Browsing Research Publications (Anthropology and Sociology) by Title
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Un/making difference through performance and mediation in contemporary Africa
(Routledge, 2017)This special issue of the Journal of African Cultural Studies grew out of a panel we organized at the European Conference on African Studies in Lisbon in June 2013. Our starting point was the observation of a massive ... -
Un/making difference through performance and mediation in contemporary Africa
(Taylor & Francis, 2017)This special issue of the Journal of African Cultural Studies grew out of a panel we organized at the European Conference on African Studies in Lisbon in June 2013. Our starting point was the observation of a massive revival ... -
The use of heroism in the Zimbabwe African National Union-Patriotic Front (ZANU-PF) intra-party factional dynamics
(University of Pretoria, 2017)Much of what we know about Zimbabwe's liberation war heroes and heroines is associated with the Zimbabwe African Notional Union-Patriotic Front (ZANU-PF)'s recognition of individuals who defended its hold on power. However, ... -
'We can be united, but we are different': discourse of difference in postcolonial Namibia
(Forum Press, 2010)Social scientists who have written about the dynamics of festival rituals have analysed such practices variously as celebrations of commonality, as the enhancement of social cohesion, or as expressions of nostalgia. Festivals ... -
With shouts of Afrika!’: The 1952 textile strike at good hope textiles, King William's town
(Social Dynamics, 1990)This paper, through a detailed examination of one of the biggest and most significant strikes in the East London region, suggests its importance lies both in the events and processes of the strike itself, and in its longer ... -
“Youth speaking truth to power”: Intersectional decolonial activism in Namibia
(Springer, 2022)This article portrays a recent movement towards intersectional activism in urban Namibia. Since 2020, young Namibian activists have come together in campaigns to decolonize public space through removing colonial monuments ...