Doctoral Degrees (Sociology and Social Anthropology)
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Gender, sexuality and schooling: An ethnography of young people in a secondary school in Kaduna State, Nigeria
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2022-04)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: Studies in Nigeria have presented schools as complex spaces that provide little or no support for young people with regards to gender and sexuality. The view that young people are passive actors in ... -
Power struggles: An exploration of the contribution of renewable energy to sustainable development, decent work and the “just transition” through a case study of wind farm development outside Loeriesfontein, Northern Cape Province (2011-2020)
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2022-04)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: Through a case study of the development of two linked wind farms outside Loeriesfontein, a small town in the Northern Cape Karoo, this dissertation explores the contribution of renewable energy to ... -
South African men's engagement in a feminist ethic of care: an extended case study
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2022-04)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: Women in South Africa spend eight times more time on unpaid domestic and care work than men. Motivated by this unequal distribution of care, I aimed to investigate how men in South Africa participate in ... -
Reaching for partnership: An intersectional study of occupational closure among women attorneys in South Africa
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2021-12)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: This research contributes to an understanding of the ways in which women attorneys experience social closure in the South African legal profession. The relevance for further research and debate is ... -
L’influence de l’ethnicite sur le commerce frontalier: le cas de la ville de Kye-Ossi au Sud Cameroun
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2021-03)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: Since their accession to international sovereignty, many countries of sub-Saharan Africa, despite attempts to integrate around regional or sub-regional groupings, still remain mired in economic adversity. ... -
Legal truth and discourses of violence in Post-apartheid Commissions of Inquiry: The TRC and Marikana Commission
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2021-03)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: This thesis offers an analysis of the official discourse of two post-apartheid commissions of inquiry investigating state violence – the South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) and Marikana ... -
Brokering, mediating and translating rural development: land and agricultural reform in the southern Cape
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2020-12)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: The anthropology of development has begun to focus on the analytical concept of brokers as crucial actors, and to investigate their presence across the ‘development chain’. Development does not simply ... -
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, ...
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