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Looking back
(José Frantz, 2020)
Professors Patricia Hayes and Premesh Lalu have in this edition of Signals provided useful insight into the importance of theory,
history, archives and the humanities in South Africa, and how
they can help “assist us in ...
Women, priests and patriarchal ecclesial spaces in the Anglican church of Southern Africa: On ‘interruption’ asa transformative rhetorical strategy
(OpenJournals Publishing AOSIS (Pty) Ltd, 2020)
In spite of the presence of women in previously male-dominated ecclesial spaces, patriarchal normativity continues to be re-inscribed through the reproduction of knowledge, which sustains skewed gender power relations ...
Re-examining a theology of reconciliation: What we learn from the Kairos document and its pedagogical implications
(OpenJournals Publishing AOSIS (Pty) Ltd, 2020)
The Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) in South Africa is widely regarded as an organisation that was established to facilitate the transition from social conflict to a new dispensation. Frequently considered as the ...
Dual use school community libraries: expedient compromise or imaginative solution?
(University of Alberta Libraries, 2021-02)
The paper reports on a research project in a group of six dual use school community
libraries in a rural region of South Africa1. The six dual use libraries were established with donor
funding in 2001 as part of a larger ...
Unspoken inequality: How COVID-19 has exacerbated existing vulnerabilities of asylum-seekers, refugees, and undocumented migrants in South Africa
(Springer Nature, 2020)
An estimated 2 million foreign-born migrants of working age (15-64) were living in South Africa (SA) in 2017. Structural and practical xenophobia has driven asylum-seekers, refugees, and undocumented migrants in SA to ...
Public Libraries Stepping into the Gap?: A Study of School Learners' Use of Libraries in a Disadvantaged Community in Cape Town
(University of Alberta Libraries, 2021)
According to public library staff none of the Vista schools has a functioning library or a librarian on its staff. In itslack of school libraries Vista is no different from other parts of South Africa. Less than a third ...
Language practices as religious Innovation: The case of Pentecostal charismatic churches in xenophobic contexts
(SAGE, 2021)
In the authors’ recent case-study research of migrant-dominated Pentecostal charismatic churches (PCCs) in the South African cities of Johannesburg and Cape Town, language emerged as a prominent feature of religious practice, ...
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 ...
Talking parts, talking back: Fleshing out linguistic citizenship
(UNICAMP, 2020)
These are the bodies of children and men and women who have inherited the brutalities of
colonialism, plantation servitude and slavery and now re-live these miseries in the belly of
a rampant global neoliberal and ...
Insights and current debates on community engagement in higher education institutions: Perspectives on the University of the Western Cape
(SAGE Publications, 2021)
This study investigated the insights and current debates on community engagement in higher education institutions with
specific reference to the University of the Western Cape (UWC) in South Africa. The article argues ...