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Communities in WIReDSpace
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- This community is for all faculties and schools' research outputs/journal articles by Wits academics and researchers.
- This community hosts traditional outputs such as published and unpublished research articles, conference papers, book chapters and other research outputs authored by Wits academics and researchers. Items in this collection are also mapped to relevant collections within the Faculties/Schools/Departments communities for more specific browsing and searching.
- This community is for all faculties and schools' electronic theses and dissertations (ETDs) by masters and doctoral students. NB: All electronic theses and dissertations to be edited and moved/uploaded here.
- This community for all Wits Inaugural lectures.
- This community is for all Wits Libraries staff presentations and publications.
Recent Submissions
Item type:Item, Exploring the Editor-Author Relationship in a Multi-Cultural Context: The Influence of Editorial Interventions and How the Author Experiences Them in the Process of Finalising and Producing the Published Book(University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, 2025-03) Mance, Megan Winifred; Cassells, Laetitia; Nyamapfene, LorraineThis research project investigates the editor-author relationship in a multi-cultural context, focusing on the influence of editorial interventions and how the author experiences them in the process of finalising and producing the published book. The central question in this study of the cultural dynamic of an older white editor and a young Black author is about the effect on the final work of the interactions between them. This study was informed by an interpretivist ontology and epistemology, and a qualitative methodology. The research design incorporated multiple interviews to determine the experiences and views of editors on the one hand and Likert scale statements to determine the experiences and views of authors on the other. The research on the editors is fully qualitative in that their views are analysed through one-on-one semi-structured interviews. The findings from this research illuminate the differences between editor and author opinions of the editing process. Publishers, it seems, need to have a more hands-on approach to editing so that the author feels supported and the editor feels validated. This research is but one example of the development required for editing to be a truly beneficial and respectful industry with clear goals and with the author’s best interests as the primary goal. The key finding from this research highlights the mutual respect and harmony experienced and proclaimed in interactions between white editors and Black authors in South Africa.Item type:Item, A critical review of Indigenous women’s knowledge systems related to gender-based violence in the Global South(University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, 2025-01-29) Manaka, Sharon; Kiguwa, PeaceThe study was a critical review of research focused on developing countries that was concerned with women’s indigenous knowledge resources and systems to understand and confront GBV, together with the importance and the role of community response to GBV, as documented in the literature. This was done by conducting a narrative and meta-analyses review of the literature focused on how communities respond to GBV, and how women use indigenous knowledges and practices to understand and deal with GBV. The study utilized indigenous knowledge systems approach to analyse the data. Owing to the nature of the phenomenon of interest, the study employed a qualitative research design. The gathered data was analysed using thematic analysis. The study found that Indigenous women are not helplessly going through GBV, they instead deploy various coping strategies as prescribe by their cultural beliefs. These coping strategies include involving family elders as mediators, finding comfort in prayer and God, finding solace in proverbs, and positive reframing of GBV experiences. As proactive as Indigenous women were found to be in dealing with their victimization, some of their strategies of dealing with GBV were found to be counterproductive. The study further found that the community’s role in the fight against GBV is a critical and an irreplaceable one, especially because inequitable gender norms and beliefs are established and upheld within and by the community, therefore, within and by the community is where their disintegration should begin. Considering indigenous women’s respect for culture, it is important that initiatives aimed at doing away with GBV are implemented in a manner that honours the cultural beliefs of those who are meant to be helped.Item type:Item, Acceptability of pulmonary rehabilitation in Malawi a qualitative studyF Bickton; T Mankhokwe; Beatrice Chavula; Emily Chitdze; E et al; Felix LimbaniItem type:Item, Pundits Are Saying This Is Antipoor Competing Framing Strategies for Child Road Safety Policy in the PhilippinesSarah N Champagne; Adam Koon; Allan Ulitin; Haidee A Valverde; Lamisa Ashraf; E et alItem type:Item, A Cavitied Cold Plate for Enhanced Thermal Uniformity and CoolingYanyan Liu; Sjouke Schekman; Yongpu Wang; Tian Jian Lu; Tong Kim