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The Centre for Multilingualism and Diversities Research at the University of the Western Cape, South Africa
(University of the Western Cape, 2014)
There is an urgency in theorising how
diversity is negotiated, communicated,
and disputed as a matter of everyday
ordinariness that is compounded by the
clear linkages between diversity, transformation,
voice, agency, ...
South Africa: anthropology or anthropologies?
(American Anthropological Association, 2015)
A direct result of South Africa’s specific history has been the extraordinary significance of its contested, if not conflicting, political and ideological positions on anthropology’s South African trajectories. This was ...
Africa after apartheid: South Africa, race, and nation in Tanzania
(Routledge, 2016)
South African economic and political expansion into the African continent has been a controversial
feature of the post-apartheid era. Now human geographer Richard Schroeder has taken up the matter
in an ethnographic study ...
Beyond nostalgia in the search for identity: Black liberation theology and the politics of reconciliation
(AOSIS, 2021)
Practitioners of Black liberation theology often reflect on the emergence of this theological
expression by means of a nostalgic launch into the past, seeking ways to address some of
today’s most pressing concerns. In ...
Negotiating race and belonging in a post-apartheid South Africa: Bernadette’s stories
(Kings College, Univ. of London, 2014)
Although apartheid officially ended in 1994, race as a primary marker of identity has
continued to permeate many aspects of private and public life in a post-apartheid
South Africa. This paper explores how race is ...
Transitivity and the narrator's role in selected TRC testimonies
(Stellenbosch University, 2006)
This paper seeks to explore how two different narrators at a hearing of South Africa's Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) represent the same set of events. With the use of analytical concepts and frameworks drawn ...
Knowledge, values, and beliefs in the South African context since 1948: An overview
(Wiley, 2015)
In this contribution, an overview of the distinct waysin which the interplay between knowledge, values, and beliefs tookshape in the South African context since 1948 is offered. This is framedagainst the background of the ...
Multilingualism as racialization
(University of Western Cape, 2021)
South African today remains a nation torn by violence and racial inequity. One of major challenges for its people is to create new futures across historically constituted racial divides, by finding ways ...
The absurdity of reconciliation. What we (should) learn from Rustenburg and the implications for South Africa
(Pieter de Waal Neethling Trust, 2020)
The quest for reconciliation in South Africa is an exercise in the absurd. To say it is an
exercise for the absurd might also have some merit. Like Sisyphus, the figure in Greek
mythology, those engaged in the quest for ...
Crime, community and the governance of violence in post-apartheid South Africa
(Taylor and Francis Group, 2008)
The South African government has embarked on a programme ofencouraging social cohesion in South Africa first to address concerns stemmingfrom high levels of violent crime which characterise the society, and second, ...