini's Native Nostalgia, it traces mutable formations of the black subject across temporalities and spatialities. Following Theodor Adorno's dialectics of non-identity (1972 Adorno, T. 1972. Negative Dialectics. London: Continuum. [Google Scholar]), I argue that emphasis on the historical and locational particularities of township life …
Conspicuous Destruction, Aspiration and Motion in the South African Township
The paper limns modes of consumption and wastefulness in recent South African fiction about the township. It draws upon moves of aspiration and carelessness articulated in the youth practice I’khothane to think through the ways in which conspicuous destruction around car-use maps onto township socialities. Accordingly, it compares Sifiso Mzobe’s Young Blood and David Dinwoodie-Irving’s African Cookboy as texts utilizing scenes of consumption and …
Urbanism and Black Mobility in Peter Abrahams'sMine Boy
This article reads representations of street movement in Peter Abrahams's novel Mine Boy (1946) in order to think through the novel's ideological tensions and their relation to urban space in pre-apartheid Johannesburg. I argue that modalities of movement in the fiction – walking, running, dancing – disclose the organisation of urban life by racist capitalism. Simultaneously, movement enables a shared humanity that transcends rigid categories of …
Cars, capital and disorder in Ivan Vladislavic'sThe Exploded ViewandPortrait with Keys
There is a substantial corpus of criticism on the epistemology of walking in recent writing by Ivan Vladislavic. This article expands upon the literature through a focus on the ways in which The Exploded View and Portrait with Keys engage with and pressurise the socio-spatial dominance of car driving in Johannesburg. It maintains that while car-use radically organises space and place in the city, this hegemony is tested by alternate forms of mobi…
Thoroughly Modern Millie (review)
From Somerset to Samaná
This article aims to contribute new data on periphrastic did by systematically examining its behavior in two varieties of English: Somerset English (SMT), a variety spoken in Southwest England, and Samaná English (SAM), a variety spoken in the Samaná peninsula of the Dominican Republic. We hope to contribute a broader historical and cross-dialectal perspective for understanding the origin and function of periphrastic did in nonstandard varieties …
Free u and the politics of knowledge
Ion (review)
For the past thirty years, the Classical Greek Theatre Festival has been working its way through the entire cannon of extant Greek plays, performing at a number of venues throughout the Salt Lake City area and on tour to colleges throughout the Western states. For their thirtieth anniversary production, they returned to Euripides' Ion, in a new adaptation by David Lan. This production, directed by David Dynak, was a self-consciously postmodern at…
The Demand for and Supply of Technical Information and Analysis in State Legislatures
With states making more substantive decisions in technically complex policy areas, the capacity of state legislatures to gather and use technical information and analysis is crucial. Applying a “market” metaphor, the article examines the demand for and the supply of technical information and analysis in state legislatures. The demand among legislators and staff is widespread and increasing, and the supply is varied in origin, importance, and qual…
Understanding the long-term influence of EIA on organisational learning and transformation
Conspicuous Destruction, Aspiration and Motion in the South African Township
The paper limns modes of consumption and wastefulness in recent South African fiction about the township. It draws upon moves of aspiration and carelessness articulated in the youth practice I’khothane to think through the ways in which conspicuous destruction around car-use maps onto township socialities. Accordingly, it compares Sifiso Mzobe’s Young Blood and David Dinwoodie-Irving’s African Cookboy as texts utilizing scenes of consumption and …
From Somerset to Samaná
This article aims to contribute new data on periphrastic did by systematically examining its behavior in two varieties of English: Somerset English (SMT), a variety spoken in Southwest England, and Samaná English (SAM), a variety spoken in the Samaná peninsula of the Dominican Republic. We hope to contribute a broader historical and cross-dialectal perspective for understanding the origin and function of periphrastic did in nonstandard varieties …
Cars, capital and disorder in Ivan Vladislavic'sThe Exploded ViewandPortrait with Keys
