Masters Degrees (Sociology and Social Anthropology)
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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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
New student activism after Apartheid: the case of Open Stellenbosch
(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 ... -
Social researchers’ perceptions of ethics review: the role of scientific domain, methodology and ethical position
(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 ... -
Motherhood constructed online : an exploratory study of South African mommy bloggers
(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
(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 ... -
The changing role of political risk analyses in foreign investment decision-making: A case study of South Africa
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2018-03)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: Political risk has historically been identified as a significant determinant of foreign direct investment (FDI). Numerous studies confirm that investors sometimes eliminate whole geographical regions for ... -
Decelerating factors that impact on the career progression of women academics at Stellenbosch University
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2017-03-15)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: In 2014, Stellenbosch University’s (SU’s) Transformation office released an infographic displaying the percentage of women and men at the various academic ranks throughout the university. This display ... -
Improving shacks, upgrading settlements: An ethnography of solar power infrastructure in the informal settlement of Enkanini, Stellenbosch
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2017-03)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: This thesis ethnographically explores an in-situ upgrading experiment known as the iShack Project. Through the use of ethnography as method the research elaborates on the intricacies and tensions inherent ...
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