Browsing Faculty of Arts by Subject "Agency"

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    • Construals of agency in the testimony of Colin de Souza 

      Bock, Zannie (Academia Press, 2009)
      In this paper, I analyse the testimony of Colin de Souza given before South Africa's Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) in the mid-1990s.1 My aim is to explore how De Souza projects an identity of himself as 'agentive', ...

    • Rethinking medicinal plants and plant medicines 

      Gibson, Diana (National Inquiry Services Centre, 2018)
      Because plants are perceived as sessile and immobile, they are often represented as objects or things in current literature. In this paper, I explore variations and shifts in research and literature since 2000 that ...

    • Smoking around the campfire: A San encounter with the colonial 

      Wessels, Michael (Taylor & Francis, 2016)
      In 1873 Joseph Orpen, resident of Nomansland, engaged a San1 man Qing to guide a combined force of levies and mounted police through the Maloti mountains in present-day Lesotho where they hoped to intercept a group of ...