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Staging historical argument: History I at the University of the Western Cape
(Routledge, 1996)This article focuses on the lecture-room debates which have been the central feature of the first-year history course at the University of the Western Cape (UWC) since 1993. The UWC History Department takes the position ... -
Starting the conversation: land issues and critical conservation studies in post-colonial Africa
(Taylor & Francis, 2013)This thematic issue brings together the scholarly fields of critical conservation studies and African land issues, a relationship largely unexplored to date. The alienation of land for conservation purposes, introduced to ... -
Streaming difference(s): Netflix and the branding of diversity
(SAGE Publications, 2023)Since 2020, Netflix has emphasised the diversity of representation the platform provides through its content. Following the publication of its diversity report, the streamer positions itself as a driver of inclusion for ... -
Student accounts of space and safety at a South African university: implications for social identities and diversity
(SAGE Publications, 2018)Transformation efforts in South African higher education have been under increased scrutiny in recent years, especially following the last years of student activism and calls for decolonization of universities. This article ... -
Students’ narratives on gender and sexuality in the project of social justice and belonging in higher education
(South African Journal of Higher Education, 2018)Student protests in South Africa flag the well-documented lack of progress in transforming universities which mirror deeply entrenched inequalities. The imperative to challenge a system of higher education that continues ... -
Students’ narratives on gender and sexuality in the project of social justice and belonging in higher education
(Stellenbosch University Library and Information Service, 2018)Student protests in South Africa over the last few years have re-energized the project of social justice in higher education. While emphasis has been on decolonizing the curriculum and the university spaces, there has also ... -
Students’ navigation of the uncharted territories of academic writing
(Taylor & Francis, 2013)Many students enter tertiary education unfamiliar with the ‘norms and conventions’ of their disciplines. Research into academic literacies has shown that in order to succeed in their studies, students are expected to ... -
Study groups and peer roles in mediated academic literacy events in multilingual educational contexts in South Africa
(SUN Journals, 2007)This paper explores the role of study groups in mediating academic writing, particularly among multilingual black students at the University of the Western Cape (UWC). Using data from questionnaires, focus groups, and ... -
Swearing at plants: A flash ethnography from Namaqualand
(José Frantz, 2021)In November 2018 we are at Willem’s veepos (stockpost) halfway between Paulshoek and Leliefontein in the Kamiesberg mountains. It is early summer and the scarlet red milkweed locusts (Phymateus morbilossus) have begun ... -
The taint of the censor: J.M. Coetzee and the making of In the Heart of the Country
(Institute for the Study of English in Africa, Rhodes University, 2008)With the publication of In the Heart of the Country by the London publisher Secker & Warburg in 1977, J. M. Coetzee had achieved international recognition for his second novel, transcending the narrow national literary ... -
Talking parts, talking back: Fleshing out linguistic citizenship
(UNICAMP, 2020)These are the bodies of children and men and women who have inherited the brutalities of colonialism, plantation servitude and slavery and now re-live these miseries in the belly of a rampant global neoliberal and ... -
Talking South African fathers: a critical examination of men’s constructions and experiences of fatherhood and fatherlessness
(Sage Publications, 2012)The absence of biological fathers in South Africa has been constructed as a problem for children of both sexes but more so for boy-children. Arguably the dominant discourse in this respect has demonized non-nuclear, ... -
Taxi ‘sugar daddies’ and taxi queens: male taxi driver attitudes regarding transactional relationships in the Western Cape, South Africa
(Taylor & Francis Open, 2012)Media reports are emerging on the phenomenon of young girls who travel with older mini-bus taxi drivers, and who are thought to have sex with the drivers in exchange for gifts and money. The extent to which such relationships ... -
Teacher as learner: a personal reflection on a short course for South African university educators
(Taylor & Francis, 2013)Higher education is understood to play a critical role in ongoing processes of social transformation in post-apartheid South Africa through the production of graduates who are critical and engaged citizens. A key challenge ... -
Teaching Masculinities in a South African Classroom
(University of the Western Cape, 2015)In terms of gender equity the first two decades of South African democracy have seen substantial change - at least where legislation is concerned. In terms of daily lived realities however, such change seems to have had ... -
Technological fictions and personal identity: on Ricoeur, Schechtman and analytic thought experiments
(Taylor & Francis, 2016)It is notable when philosophers in one tradition take seriously the work in another and engage with it. This is certainly the case when Paul Ricoeur engages with the thought of Derek Parfit on personal identity. He sees ... -
Teenage pregnancy and parenting at school in contemporary South African contexts: deconstructing school narratives and understanding policy implementation
(University of the Free State, 2013)South African national education policy is committed to promoting gender equality at school and to facilitating the successful completion of all young people’s schooling, including those who may become pregnant and parent ... -
Ten years of democracy: attitudes and identity among some South African school children
(Stellenbosch University, 2004)Ten years into South Africa’s democracy, how do school children feel about themselves as part of specific groups, and what is the role of language in their socio-cultural identities? This paper looks at the ways in which ... -
Texting literacies as social practices among older women
(Stellenbosch University, 2014)While many studies on mobile messaging have tended to focus on the communicative practices of the urban young, this paper considers the role of mobile messaging (also called texting) both as a social practice as well as ... -
The Ecumenical Movement and development: The role of personhood
(Stellenbosch University, 2015)This article is part of several contributions that was presented at the 2015 Southern African Missiological Society (SAMS). The conference theme was undergirded by the theme of the World Council of Churches (WCC) assembly ...