Sustainability in the Global South Challenges, Failures, and Innovative Solutions

1. Introduction: Sustainability and the Concerns of a Global Order

Jörn Ahrens, Ghita Rezzouk, and Sarita Monjane Henriksen

Part I. Claims for Sustainability

2. Socioeconomic Factors Influencing HIV Prevalence Rates among Women in Southern Africa

Karabo Mhele and Stephina Mbele

3. Disrupting Inequalities in the Global South through the Means of Language: Sustainability and the Use of Community Languages

Sarita Monjane Henriksen

4. Sustainability and Tackling Vulnerabilities in Ethiopia: Can NGOs’ Short-term Projects Lead to Durable Solutions?

Melisew Dejene and Fikru Tarekegn

Part II. Sustainability and Land

5. Unmarried Women’s Access to Land in South Africa: A Review of Factors, Structures, and Strategies in Communal Areas

Agreement Sibiya

6. Climate Risks and Cattle Farming in Southern Mozambique: Seeking the Impetus of the SDGs in Minimizing the Impacts

Maela Mapoíssa and Malaquias Zildo Tsambe

7. Understanding Land Degradation in Boteti: A Desertification Hotspot in Botswana

Kutlwano Mulale and Pelane-Modutlwe Gaositwe Lillian

Part III. Sustainability Governance

8. Vegetable Import Restrictions in Botswana: Social, Economic, and Environmental Sustainability Implications

Boineelo Pearl Lefadola, Enoch Kwame Tham-Agyekum, and Gabriel Faimau

9. Beyond Environmentality: Climate Change Impact in a Botswana Village and the Case of Civil Society

Jörn Ahrens

10. The Challenges of Climate Change Literacy in Africa: A Conceptual Understanding and Reimagining

Ikechukwu Umejesi

Part IV. Sustainability Education and Knowledge

11. Climate Change, Economic Vulnerability, and Higher Education in Botswana

Esther Nkhukhu-Orlando and Israel R. Blackie

12. Land Administration and Sustainable Development Education: Insights from Namibia University of Science and Technology

Jennilee Kohima, Aune Shikongo, and Uchendu Eugene Chigbu

Biography

Ghita Rezzouk is a researcher at the Graduate Center for the Study of Culture, Justus Liebig University Giessen, Germany, and a project coordinator for the Planetary Utilization of Sustainability Strategies (PLUS) project. Her research interests include gender and society, cultural identity, religion, and resilience and she has published several articles on these topics.

Sarita Monjane Henriksen is a visiting professor at Justus Liebig University Giessen, Germany and a Fulbright Scholar-in-Residence at Rutgers University, Newark, New Jersey, USA. She has been guest professor at various higher education institutions in Europe and Brazil. She has a PhD in Human Rights, from the University of Salamanca, Spain and a PhD in Language Policy and Education Planning from Roskilde University, Denmark She is an associate professor and the Director of Cooperation at UP-Maputo, Mozambique. Her main research interests are language and globalization, migration, mobility, language education policies etc. and has published two books recently. 

Jörn Ahrens is a professor of Cultural Sociology at Justus Liebig University Giessen, Germany, and Extraordinary Professor of Social Anthropology at North-West University, South Africa. He received his PhD in sociology in 1999 from Free University Berlin and his Habilitation in 2006 at Humboldt University Berlin. His main research interests are climate change and society; Southern African societies; violence; popular culture; and theories of modernity. He has published extensively on climate change epistemologies, popular media, and social theory.