Browsing Research Publications (Centre for Humanities Research) by Subject "Politics"

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    • Apartheid and the unconscious: An introduction 

      Truscott, Ross; van Bever Donker, Maurits; Hook, Derek (Taylor and Francis Group, 2023)
      This special issue invited contributors to revisit J.M. Coetzee’s “The Mind of Apartheid,” first published in Social Dynamics in 1991. Here, Coetzee asks what it might mean to come to terms with apartheid:It is not ...

    • Crime, community and the governance of violence in post-apartheid South Africa 

      Pillay, Suren (Taylor and Francis Group, 2008)
      The South African government has embarked on a programme ofencouraging social cohesion in South Africa first to address concerns stemmingfrom high levels of violent crime which characterise the society, and second, ...

    • Government by grants: The post-pandemic politics of welfare 

      Dubbeld, Bernard; Pinto de Almeida, Fernanda (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2020)
      In April 2020, with South Africa in national lockdown, president Cyril Ramaphosa announced the Covid-19 relief program on a scale he called ‘historic’. He affirmed that the state would not only reestablish the economy but ...

    • A “poor man’s pleasure”: The cinema house and its publics in twentieth century South Africa 

      de Almeida, Fernanda Pinto (Taylor and Francis Group, 2023)
      What do cinema houses have to tell us about the experience ofcollective leisure in early twentieth-century South Africa? Thisarticle considers how the cinema house points to unprecedentedsocial conditions that allowed the ...

    • Religious leaders as agents of Lgbtiq inclusion in east Africa 

      Van Klinken, Adriaan; Bompani, Barbara; Parsitau, Damaris (Oxford University Press, 2023)
      When Ugandan parliamentarians passed a new Anti-Homosexuality Bill in March 2023, they reportedly did so under pressure from, and with the enthusiastic support of, religious leaders.1 In other African countries, too, recent ...