Faculty of Arts: Recent submissions
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Greener on the other side: tracing stories of amaranth and moringa through indenture
(Routledge, 2023)All commercial apple fruit (Malus Domestica (Borkh) exported from semi-arid regions are grown under irrigation with drip and micro sprinkler systems being the most widely used. Few studies have directly compared ... -
Proposed standard guideline for managing information systems (ISs) in libraries in Africa
(Emerald publishing limited, 2023)Libraries in Africa are adopting technology at a fast pace. However, literature has provided enough evidence of the many challenges libraries on the continent are facing in the use of the adopted information technology of ... -
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Ghosts of the Indian Ocean
(Routledge, 2003)Once I dreamt about the ghosts of whales and dolphin sand unknown people deep in the underbelly of the harbour, ,just South of Durban’s promenade. Skeletal and blurry they whirled and murmured messages of murder and cruelty ... -
Toward gender justice
(World Council of Churches, 2023)This article reflects on our experiences of facilitating the Bible studies for the Just Community of Women and Men pre-assembly gathering to the 11th Assembly of the World Council of Churches in August–September 2022. ... -
On and beyond artifacts in moral relations: accounting for power and violence in Coeckelbergh’s social relationism
(Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH, 2023)The ubiquity of technology in our lives and its culmination in artifcial intelligence raises questions about its role in our moral considerations. In this paper, we address a moral concern in relation to technological ... -
Must Dias fall? The politics and history of settler heritage in Southern Africa
(Taylor & Francis, 2023)In the aftermath of the ‘Rhodes Must Fall’ Movement and the ‘Black Lives Matter’ protests, the politics of heritage has been at the centre of new intellectual debates and political demands, especially in relation to the ... -
Toward gender justice: reimagining religion, race, gender, and sexuality in acts 8:26-40
(World Council of Churches, 2023)This article reflects on our experiences of facilitating the Bible studies for the Just Community of Women and Men pre-assembly gathering to the 11th Assembly of the World Council of Churches in August–September 2022. ... -
Military identities among Rwandan army deserters in South Africa
(Routledge, 2023)This paper examines the military identity of soldiers who deserted from the Rwanda Defence Force (RDF) and try to make a living in South Africa. Because they are deserters they try to hide their military identity, yet it ... -
South African critical masculinities studies: a scan of past, current and emerging priorities
(Routledge, 2023)Depending on the position from which it is read, and what is regarded as the beginning of the history of the field, South African critical studies on men and masculinities have a relatively estimable though comparatively ... -
Re-viewing Peer Reviewing: Towards an Affirmative Scholarship
(University of Johannesburg, 2023)Although often unacknowledged and unrewarded, peer reviewing is a crucial part of the process of academic scholarship. Surprisingly, not much has been written on the process and experience of peer reviewing, besides a few ... -
Harmony amidst conflict: using “heal the world” as advocacy for peace between palestine and israel
(African Journal of Peace and Conflict Studies, 2024)This study explored the potential of Michael Jackson's iconic song, "Heal the World," to serve as an effective advocacy tool for peace between Palestine and Israel. Released in 1991, the song's universal message of love, ... -
The past in present African urban mobility systems: Towards a mobilities longue durée
(Springer Nature, 2023)Building on the notion that mobility plays a critical role in everyday urban life in Africa as elsewhere, this editorial provides an introduction to the special collection ‘The Past in Present African Urban Mobility Systems’. ... -
A critical discourse analysis of maphalla’s selected poems: South Africa’s pre-democratic election messages
(Routledge, 2023)The years 1990 to 1994 were the most critical years in the lives of all South Africans. For writers, this period presented an opportunity for expressions that have long been suppressed due to the censoring of writers in ... -
Book review: scripting defiance: four sociological vignettes
(SAGE, 2023)Background: Scripting Defiance is vast, notwithstanding the modesty of its subtitle – Four Sociological Vignettes. It comes in at 530 pages. It is fundamentally vast in ambition, with its breadth of empirical examples, and ... -
From eco-jihad to politicization: A corpus-based eco-linguistic discourse analysis of the arab media coverage of the safer floating oil tanke
(Sciedu Press, 2023)This study attempts a corpus-based discourse analysis of the coverage of the FSO Safer in Arabic media to determine the main recurrent categories and themes in the coverage produced by outlets associated with conflicting/warring ... -
Food shaming and race, and hungry translations
(Taylor & Francis, 2023)Eating While Black: Food Shaming and Race in America by Psyche A. Williams-Forson (2022) and Hungry Translations: Relearning the World Through Radical Vulnerability by Richa Nagar (2019) deal with food and hunger in relation ... -
Black theologies of liberation: how should black lives matter theologically?
(The Ecumenical Review, 2022)This article introduces this thematic issue of The Ecumenical Review, which originates from a colloquium hosted at the University of the Western Cape on Black theologies. Our aim is to propose a set of theological frames ... -
Longing for Love: Eros and National Belonging in Three Novels by Rayda Jacobs
(Unisa Press, 2022)The female Muslim descendant of Cape slavery is a key figure in the work of South African writer, Rayda Jacobs. Three of her novels, in particular, seem to track the social and political genealogy of the female Muslim ... -
Narratives of HIV disclosure and masculinity in a South African village
(Routledge, 2012)This paper describes men’s experiences of disclosing their HIV status, arguing thatdisclosure restored their social respect, which was previously undermined by an illnessfrom AIDS. Results are from a 14-month ...