There is a substantial corpus of criticism on the epistemology of walking in recent writing by Ivan Vladislavic. This article expands upon the literature through a focus on the ways in which The Exploded View and Portrait with Keys engage with and pressurise the socio-spatial dominance of car driving in Johannesburg. It maintains that while car-use radically organises space and place in the city, this hegemony is tested by alternate forms of mobi…
The train as motif in Soweto poetry
This article considers protest poetry written between 1961 and 1976. I argue that the Soweto poetry of the 1970s enabled activism that would change Johannesburg’s landscape, facilitating the racial mixing of inner city areas and eroding the segregationist policies that had defined the city from its beginnings. Concomitantly, the paper focuses on representations of the train as a site through which black localities were produced as resistance. Via…
Historicising feminist knowledge
The feminisms of 1970s Australia are often perceived as a unitary, simplistic and predominantly uncomplicated whole. This reification of a feminist moment is repeatedly propagated in a history of Australian feminism that constructs an unsophisticat ed feminism at its beginnings in the 1970s and progresses to the supposedly sophisticated feminisms of the 1990s—feminisms of plurality, multiplicities of meanings and complex specificities. I want to …
Preventing Female Genital Mutilation in the United States
Reading the rubbish dump as a heterotopia in Neill Blomkamp's district 9
I read the rubbish dumps of Neill Blomkamp’s 2009 film District 9 in order to think about how peripheral places and communities can reframe the South African city. In the film, dumps are sites of abandonment and transformation. This doubleness exemplifies Michel Foucault’s privileged site, the heterotopia. I focus on two scenes that take up little of the film’s running time but speak to the possibilities of the dump as more than simply a space of…
Junk Aesthetics from South Africa, Brazil and India
My article draws on cultural production from South Africa, Brazil and India to test theorisations that read subjects and objects as ontologically comparable. Using the oceanic circulation of human waste products to link the above locales, I show how the use of junk by the urban poor shows evidence of a relationship with discarded objects that contests their national and transnational marginalisation. Concomitantly, I explore the ways in which aes…
Haunting the social
The article discusses the recently published memoir of South African radio celebrity Redi Tlhabi, Endings and Beginnings (2012 Tlhabi, Redi. 2012. Endings and Beginnings: A Story of Healing. Johannesburg: Jacana Press. [Google Scholar]), which is a bestseller in South Africa and recipient of the prestigious Alan Paton non-fiction award for 2013. Following Tlhabi's haunting by the ghosts of her murdered father and her unlikely childhood friend, th…
Fracture and Selfhood in Jacob Dlamini'sNative Nostalgia
The article attempts to interrogate formations of the self in post-apartheid black writing. Drawing on Jacob Dlamini's Native Nostalgia, it traces mutable formations of the black subject across temporalities and spatialities. Following Theodor Adorno's dialectics of non-identity (1972 Adorno, T. 1972. Negative Dialectics. London: Continuum. [Google Scholar]), I argue that emphasis on the historical and locational particularities of township life …
Urbanism and Black Mobility in Peter Abrahams'sMine Boy
This article reads representations of street movement in Peter Abrahams's novel Mine Boy (1946) in order to think through the novel's ideological tensions and their relation to urban space in pre-apartheid Johannesburg. I argue that modalities of movement in the fiction – walking, running, dancing – disclose the organisation of urban life by racist capitalism. Simultaneously, movement enables a shared humanity that transcends rigid categories of …
The Demand for and Supply of Technical Information and Analysis in State Legislatures
With states making more substantive decisions in technically complex policy areas, the capacity of state legislatures to gather and use technical information and analysis is crucial. Applying a “market” metaphor, the article examines the demand for and the supply of technical information and analysis in state legislatures. The demand among legislators and staff is widespread and increasing, and the supply is varied in origin, importance, and qual…
Historicising feminist knowledge
The feminisms of 1970s Australia are often perceived as a unitary, simplistic and predominantly uncomplicated whole. This reification of a feminist moment is repeatedly propagated in a history of Australian feminism that constructs an unsophisticat ed feminism at its beginnings in the 1970s and progresses to the supposedly sophisticated feminisms of the 1990s—feminisms of plurality, multiplicities of meanings and complex specificities. I want to …
