Institute for Social and Health Sciences (ISHS)https://hdl.handle.net/10500/85492024-03-28T05:37:47Z2024-03-28T05:37:47ZChildren’s rights: The need for care, safety and protectionOmarjee, NadiraTaliep, NaiemaMorkel, JadeJames, SenecaHenning , Tiffany https://hdl.handle.net/10500/308822024-02-23T14:42:42Z2023-01-01T00:00:00ZChildren’s rights: The need for care, safety and protection
Omarjee, Nadira; Taliep, Naiema; Morkel, Jade; James, Seneca; Henning , Tiffany
This paper aims to highlight the push factors leading to children’s vulnerabilities especially in historically
impoverished communities in post-apartheid South Africa (SA). These push factors are hangovers that Black1
children continue to experience in their daily lives because of the ongoing impact of poverty and family
behavioural patterns. Furthermore, the paper highlights how socially constructed violence is perpetuated in the
form of gangsterism when factors such as unemployment, mental health issues and lack of services contribute
to a lack of care, safety and protection of children, alluding to the State’s failure to provide basic services in
impoverished communities. The lack of access to services coupled with the need to protect the rights of children
promulgated in the UN Declaration of the Rights of the Child highlight how the State is directly implicated in the
neglect of SA children’s wellbeing. Data collection included focus group discussions and semi-structured
interviews with adult community members from two South African communities, exploring perceptions and
experiences of everyday violence. Collaborative thematic analyses was used for analyses. Core themes that
emerged centre on perceptions on the various dynamics within the family system that ruptures the family
system and the various pull factors that attracts children to other replacement family systems. These factors
are discussed under sub-themes.
2023-01-01T00:00:00ZToward a decolonial Africa-centering ecological and social psychologySuffla, ShahnaazRatele, KopanoAdams, GlennReddy, GeethaMalherbe, Nickhttps://hdl.handle.net/10500/307502024-01-23T14:12:01Z2023-01-01T00:00:00ZToward a decolonial Africa-centering ecological and social psychology
Suffla, Shahnaaz; Ratele, Kopano; Adams, Glenn; Reddy, Geetha; Malherbe, Nick
As collaborators on projects with epistemic foundations in the diverse everyday realities of different African settings, we respect and endorse the goal of the special issue (SI) to expand “psychological science to include the Middle East and Africa.” In this Short Communications article, we draw on a central insight of Africa-centering perspectives—namely, a healthy vigilance about the coloniality of knowledge in hegemonic whitestream science—to engage the goal of the SI via a critical reading of its call for papers around a contrast between imperialist and decolonial forms of inclusion. Although inclusion of research in African settings addresses issues of epistemic exclusion, imperialist forms of inclusion that assimilate African cases to whitestream science can reproduce forms of epistemic extractivism, epistemic imposition, and epistemological violence. In contrast, decolonial forms of inclusion draw on African epistemic resources to denaturalize accounts of the modern present that researchers represent, typically without reference to the coloniality that constitutes modernity, as something akin to natural facts. Rather than assimilate African cases to whitestream science, the goal of decolonial inclusion is an ecological and social psychology that takes African experience—and especially unflinching awareness of the coloniality of modernity—as an epistemic foundation for a global science
2023-01-01T00:00:00ZMapping the perception of urban safety,space and livelihood of girl street children in Yogyakarta, IndonesiaDiponegoro, AhmedHayati, Elli NurPranungsari, DessyIsmail, GhouwaTaliep, NaiemaDiponegorohttps://hdl.handle.net/10500/307492024-01-23T14:06:01Z2023-01-01T00:00:00ZMapping the perception of urban safety,space and livelihood of girl street children in Yogyakarta, Indonesia
Diponegoro, Ahmed; Hayati, Elli Nur; Pranungsari, Dessy; Ismail, Ghouwa; Taliep, Naiema; Diponegoro
Street children remain a social phenomenon in many low- and middle-income countries in which they experience alienation, discrimination, and social and spatial exclusion. The aim of this study was to identify and understand how girl street children perceive safety, space, and their livelihood on the urban streets of Yogyakarta, Indonesia, and to identify the multilevel components and processes that can contribute to improving the effectiveness of interventions for this group. A mixed-methods design was applied using a critical community-based participatory research and asset-mapping approach. Both quantitative descriptive statistics and qualitative thematic content analysis were used. The results highlight that the girl street children are subjected to various forms of hegemony linked to power, space and place, gender, and socio-economic marginalisation. Factors that contribute to their safety and survival include a sense of place, belonging and connectedness, and access to various tangible and intangible assets in their created spaces. We recommend further exploration of the mobilisation of assets to transform the quality of life and livelihood and to enhance the safety of the girl street children
2023-01-01T00:00:00ZChild pedestrian crossing behaviour and associated risk factors in school zones: a video-based observational study in Kampala, UgandaNankabirwa, VictoriaOsuret, JimmyVan Niekerk, AshleyKobusingye, OliveAtuyambe, LynnNankabirwa, Victoriahttps://hdl.handle.net/10500/307132023-12-12T10:11:57Z2023-01-01T00:00:00ZChild pedestrian crossing behaviour and associated risk factors in school zones: a video-based observational study in Kampala, Uganda
Nankabirwa, Victoria; Osuret, Jimmy; Van Niekerk, Ashley; Kobusingye, Olive; Atuyambe, Lynn; Nankabirwa, Victoria
Background Pedestrian crashes, often occurring while road crossing and associated with crossing behaviour, make up 34.8% of road casualties in Uganda. This study determined crossing behaviour and associated factors among child pedestrians around primary schools in Kampala, Uganda.
Methods We conducted a cross-sectional study in 2022 among 2100 primary school children. Data on their crossing behaviour were collected using video recordings from cameras staged at the crossing points of 21 schools. We estimated prevalence ratios (PR) with their corresponding 95% CIs using a modified Poisson regression model for the association between unsafe behaviour and the predictors.
Results The prevalence for each of 5 unsafe child pedestrian behaviour was 206 (25.8%) for crossing outside the crosswalk, 415 (19.8%) for failing to wait at the kerb, 238 (11.3%) for failing to look for vehicles, 361 (17.2%) for running and 235 (13%) for crossing between vehicles. There was a higher likelihood of crossing outside the crosswalk when an obstacle was present (adjusted PR (aPR) 1.8; 95% CI 1.40 to 2.27) and when children crossed alone (aPR 1.5; 95% CI 1.13 to 2.06). Children who crossed without a traffic warden (aPR 2; 95% CI 1.40 to 2.37) had a significantly higher prevalence of failing to wait at a kerb.
Conclusion These findings reveal the interaction between child pedestrians, vehicles and the environment at crossings. Some factors associated with unsafe child pedestrian behaviour were the presence of an obstacle, crossing alone and the absence of a traffic warden. These findings can help researchers and practitioners understand child pedestrian crossing behaviour, highlighting the need to prioritise targeted safety measures.
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