Department of Sociology and Social Anthropology: Recent submissions
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We need to talk about Ballen: towards a working protocol for representing people with intellectual disabilities and the photographic practice
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2021-12)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: Representations of people with intellectual and developmental disabilities (PWIDD) in the media are rare, and when they do exist, portrayals tend to reflect and perpetuate their marginalization by ... -
Performing the self in new media: A qualitative study on the experiences of South African Muslim women influencers on Instagram
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2021-12)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: This paper examines how South African Muslim women influencers negotiate the self on Instagram. Drawing from interviews with South African influencers, this research argues that Muslim women influencers ... -
Karoo research update : progress, gaps and threats
(ASSAf, 2021-01-29)It has been more than three decades since the conclusion of the Karoo Biome Project (KBP).1 At its height in the late 1980s, the KBP coordinated the efforts of nearly 100 research projects across a range of mainly ... -
Transitioning between childhood and adulthood: how learners negotiate childhood and adulthood with adult caregivers at school and at home
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2021-12)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: My aim in this study is to understand the processes of transitioning from childhood to adulthood from the point of view of Grade 10-11 learners (aged 16 and 17) attending a private school in the Western ... -
In a surveillance and regulation of protest movements in a democratic liberal society: exploring the lives of Fees Must Fall activists at Stellenbosch University.
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2021-12)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: The year 2015 marked the beginning of the Fees Must Fall movements in South Africa, this thesis explores the lives of student activists at Stellenbosch University, through the lens of surveillance and ... -
A study of youth education, skills and talents: Diazville, Saldanha Bay
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2021-03)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: Youth unemployment rates have been on the rise globally. The International Labour Organisation (ILO) has identified 64 million unemployed youth worldwide and many more who are living in poverty. These ... -
Balancing acts: rationalisation and care in the management of mental health call centre counsellors in South Africa
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2021-03)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: Over the last 30 years, the international rise and proliferation of call centres have had an enormous impact on global work and labour relations. In the literature on the call centre industry, scholars have ... -
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. ... -
The art of making young genders and sexualities in South Africa
(2021-03)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: This thesis is a visual arts-based exploration of young genders and sexualities in South Africa. The data presented here was generated by a uniquely designed participatory online visual arts course ... -
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 ... -
Building resilience: the gendered effect of climate change on food security and sovereignty in Kakamega Kenya
(MDPI, 2021)Climate change is a global threat, affecting the food security and food sovereignty of many depending on agriculture for their livelihoods. This is even more pronounced in Kenya, given their over-reliance on rain-fed ... -
The boomerang : how eugenics and racial science in the German colonies rebounded on Europe and the rest of the world
(African Sun Media, 2020)In 1936, the British-trained professor of zoology Harold Benjamin Fantham published an article titled “Some Race Problems in South Africa” in The Scientific Monthly.1 The opening section of the article provided detailed ... -
The persisting conditions of ‘Day Zero’: How chronic crisis challenges media narratives about the Cape Town water crisis
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2021-03)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: The Cape Town water crisis of 2017 to 2019 became national and international news due to the risk of a major metropole running out of water. What this portrayal neglects to include is the fact that for a ... -
Pumping iron at Frankie’s
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2021-03)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: The events and analysis prompting this study play out in a weight training gym in the Rusthof neighbourhood in Strand, Western Cape. Itis called Frankie’s Gym and originated to help deal with social issues ... -
Warrior Girls: violence against women and gender-based activism in a Pentecostal-Charismatic church in Stellenbosch
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2021-03)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: Levels of gender-based violence (GBV) in South Africa are unacceptably high, and manifest in a social context marked by patriarchal forms of power, authority, family organisation, and religion (Centre for ... -
Contested Land: A case study of land reform on the municipal commonage in Loeriesfontein, Northern Cape Province
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2021-03)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: This thesis focuses on the competing claims to and interests in the municipal commonages of a small town called Loeriesfontein in the semi-arid Karoo region of the Northern Cape Province. The primary aim ... -
Liquid violence : the politics of water responsibilisation and dispossession in South Africa
(Water Alternatives Network, 2019)This article introduces the notion of liquid violence to explain structural and racialised water inequality in contemporary South Africa. Investigating the Waterberg region in Limpopo Province from a water perspective ... -
Examining experiences of Zimbabwean migrant entrepreneurs on state repression in the inner-city of Johannesburg, South Africa
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2020-12)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: Focusing on Zimbabwean documented and undocumented migrant entrepreneurs in Johannesburg, the study engages the ways in which the State responds and represses Zimbabweans and their enterprises in the ... -
The efficiency and accuracy of a rapid qualitative tool to ascribe socio-economic status in communities in South Africa – a cross-sectional study.
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2020-12)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: Socio-economic status (SES) is a well-established construct. Lower SES is consistently associated with increased health challenges. SES is important to social policy and health interventions and, therefore, ... -
The social life of a small ethnology museum in Limpopo, South Africa
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2020-12)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: This mini-ethnography is concerned with a small-town ethnology museum, the Aranya Museum, and the various actors that entered and engaged with the museum and its artefacts during a period of transition, ...
