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Semiotic signature of transformation in a diachronic corpus of a South African political party
(Benjamins, 2019)
Corpus analysis has become established as an approach to the study of language
description or for applied pursuits in language teaching, terminology, and so on.
However, because of the social indexicalities of language ...
Un/making difference through performance and mediation in contemporary Africa
(Taylor & Francis, 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 revival ...
Canine embodiment in South African lyric poetry
(University of Pretoria, 2018)
This article discusses South African lyric poetry in English including translations
since the 1960s. Rather than being private statements, South African lyrics,
like all lyrics, are essentially dialogic—in relation to ...
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, ...
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 ...
Apartheid and the unconscious: An introduction
(Taylor and Francis Group, 2023)
This special issue invited contributors to revisit J.M. Coetzee’s “The Mind of Apartheid,” first published in Social Dynamics in 1991. Here, Coetzee asks what it might mean to come to terms with apartheid:It is not ...
Government by grants: The post-pandemic politics of welfare
(Johns Hopkins University Press, 2020)
In April 2020, with South Africa in national lockdown, president Cyril
Ramaphosa announced the Covid-19 relief program on a scale he called
‘historic’. He affirmed that the state would not only reestablish the economy
but ...
AIDS activism and globalisation from below: Occupying new spaces of citizenship in post-apartheid South Africa
(Institute of Development Studies, 2004)
Former President Nelson Mandela, Bono, Peter
Gabriel and other superstars stood together on the
stage at Greenpoint StadiuminCape Town in front
of billions of television viewers around the world,
watching the “46664”music ...