Ion (review)
For the past thirty years, the Classical Greek Theatre Festival has been working its way through the entire cannon of extant Greek plays, performing at a number of venues throughout the Salt Lake City area and on tour to colleges throughout the Western states. For their thirtieth anniversary production, they returned to Euripides' Ion, in a new adaptation by David Lan. This production, directed by David Dynak, was a self-consciously postmodern at…
Free u and the politics of knowledge
From Somerset to Samaná
This article aims to contribute new data on periphrastic did by systematically examining its behavior in two varieties of English: Somerset English (SMT), a variety spoken in Southwest England, and Samaná English (SAM), a variety spoken in the Samaná peninsula of the Dominican Republic. We hope to contribute a broader historical and cross-dialectal perspective for understanding the origin and function of periphrastic did in nonstandard varieties …
Thoroughly Modern Millie (review)
Cars, capital and disorder in Ivan Vladislavic'sThe Exploded ViewandPortrait with Keys
There is a substantial corpus of criticism on the epistemology of walking in recent writing by Ivan Vladislavic. This article expands upon the literature through a focus on the ways in which The Exploded View and Portrait with Keys engage with and pressurise the socio-spatial dominance of car driving in Johannesburg. It maintains that while car-use radically organises space and place in the city, this hegemony is tested by alternate forms of mobi…
Urbanism and Black Mobility in Peter Abrahams'sMine Boy
This article reads representations of street movement in Peter Abrahams's novel Mine Boy (1946) in order to think through the novel's ideological tensions and their relation to urban space in pre-apartheid Johannesburg. I argue that modalities of movement in the fiction – walking, running, dancing – disclose the organisation of urban life by racist capitalism. Simultaneously, movement enables a shared humanity that transcends rigid categories of …
Conspicuous Destruction, Aspiration and Motion in the South African Township
The paper limns modes of consumption and wastefulness in recent South African fiction about the township. It draws upon moves of aspiration and carelessness articulated in the youth practice I’khothane to think through the ways in which conspicuous destruction around car-use maps onto township socialities. Accordingly, it compares Sifiso Mzobe’s Young Blood and David Dinwoodie-Irving’s African Cookboy as texts utilizing scenes of consumption and …
Haunting the social
The article discusses the recently published memoir of South African radio celebrity Redi Tlhabi, Endings and Beginnings (2012 Tlhabi, Redi. 2012. Endings and Beginnings: A Story of Healing. Johannesburg: Jacana Press. [Google Scholar]), which is a bestseller in South Africa and recipient of the prestigious Alan Paton non-fiction award for 2013. Following Tlhabi's haunting by the ghosts of her murdered father and her unlikely childhood friend, th…
Fracture and Selfhood in Jacob Dlamini'sNative Nostalgia
The article attempts to interrogate formations of the self in post-apartheid black writing. Drawing on Jacob Dlamini's Native Nostalgia, it traces mutable formations of the black subject across temporalities and spatialities. Following Theodor Adorno's dialectics of non-identity (1972 Adorno, T. 1972. Negative Dialectics. London: Continuum. [Google Scholar]), I argue that emphasis on the historical and locational particularities of township life …
Making sense of significance in environmental impact assessment
Impact significance determination lies at the heart of environmental impact assessment (EIA) but conflict and misunderstanding around the concept is common.This paper attempts to make sense of impact significance in EIA based on four essential components of significance synthesised from the literature to ensure that: (1) a clear operational framework for significance determination applies throughout EIA, (2) attention focuses only on significant …
The train as motif in Soweto poetry
This article considers protest poetry written between 1961 and 1976. I argue that the Soweto poetry of the 1970s enabled activism that would change Johannesburg’s landscape, facilitating the racial mixing of inner city areas and eroding the segregationist policies that had defined the city from its beginnings. Concomitantly, the paper focuses on representations of the train as a site through which black localities were produced as resistance. Via…
Understanding the long-term influence of EIA on organisational learning and transformation
Junk Aesthetics from South Africa, Brazil and India
