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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 ...
“I Am Human Too!” ‘probeerruimte’ as liminal spaces in search of recognition
(Cogitatio, 2016)
This paper explores the Dutch concept ‘probeerruimte’ in relation to the statement ‘human as a contested concept’, a
highly relevant topic in disability studies. Probeerruimte encompasses the idea that people need space ...
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 ...
Anxious urbanity: xenophobia, the native subject and the refugee camp
(Routledge Taylor Francis Group, 2013)
Could we think of the black subject under apartheid as a refugee, and might this
condition be the paradigmatic metaphor for thinking about the postcolonial African
predicament of citizenship? This paper considers the ...
Speak out on poverty: Hearing, inaudibility, and citizenship in post-apartheid South Africa
(WILEY, 2019)
In 1998, Speak Out on Poverty held hearings across South Africa shortly after the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) completed eighteen months of highly publicized, nationwide hearings at which victims testified. ...
Young people – citizens in times of climate change? A childist approach to human responsibility
(AOSIS, 2021)
The matters of climate change are presently of concern existentially and ethically to the children
and the youth. Worldwide school strikes in 2018–2019 and the Fridays for Future movement
demonstrate how the young citizens ...