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Transforming transformation in research and teaching at South African universities
(AFRICAN SUN MeDIA, 2018)What is transformation in contemporary South African higher education? How can it be facilitated through research and pedagogic practices? These questions are addressed in this edited collection by established academics ... -
Households, fluidity, and HIV service delivery in Zambia and South Africa – an exploratory analysis of longitudinal qualitative data from the HPTN 071 (PopART) trial
(Wiley Open Access, 2018)Introduction: Population distributions, family and household compositions, and people’s sense of belonging and social stability in southern Africa have been shaped by tumultuous, continuing large-scale historical disruptions. ... -
Healing, referring, supporting but not interfering : traditional healers experiences of HIV management in five South African communities taking part in the HPTN 071 (PopART) trial
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2020-03)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: No abstract -
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 ... -
Queering gender : the life histories of gender counter-normative students at Stellenbosch University
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2020-03)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: In March 2016, members of The trans* Collective student activist group at the University of Cape Town brought to light the erasure of gender counter-normative students’ contributions to the success of ... -
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 ... -
Political fashioning : aesthetics, art and activism in South Africa 2013-2018
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2020-03)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: The thesis offers a reading of four contemporary South African artists as forms of intervention in society. I consider aesthetic practices that include the mediums of sculpture, film and performance art ... -
How social media democratized beauty : South African influencers experiences of the transformation of cosmetics and work in the beauty industry
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2020-03)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: Over the last decade the beauty industry has undergone a ‘digital makeover’. Not only have companies selling beauty products adopted a digital language, but the way in which beauty products are being ... -
Its not a womans job : an exploration of the gendered nature of employment in the South African private security industry
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2020-03)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: Private security provision is a career which has traditionally been associated with men and regarded as a masculine occupation. Since the adoption of the UN resolution 1325 there has been an effort to ... -
Troubling the line : exploring the discursive construction of trans masculinity
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2020-03)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: This thesis is an exploratory study that looks into the discursive construction of trans masculinity. The data for this study emanates from semi-structured in-depth interviews conducted with seven ... -
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 ... -
An ethnographic study on OutRight Namibia and their work on advancing gender and sexuality diversity in Namibia
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2020-03)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: This ethnographic study is based on a LGBT NGO, OutRight Namibia (ORN), in Windhoek, Namibia. This study draws on a Queer theory framework and follows a qualitative approach informed by an ethnography ... -
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 ... -
Re-negotiating space and place : intersections between migration and schooling in Kayamandi (Stellenbosch, Western Cape)
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2020-03)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: This qualitative study sought to explore the schooling and migratory experiences of African and South African migrant youth in a selected high school in the township of Kayamandi. The isiXhosa origins of ... -
Social capital for whom? a case study of the implementation and practices of community-led enumerations in Stellenbosch Municipality 2011-2013
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2019-12)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: the 2010 Human Sciences Research Council Review, Robert Mongwe had a two-page entry on Race, Class and Housing in post-apartheid Cape Town (Mongwe 2010: 18-19). Mongwe explores the question of whether ... -
New Jerusalem is my home: Christian restoration and the discipleship programme
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2019-12)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: I describe the structure of an addiction treatment programme called the discipleship programme and the logic of Christian restoration which informed the programme. The Ark: City of refuge is a homeless ... -
Tracking the many meanings of activisms and occupations: an ethnographic study of ‘Reclaim the City’, in Woodstock and Green Point, Cape Town
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2019-12)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: In the tumultuous post-apartheid period in South Africa, housing has been a topic of continuous contention by both politicians and community-based organisations (CBOs). While apartheid-era policies like ... -
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 ...
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