Department of Sociology and Social Anthropology

Military trade unions : a threat to national security …. Really?

Heinecken, Lindy (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

Raad, Rene (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?

Musa, Sallek Yaks (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

Harmse, Kristen (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

Francis, Dennis A.; Reygan, Finn (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

Robins, Steven Lance; Fleisch, Brahm (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.

Mwiine, Amon Ashaba (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 ...

Reading Zimbabwe's structural and political violence through the trope of the unnameable and unnamed in Brian Chikwava’s Harare North

Siziba, Gugulethu (AOSIS Publishing, 2017-02-24)

This article reads Zimbabwe’s structural and physical violence which extends to the country’s diaspora through Brian Chikwava’s novel Harare North (2009). The central argument the article makes is that the unnamed narrator ...

Rethinking protected area co-management in the Makuleke Region, South Africa (SA)

Maluleke, Gezani (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, ...

New student activism after Apartheid: the case of Open Stellenbosch

Mpatlanyane, Vanessa Lebohang (Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2018-03)

ENGLISH ABSTRACT: This thesis considers recent student activism in post-apartheid South Africa by paying attention to Open Stellenbosch, a black-led student movement at Stellenbosch University. By using data collected from ...

Tracing objects of measurement: Locating intersections of race, science and politics at Stellenbosch University

Walters, Handri (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), ...

Social researchers’ perceptions of ethics review: the role of scientific domain, methodology and ethical position

Hendricks, Anri Jo (Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2018-03)

ENGLISH ABSTRACT: Over the last few decades, increased focus has been placed on the importance of research ethics review at higher education institutions. Although this has been welcomed by many academics, various authors ...

Internal migration in post-apartheid South Africa: The cases of the Western and Northern Cape

Eigelaar-Meets, Ilse (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 ...

Motherhood constructed online : an exploratory study of South African mommy bloggers

Toi, Cassey Alexandre (2018-03)

ENGLISH ABSTRACT: When blogging first entered the collective mainstream as part of social media, it was thought there was a clear distinction between online and offline life, that communities needed to have physical form, ...

Knowledge relativity: Carnarvon residents’ and SKA personnel’s conceptions of the SKA’s scientific and development endeavours

Butler, Suné Sonia (Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2018-03)

ENGLISH ABSTRACT: Carnarvon, a small and isolated town in the Northern Cape, is the South African host-town of an international radio astronomy project, the Square Kilometre Array (SKA). The notion of pushing the boundaries ...