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Performative ethnography: difference and conviviality of everyday multiculturalism in Bellville (Cape Town)
(Taylor & Francis, 2017)
The paper explores the benefits of performative ethnography as a methodological intervention. The intervention discussed in this paper utilizes the persuasive power of aesthetics and performance to attain participation ...
Making sense of the information seeking process of undergraduates in a specialised university: revelations from dialogue journaling on WhatsApp messenger
(Informaing Science Institute, 2017)
AIM/PURPOSE
The research work investigated the information seeking process of undergraduates in a specialised university in Nigeria, in the course of a group assignment.
BACKGROUND
Kuhlthau’s Information Search Process ...
Un/making difference through performance and mediation in contemporary Africa
(Routledge, 2017)
This special issue of the Journal of African Cultural Studies grew out of a panel we organized
at the European Conference on African Studies in Lisbon in June 2013. Our starting point
was the observation of a massive ...
'A glimpse into Bushman mythology': interpretation, power and knowledge
(Routledge, 2017)
In 1873, Qing, a young man of Bushman background, recounted a cycle of stories and
commented on some of the rock paintings he and the magistrate Joseph Orpen saw on a
journey through the Maloti mountains. A year later ...
Mobile heterotopia: movement, circulation and the function of the university
(University of the Western Cape, 2017)
This paper explores the function of the university through the lens of mobility as seen from a South African perspective. Understanding the role of the university as one that requires the movement and circulation of academic ...
What lies beneath: exploring the deeper purposes of feedback on student writing through considering disciplinary knowledge and knowers
(Taylor & Francis, 2017)
Feedback plays an integral role in students’ learning and development, as it is often the only personal communication that students have with tutors or lecturers about their own work. Yet, in spite of its integral role in ...
Women, priests and the Anglican Church in Southern Africa: reformation of holy hierarchies
(Scholars Commons @ Laurier, 2017)
The Anglican Church in Southern Africa (ACSA) is celebrating the twenty-fifth
anniversary of the ordination of women to the priesthood in 2017. The quotation
above is a statement made by the South African Council of ...
The power and perils of participant observation in library and information science research: reflections on three South African studies
(UNISA Press, 2017)
This article reports on three participant observation studies conducted in schools and libraries in South Africa, between 1999 and 2015. The study findings have been reported on elsewhere, thus the focus is on the methodologies ...
The role of personhood in development: An African perspective on development in South Africa
(Southern African Missiological Society (SAMS), 2017)
The question that this article addresses is the role of personhood in development
in post-Apartheid South Africa. Modernisation and Dependency theories have not
been successful in the development of South Africa over the ...
Practical theology and narrative: Contours and markers
(Stellenbosch University, 2017)
There has been a definite turn in practical theology and theology at large in the last
four decades. The inadequacies of the Enlightenment project to keep in tension the
rational and non-rational traditions of interpretations, ...