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Mobility and the city improvement district: Frictions in the human-capital mobile assemblage
(Taylor & Francis, 2016)
In this paper, we interrogate the role of the city improvement district (CID) in the
intervention and management of mobility within the context of the South African city and the
case study of the Groote Schuur Community ...
Epistemological access through lecture materials in multiple modes and language varieties: the role of ideologies and multilingual literacy practices in student evaluations of such materials at a South African University
(Springer, 2016)
This paper seeks to address the ways in which ideology and literacy practices shape the responses of students to an ongoing initiative at the University of the Western Cape aimed at diversifying options for epistemological ...
Quartering the city in discourse and bricks: Articulating urban change in a South African enclave
(Springer, 2016)
Focusing on the urban enclave in Cape Town known as De Waterkant, this paper examines the product and process of ‘quartering’ urban space—shaping urban space as the locus for the symbolic framing of culture. This paper ...
Breaking the mold of disciplinary area studies
(Indiana University Press, 2016)
At the outset of an edited volume on Intellectuals and African Development, the question is posed about what went wrong.1 The call for self-reflection perhaps anticipates a further question—about how to account for the ...
Theorising terminology development: Frames from language acquisition and the philosophy of science
(UNISA Press, 2016)
The manner in which our conceptualisation and practice of terminology development can be informed by processes of knowledge change in child language development and a paradigm shift in disciplines, has been relatively ...
“Then You Are a Man, My Son”: Kipling and the Zuma rape trial
(Duke University Press, 2016)
It is now a decade since Jacob Zuma, current president of South Africa, stood trial for rape, and while much writing has been generated about this trial, Judge Willem J. van der Merwe’s hypothetical supplement to Kipling’s ...
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 ...
This thing called communitarianism: A critical review of Matolino's Personhood in African Philosophy
(Philosophical Society of Southern Africa, 2015)
The subject of personal identity has received substantial treatment in contemporary
African philosophy. Importantly, the dominant approach to personal identity is
communitarian. Bernard Matolino's new book Personhood in ...
City of Cape Town libraries' segregated history: 1952-1972
(University of KwaZulu-Natal, 2015)
This article investigates the history and development of the Cape Town City Libraries (CTCL) from 1952-1972 and examines the effect of apartheid legislation on establishing a public library system. Legislation introduced ...
The extreme claim, psychological continuity and the person life view
(Philosophical Society of Southern Africa, 2015)
Marya Schechtman has raised a series of worries for the Psychological Continuity
Theory of personal identity (PCT) stemming from what Derek Parfit called the
'Extreme Claim'. This is roughly the claim that theories like ...