Doctoral Degrees (Sociology and Social Anthropology)
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Seeing and living like a cross-border pastoralist : local struggles over state resources and services on the Uganda-DRC border
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2020-03)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: The questions of access to state resources by cross-border people including mobile pastoralists remain difficult, especially when it comes to public goods and services like water, land, routes used for ... -
The influence of climate change on the livelihoods of women involved in rural agriculture in Kakamega county, Kenya
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2020-03)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: Climate change is a global challenge that negatively affects natural, physical, human, financial and social capital and the livelihoods of people. In Sub Saharan Africa and Kenya, the influence of climate ... -
Cleaning up : a sociological investigation into the use of outsourced housecleaning services
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2020-03)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: The nature of paid domestic work is changing. Where the shift from full-time, live-in and live-out, to part-time and temporary domestic work has been well documented in the literature, a new trend of ... -
Ongediertes : a critical qualitative study of farmer–black-backed jackal conflict and its management around the Square Kilometre Array core site in the Northern Cape, South Africa
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2020-03)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: This dissertation explores farmer–jackal conflict and the most effective way to manage this relationship in the context of the Square Kilometre Array (SKA) radio telescope in the Karoo and the human–human ... -
A comparative study of Afrikaner Economic Empowerment and Black Economic Empowerment : a case study of a former South African parastatal in Vanderbijlpark
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2020-03)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: Since 1994, there have been many debates as to why Broad-Based Black Economic Empowerment (BBBEE) has been unable to deliver the same economic benefits post 1994, as the Afrikaner Economic Empowerment ... -
From livestock to game farming : farmers understandings of land use changes, sustainable agriculture and biodiversity conservation in the Ubuntu Municipality, South Africa
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2020-03)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: Through a case study of commercial game farming in the Ubuntu Local Municipality in the arid Nama Karoo Biome of the Northern Cape, this dissertation has three main aims: firstly, to understand the views ... -
Smallholder farmers' understandings of and responses to climate change in Malawi: a case study of Mphunga group village, Salima district
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2019-12)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: Climate change is one of the most pressing livelihood issues of our time, adversely affecting the natural environment and national and local economies. Addressing climate change is one of the 17 Sustainable ... -
Research uptake management: a strategic framework for institutionalising research uptake at the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, Kumasi
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2019-12)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: This study examined the issue of research uptake and research uptake management with particular reference to how these can be institutionalised within an organisation. The focus was to propose a strategic ... -
Naming the witch, housing the witch and living with witchcraft: an ethnography of ordinary lives in Northern Ghana's witch camps
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2019-12)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: In Dagbambaland, northern Ghana, people who were accused and proven to be witches and who risked being harmed were banished by village chiefs and local elders (or fled on their own) to special settlements ... -
Yaounde apres l'independence: les changements migratoires dans le processus d'urbanisation d'une ville-capitale 1960-2010
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2019-04)RESUME: La complexité du phénomène migratoire en Afrique tient généralement en échec la plupart des politiques publiques en matière de planification urbaine. Souvent à l’origine de la croissance démographique galopante ... -
Military internal security operations in Plateau State, North Central Nigeria : Ameliorating or exacerbating insecurity?
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2018-12)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: The primary responsibility of a state is the protection of its citizens against external aggression and internal violence and disturbances. Conventionally, the latter is normally the duty of the police. ... -
Promoters of gender equality? a study of the social construction of specific male parliamentarians as “male champions” in Uganda.
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2018-12)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: The study engages with the phenomenon of male politicians speaking to gender equity issues in parliament in Uganda. What is particularly interesting about this is that these politicians are selected by ... -
Rethinking protected area co-management in the Makuleke Region, South Africa (SA)
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2018-03)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: The conservation of biodiversity over past centuries been characterized by exclusion and to some degree the forced removal of people for the creation of the protected areas. In the post-apartheid period, ... -
Tracing objects of measurement : locating intersections of race, science and politics at Stellenbosch University
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2018-03)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: This study departs from a confrontation with a collection of ‘scientific’ objects employed at Stellenbosch University in various ways from 1925 to 1984. Eugen Fischer’s Haarfarbentafel (hair colour table), ... -
Internal migration in post-apartheid South Africa: The cases of the Western and Northern Cape
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2018-03)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: Internal migration in post-apartheid South Africa is the primary focus of this dissertation. The geographic focus is on two of the country’s current provinces. In both the Northern Cape and the Western ... -
Informality and governmentality: An ethnography of conversion entrepreneurship in Harare
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2018-03)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: From its empirical and theoretical genealogy, informality has been proximate to poverty and illegality, hence it is associated with descriptions such as lumpenproletariat, (Neuwirth, 2011) ‘survivalist’, ... -
Zimbabwean migrants and the dynamics of religion and informal support associations in mediating everyday life in Cape Town
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2017-12)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: This ethnographic study is about Pentecostal spirituality and everyday social life among migrant members of Forward in Faith in Cape Town, South Africa. My focus is on the capacity of the church to reach ... -
Young urban Shona women and men negotiating gender and sexuality and social identifications through “cultural practices” in contemporary Zimbabwe: the case of labia elongation.
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2017-03)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: Influenced by versions of feminist theory, post-colonial theory, and critical anthropology, this research seeks to contribute to a growing body of literature which explores processes of identity construction ... -
Masculinities and gender-based violence in South Africa: a study of a masculinities-focused intervention programme
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2017-03)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: South Africa as a country experiences extremely high rates of violence and gender-based violence (GBV). A wide range of interventions have been implemented as a means to respond to these, including ... -
Struggle for urban citizenship in South Africa: Agency and politics in the Enkanini upgrading project, Stellenbosch
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2016-12)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: As the world becomes increasingly urban and urban conditions carry promises of a better life, significant categories of urban residents inhabit urban centres in cumulative insurgent processes of gaining ...
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