Doctoral Degrees (Sociology and Social Anthropology)
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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 ... -
"What's mine?" : rural women's experiences around property rights in the context of dissolved marriages in matrilineal societies : a case study of Muluwila Village in Kuntunmanje area, Zomba District, malawi.
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2015-12)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: Granting women access to and rights in property (including housing and land) is widely regarded in the literature on gender and development as contributing significantly both towards women’s empowerment ... -
The economic and social effects of mobile phone usage: the case of women traders in Accra
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2015-12)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: Research on the impact of mobile phones – and associated information and communication technologies (ICTs) – on micro and small enterprises (MSEs) is on the ascendancy in the contemporary “ICT for ... -
Identity in organisations : a methodological study
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2015-04)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: This study examined organisational identity from a substantive and methodological point of view. With the burgeoning interest in the organisational identity construct, there have been a multitude ... -
Public understanding of global climate change in Malawi : an investigation of factors influencing perceptions, attitudes and beliefs about global climate change
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2015-04)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: This study is informed by both the deficit/positivist and contextual/critical models for doing public understanding of science (PUS) research and seeks to investigate factors that influence the perceptions, ... -
The physical and social benefits of urban agriculture projects run by non-governmental organisations in Cape Town
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2015-04)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: Urban agriculture (UA) has always been practised in African urban centres. Only since the turn of the twentieth century, however, have development researchers turned their attention to its potential as ... -
Public participation in hostel redevelopment programs in Nyanga and Langa
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2015-04)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: Literature on public participation generally assumes the existence of a causal relationship between community participation in urban development programs and the satisfaction of beneficiaries of such ... -
Playing gender in childhood : how boys and girls construct and experience schooling and play in a township primary school near Durban
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2015-04)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: Research on how children learn to behave in gendered ways has focused on a „top-down‟ process of socialisation which positions children as passive recipients of gender norms of the societies they inhabit. ... -
Xenophobic exclusion and masculinities among Zimbabwean male migrants : the case of Cape Town and Stellenbosch
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2015-03)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: The anthropological investigation of masculinities remains an understudied dimension of transnational migration and xenophobia studies in post-apartheid South Africa. This thesis sets out to examine the ... -
Land transactions and rural development policy in the Domboshava peri-urban communal area, Zimbabwe
(Stellenbosch -- Stellenbosch University, 2014-12)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: Urbanization in Sub-Saharan Africa has led to the proliferation of peri-urban settlements close to cities. Development policy in these areas is multi-pronged. Residents with local tribal, as well as migrant ... -
University politics under the impact of societal transformation and global processes : South Africa and the case of Stellenbosch University, 1990-2010
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2014-12)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: Worldwide, national higher education systems and universities are repeatedly confronted with global higher education trends and the challenge to handle them in specific national and institutional contexts. ... -
The role of African Christian churches in dealing with sexual violence against women : the case of the Democratic Republic of Congo, Rwanda and Liberia
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2014-12)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: Sexual violence against women (SVAW) has always been part of armed conflict. However, only recently has international law deemed it a crime against humanity and a genocidal crime, thus finally recognising ... -
Theory-based evaluation, logic modelling and the experience of SA non-governmental organisations
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2014-04)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: This study examined the origins and development of theory-based evaluation (TBE) and the logic models associated with this approach. This was done in order to better understand the roots and evolution of ...
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