What we should have learnt from Mandela

Chasi, Colin

doi:10.1080/00020184.2017.1346347

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“…The presence of South Africa in the top active list of countries in human rights and health research could be attributed, in part, to the political and social movements that endorsed health rights among HIV people as a human right principle [ 43 – 53 ]. In South Africa, the political and economic reform made by late Nelson Mandela had a positive impact on research output in human rights in general and on HHR in particular [ 54 , 55 ].…”

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A bibliometric analysis of global research output on health and human rights (1900–2017)

Sweileh

2018

glob health res policy

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BackgroundBaseline data on global research activity on health and human rights (HHR) needs to be assessed and analyzed to identify research gaps and to prioritize funding and research agendas. Therefore, the aim of this study was to assess the growth of publications and research pattern on HHR.MethodsA bibliometric methodology was used. Literature on HHR was retrieved using SciVerse Scopus for the study period from 1900 to 2017. Nine different search scenarios with different keyword combinations were used to retrieve the required documents. All types of documents published in peer-reviewed journals, including editorials, were included. The search strategy was validated.ResultsIn total 6513 documents were retrieved with an h-index of 88 and an average of 9.8 citations per document. Publications on HHR field started as early as 1950 but showed a steep rise in the past two decades. Visualization of author keywords revealed that HIV/ AIDS, mental health, maternal and reproductive health, violence, ethics, torture, and refugees were most commonly encountered keywords. The journal “Health and Human Rights” was most active (n = 467; 7.2%) in this field. However, documents that appeared in The Lancet received the highest impact (29.5 citations per document). The United States of America produced the most in this field (n = 1817; 27.9%). Researchers in the region of Americas participated in approximately 45% of the retrieved documents while researchers in the Eastern Mediterranean region had the least contribution (2.5%). Researchers in high-income countries contributed to approximately 78% of the retrieved documents while researchers in low-income countries contributed to less than 5% of the retrieved documents. When data were standardized by population size, the research output from high-income countries was approximately four documents per one million inhabitants. For middle-income countries, the research output was 0.3 document per one million inhabitants. For low-income countries, the research output was 0.5 document per one million inhabitants.ConclusionsDifferential research productivity on HHR was seen among scholars in different world regions. World countries need to encourage and strengthen research on HHR in order to achieve the goals set in international agreements of human rights.Electronic supplementary materialThe online version of this article (10.1186/s41256-018-0085-8) contains supplementary material, which is available to authorized users.

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A bibliometric analysis of global research output on health and human rights (1900–2017)

Sweileh

2018

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“…Most of the articles that we included in the Environmental Resource Management group mainly concern issues related to natural resources and human–nature interaction, such as community wildlife management (Balint, 2007), natural resource conflicts (Bond, 2016), coral reef degradation (Bruggemann et al, 2012), views on environmental issues (Quigely et al, 2015), the captive lion industry (Williams & ‘t Sas-Rolfes, 2019), and invasive species (Woodford et al, 2016). The following group, Health and Healthcare , mostly consists of articles that view HIV/AIDS as a wicked problem from different perspectives or due to different reasons (Burman, 2018; Burman & Aphane, 2017; Burman et al, 2017; Chasi, 2017; Tsasis et al, 2015), although it also includes one article on health governance (Khoo, 2013). In turn, the Sustainability group (6/45) includes a variety of research papers focusing on sustainability or sustainable development and defining this as a wicked problem (Acey, 2016; Booker, 2014; Davison et al, 2016; McGibbon & Van Belle, 2015; Perry et al, 2018; van der Laan et al, 2017).…”

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“…In turn, Bennett et al (2017, p. 59) argue that “[s]ocio-economic inequalities such as poverty still remain a challenge in post-apartheid South Africa and continue to impact the country by contributing to the burden of disease and social health faced by the population,” with the poorest potentially being the worst affected. Furthermore, Chasi (2017, p. 497) discusses Nelson Mandela’s efforts to communicate the HIV/AIDS problem and claims that the president was forced to work in a post-apartheid situation where leadership was difficult and “in societal arrangements that quite intractably constrain what they [leaders] can do to secure a more just social order.” Other problems in this group include the long-term effects of colonial (and post-colonial) rule on indigenous peoples and ethnic groups (Home & Kabata, 2018), and more general social and ecological issues in South African post-apartheid society (Mertens, 2016).…”

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“…This approach allowed us to identify seven distinctive main wickedness themes in the reviewed literature, which are (Balint, 2007;Benjamin-Fink & Reilly, 2017;Bond, 2016;Bouma & McBratney, 2013;Bruggemann et al, 2012;FitzGibbon & Mensah, 2012;Quigely et al, 2015;Rendigs et al, 2015;Vogel et al, 2016;Williams & 't Sas-Rolfes, 2019;Woodford et al, 2016) 1 2 Health and Healthcare 8 (Burman, 2018(Burman, , 2019Burman et al, 2015Chasi, 2017;Khoo, 2013;Tsasis et al, 2015) 3 (Booker, 2014) was excluded from this phase, as no concrete issues could be found. While this categorization partially overlaps with the thematic list, it nevertheless provides a more detailed description of the issues scholars consider are linked to wicked problems in Africa.…”

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Wicked Problems in Africa: A Systematic Literature Review

2021

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The theory of wicked problems, originating from Western academic discussion, has evolved since the 2000s toward a universal diagnostic of societal challenges. In this article, we employ a systematic literature review to investigate the application of the concept of wicked problems in studies focusing on the African context. Our aim is to understand the additional value and limitations of using the concept in a non-Western frame of reference. We conclude that the concept remains underutilized in studies concentrating on Africa; moreover, when it is used, it is mainly by academics of Western or Anglophone origin. Overall, the concept of wicked problems is mainly applied descriptively rather than theoretically. Based on the analysis of the themes and issues characterized as wicked, we elaborate toward a typology that takes account of the concrete “manifestations” (e.g., health issues such as AIDS/HIV and its treatment history) and “mechanisms” (e.g., historical path dependency) that condition the presence of wicked problems in the African context. The article contributes to the theory of wicked problems by developing a typology that distinguishes between interlinked and contextual problems (often characterized through the concept of “dual wickedness”), and proposes that problems can become exacerbated when the two dimensions are simultaneously present.

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“…How do their insights into leadership within an African context intersect our Western leadership notions, which dominate the leadership paradigms we hold as central and (sometimes) inviolable (Elkington & Tuleja, 2017)? How might African leadership paradigms enrich the leadership discourse globally, and where might other indigenous perspectives from different countries and continents enrich the discourse on leadership (Chasi, 2017; Julien et al, 2010)?…”

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Introduction: Listening with African Leadership in the 21st Century—Paradigmatic Considerations for Liminal Contexts

Elkington¹

2022

J of Leadership Studies

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What we should have learnt from Mandela

Cited by 4 publications

References 26 publications

A bibliometric analysis of global research output on health and human rights (1900–2017)

A bibliometric analysis of global research output on health and human rights (1900–2017)

Wicked Problems in Africa: A Systematic Literature Review

Introduction: Listening with African Leadership in the 21st Century—Paradigmatic Considerations for Liminal Contexts

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