Joni Seager

Sandra G. Harding, a global trailblazer in feminist and postcolonial philosophy, critical science, technology studies, social justice and activism, died March 5. She was 89. Harding was a professor at the University of Delaware from 1975 to 1996 and then at UCLA until 2014. Before her retirement, she was a distinguished professor of education and gender studies and then a distinguished research professor emerita. She served as director of the UCLA Center for the Study of Women from 1996-1999.

AMANDLA! Since our first issue in 1973, South Africa has never been far from the pages of this magazine. In our March 1995 edition, which had the same theme as this one, editor David Ransom used this very column to describe a chance encounter with a watch repairer in Johannesburg. Des 'reckoned it would be another 10 years, perhaps 20, before things started to improve'. He was 'prepared to wait, though he'd rather not - he and his family had already been waiting 15 years for a house'.

We urgently need to transition away from fossil fuels to prevent the worst harms of climate change, but the process is turning into a massive, and often damaging bonanza for companies looking to profit from a slice of the climate action. We examine the way transition is taking place across the Middle East and North Africa, including Israel's eco-normalization policies, and look at the mining and offshore wind energy required for a new green economy.