My article draws on cultural production from South Africa, Brazil and India to test theorisations that read subjects and objects as ontologically comparable. Using the oceanic circulation of human waste products to link the above locales, I show how the use of junk by the urban poor shows evidence of a relationship with discarded objects that contests their national and transnational marginalisation. Concomitantly, I explore the ways in which aes…
Evaluation of the Computer-Based Intervention Program Stayingfit Brazil to Promote Healthy Eating Habits
Interventions via the Internet are promising regarding the promotion of healthy habits among youth. The objective of this study was to evaluate the effect of an adapted version of StayingFit to promote healthy eating habits and the measurement adequacy of anthropometric markers among adolescents. A web school-based 12-month cluster-randomized controlled trial examining 7th to 9th grade students was conducted in twelve schools in Salvador, Bahia, …
As You Like It by William Shakespeare, and
Establishing international best practice principles for impact assessment teaching and training
Best Practice Principles for Impact Assessment (IA) Teaching and Training were developed for the International Association for Impact Assessment (IAIA). Research conducted throughout 2018 and 2019 encompassed seven iterative steps: an initial practitioners workshop; comprehensive review of 40 years of literature on teaching IA; initial survey of teachers and trainers; follow-up interviews; development of draft set of principles; final survey of t…
Gearing up impact assessment as a vehicle for achieving the UN sustainable development goals
This article reflects on the potential for impact assessment (IA) to be a major vehicle for implementing the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). While it is acknowledged that the SDGs are intended to deliver broader outcomes than IA currently does, we nevertheless argue there is significant convergence between IA and the SDGs, which we explore utilising the key dimensions of sustainability assessment: comprehensiveness, strategicness and int…
Embracing evolutionary change to advance impact assessment (IA)
Impact assessment (IA) originated as, and continues to be, an instrument that contributes towards sustainable development. In response to the considerable sustainability challenges facing our planet this article argues for the acceleration of IA’s evolutionary approach through focusing on effective practice
Preventing Female Genital Mutilation in the United States
Reading the rubbish dump as a heterotopia in Neill Blomkamp's district 9
I read the rubbish dumps of Neill Blomkamp’s 2009 film District 9 in order to think about how peripheral places and communities can reframe the South African city. In the film, dumps are sites of abandonment and transformation. This doubleness exemplifies Michel Foucault’s privileged site, the heterotopia. I focus on two scenes that take up little of the film’s running time but speak to the possibilities of the dump as more than simply a space of…
Mormon Performance/Performing Mormonism
The Nauvoo Dramatic Association was founded in 1844 to respond to a growing demand for culture and entertainment in the booming young Illinois city. Organized by Joseph Smith, the company was directed by Thomas A. Lyne, a recent convert and professional actor from Philadelphia. The first offering of the society was advertised for performance in the newly dedicated Masonic Hall on April 24, 1844. All were invited to attend Pizarro, or The Death of…
Effects of Formative Assessment Strategies on the Fractions Computation Skills of Students With Disabilities
Learning to compute with fractions is a major challenge for many students and especially for students with disabilities (SWD). Phase 1 of this study employed a randomized pretest–posttest comparison design to test the effects of two versions of formative assessment combined with an instructional program called Fractions at Work. In one condition, teachers used technology-assisted prompts to assess student performance and remediate errors. In the …
The Cambridge Companion to the City in World Literature
This book forges new ground in the relationship between cities and World Literature. Through a series of essays spanning a variety of metropolises, it shows how cities have given rise to key aesthetic dispositions, acts of linguistic and cultural translation, topographic conceptualizations, global imaginaries, and narratives of self-fashioning that are central to understanding World Literature and its debates. Alongside an introduction and three …
Political science (14 works) · Sociology (13 works) · Art (12 works) · History (11 works) · History (9 works) · Law (9 works) · Aesthetics (7 works) · Computer Science (7 works) · Literature (7 works) · South African History and Culture (7 works)