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Orders of protection: Feminist lessons in anti-privatization and authoritarianism from South Africa
(Society for Cultural Anthropology, 2022)
The feminist adage “the personal is political” is not ahistorical. It is being operationalized in a time when the relationship between the private and the public is undergoing historic transformation. Making privatized ...
Black Belonging, White Belonging: Primitive Accumulation in South Africa's Private Nature Reserves
(Wiley, 2023)
victions have been shown to be a mechanism of primitive accumulation in nature conservation. This paper adds an historical analysis to the discussion on primitive accumulation in conservation by exploring the seemingly ...
The letters of Sushila Gandhi: From press worker to managing trustee of Phoenix settlement in South Africa, 1927 to 1977
(SAGE Publications, 2023)
On 18 March 1949, Sita Gandhi, the eldest daughter of Manilal and Sushila Gandhi, responded to a request for information from Louis Fischer who was writing his biography of Mohandas Gandhi. The 21 years old had taken over ...
A “poor man’s pleasure”: The cinema house and its publics in twentieth century South Africa
(Taylor and Francis Group, 2023)
What do cinema houses have to tell us about the experience ofcollective leisure in early twentieth-century South Africa? Thisarticle considers how the cinema house points to unprecedentedsocial conditions that allowed the ...
Auditing and the unconscious: Managerialism’s memory traces
(Taylor and Francis Group, 2023)
This paper takes J.M. Coetzee’s “The Mind of Apartheid” as a point
of departure in thinking about audits in universities. Using the
psychoanalytic framing of apartheid that Coetzee puts in place,
audit is likened here ...
Some new perspectives on the Soweto uprising: H. M. L. Lentsoane’s poem “Black Wednesday” (“Laboraro le lesoleso”)
(Tydskrif vir Letterkunde Association, 2022)
The epic poem about the Soweto uprising, “Laboraro le lesoleso”, written in Sepedi
(Northern Sotho) by H. M. L. Lentsoane has only recently been translated into English by
Biki Lepota as “Black Wednesday” and published ...
’n Geskiedenis van Afrikaans as kerktaal: Van altaar tot kansel
(University of Pretoria, 2022)
This contribution shines a critical light on the representation of Afrikaans as a language of
the Church in external histories about the development and advancement of the language,
inclusive histories particularly. It ...
Black health, ethics, and global ecology
(Taylor and Francis Group, 2022)
The reflections offered here come from someone the South African government
classified as white or as European under apartheid, who continues to
be classified in that manner under affirmative action, and who has worked
at ...
dalawhatyoumust: Kaaps, translingualism and linguistic citizenship in Cape Town, South Africa
(Discourse, Context & Media, 2023)
In 2016 Wayde Van Niekerk, a South African athlete of mixed-race heritage won an Olympic gold medal. In South Africa, his win caused hashtags such as #proudlysouthafrican, #blackexcellence and #colouredexcellence to trend ...
Urban agriculture and the sustainability nexus in South Africa: Past, current, and future trends
(Springer, 2023)
Urban agriculture remains a topical issue that needs to be better understood in striving
for sustainable cities, particularly in sub-Saharan Africa. Through a literature
review, this article examines urban agriculture ...