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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 ...
‘It’s just taking our souls back’: discourses of apartheid and race
(Routledge, 2015)
Although apartheid officially ended in 1994, the issue of race as a primary identity marker has continued to permeate many aspects of private and public life in post-apartheid South Africa. This paper seeks to understand ...
North-South dialogues: reflecting on working transnationally with young men, masculinities and gender justice
(Scandinavian University Press, 2015)
Dialoguing across national borders and specifically global North-South centres and
margins has increasingly been viewed as a way to enhance critical and feminist studies
and engagement with men and masculinities. This ...
'... a huge monster that should be feared and not done': Lessons learned in sexuality education classes in South Africa
(UNISA, 2015)
Research has foregrounded the way in which heterosexual practices for many young people are not
infrequently bound up with violence and unequal transactional power relations. The Life Orientation
sexuality education ...
The drive for school libraries in South Africa: intersections and connections
(Johns Hopkins University Press, 2015)
This paper traces the important developments in school librarianship in South Africa since 2007, during which time the drive to address
huge backlogs in school library provision has gained momentum - largely, it argues, ...
Linguistic citizenship as Utopia
(University of the Westen Cape, 2015)
A major challenge of our time is to build a life of equity in a fragmented world of globalized ethical, economic and ecological meltdown. In this context, language takes on singular importance as the foremost means whereby ...
Drag kings in Cape Town: The performance of gendered subjectivities online
(University of the Westen Cape, 2015)
The last few decades have seen the development of a large body of scholarly work on drag queens and performances of femininity by men (see Barrett 1995, 1999). However, performances of masculinity by women have largely ...
Schooling Superdiversity: Linguistic features as linguistic resources in two Manenberg classrooms in the Western Cape
(CMDR, 2015)
This study is a working paper which addresses the need for the accommodation of linguistic diversity and mixed linguistic repertoires in the classroom context, due to the rise ...
The importance of unimportant language
(University of the Western Cape, 2015)
In a recent paper, the Australian historian, Martyn Lyons (2013), reviews his attempts to study ‘history from below’, using what can be called grassroots writing by French and ...
‘Hallo hoe gaan dit, wat maak jy?’: Phatic communication, the mobile phone and coping strategies in a South African context
(University of the Western Cape, 2015)
This paper looks at the ways in which the mobile phone has become a means through
which phatic communication is being expressed. More specifically, the paper shows
how, in an impoverished community such as the Wesbank ...