Masters Degrees (Sociology and Social Anthropology)
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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 ... -
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, ... -
"Use Me!" Enterprise development, nature conservation and patronage in northern KwaZulu-Natal
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2020-12)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: Simangaliso Wetland Park (iWP) was South Africa’s first World Heritage Site and in 2019 it became South Africa’s second largest protected area.The Park consolidated 16 nature reserves that were created ... -
Cake and death: three death cafes in South Africa
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2020-12)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: This thesis is concerned with three Death Cafés (DC) in South Africa and the individuals that gave shape to and engaged with these DCs.The DC is an international movement and social franchise that ... -
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 -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
Language as an aspect of transformation at a Stellenbosch University Residence
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2019-12)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: After 2002, South African higher education institutions were compelled to establish new policies according to the Language Policy for Higher Education. In order to be inclusive of students and staff ... -
Strategic utterances: repertoires, perceptions and indexical speech patterns among coloured people in Paarl
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2019-12)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: This thesis looks at spoken Afrikaans among coloured people in Paarl by focussing on their context-based speech habits. They speak a heterogenous Afrikaans dialect called Kaaps Afrikaans, which often ...
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