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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 ... -
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 ... -
Women and renewable energy in a South African community : exploring energy poverty and environmental racism
(Bridgewater State College, 2018)This paper argues that the rights of women to be included in decisions about energy use and their experiences with energy use are ignored. Using an eco-feminist perspective this article explores how the rhetoric of ‘renewable ... -
Power and politics in stakeholder engagement : farm dweller (in)visibility and conversions to game farming in South Africa
(Resilience Alliance, 2018)Here, we discuss tensions inherent in multistakeholder approaches addressing conflicts over natural resources as well as the involvement of stakeholders in research. Our discussion is built on knowledge generated by extensive ... -
From biopower to ontopower? violent responses to wildlife crime and the new geographies of conservation
(Medknow Publications, 2018)Intensifying global dynamics of wildlife crime are rapidly reshaping conservation politics, practices and geographies. Most pronounced are the manifold violent responses to wildlife crime, including direct lethal action ... -
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 trade unions : a threat to national security …. Really?
(Stellenbosch University, Faculty of Military Science (Military Academy), 2017)The opinion piece by Eric Z. Mnisi claiming that national security has been sacrificed at the altar of soldiers’ Constitutional rights to form and join trade unions is a claim often muted, not only in South Africa. In the ... -
Nursing the stigma : conflicting realities of abortion
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2018-11-27)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: In 1996, South African women gained the right to exercise “control over their bodies” through the Choice on Termination of Pregnancy Act (CTOPA). This was a crucial advance for women, as it represented ... -
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. ... -
Die Son Sien Alles : The Constitution of Community in a Post-Apartheid Tabloid
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2018-12)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: This study considers a Cape Town based tabloid, Die Son, and how it has become a platform on which a particular community negotiates its boundaries and constitutes itself as shared identity. By approaching ... -
'Let's see if it won't go away by itself'. LGBT microaggressions among teachers in South Africa
(University of South Africa Press, 2016)We explored types and qualities of microaggressions or subtle forms of discrimination towards lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) people among teachers in South Africa. For data collection, we used in-depth ... -
Working-class high school learners' challenge to change : insights from the equal education movement in South Africa
(University of South Africa Press, 2016)Hargreaves (2002) suggested that vigorous social movements have the potential to improve the quality of (and increase the equity in) public education. This paper explores the role of Equal Education, an education social ... -
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 ... -
Programme on Ecosystem Change and Society : knowledge for sustainable stewardship of social-ecological systems
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Key features for more successful place-based sustainability research on social-ecological systems : a Programme on Ecosystem Change and Society (PECS) perspective
(Resilience Alliance, 2017)The emerging discipline of sustainability science is focused explicitly on the dynamic interactions between nature and society and is committed to research that spans multiple scales and can support transitions toward ...
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