Faculty of Arts: Recent submissions
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Space/place matters
(CMDR 2017, 2017)This special issue of Multilingual Margins on the theme of “Space/ place matters” has its origin in a doctoral summer school organised in December 2016 by the Department of Linguistics and the Centre for Multilingualism ... -
Learning through linguistic citizenship: finding the “I” of the essay
(University of the Western Cape, 2019)In recent years, the South African higher education system has seen growing calls for broadened epistemic access, decolonised curricula and transformed institutions. Scholars across South Africa have taken up the challenge ... -
Introduction and decolonial pedagogies, multilingualism and literacies
(University of the Western Cape, 2019)This Special Issue of Multilingual Margins brings together a number of creative, reflective and academic writings and artefacts that emerged from a new interinstitutional postgraduate module, Re-imagining Multilingualisms, ... -
“Connecting Mind to Pen, to Eyes, to Face, to Arms and Legs”: Toward a Performative and Decolonial Teaching Practice
(Cambridge University Press, 2020)The push to sustain online learning platforms that have been established in the wake of Covid-19 at South African universities raises a number of concerns. Apart from highlighting the stark and ongoing social inequities ... -
Philosophy of education in a new key: Cultivating a living philosophy of education to overcome coloniality and violence in African Universities
(Taylor & Francis, 2020)In this conversational article, we consider cultivating decoloniality in university education by drawing upon Jacques Ranci ere’s (2010) notion of a living philosophy. Ranci ere’s (2010) living philosophy holds the possibility ... -
Socially just pedagogies and social justice: The intersection of teaching ethics at higher education level and social justice
(OpenJournals Publishing AOSIS (Pty) Ltd, 2020)This article is part of a longer term project between the Department of Religion and Theology at the University of the Western Cape and Umea University in Sweden. At both the institutions the teaching of ethics as a module ... -
Introduction: Reinscribing Nuruddin Farah in African literature
(Tydskrif vir Letterkunde Association, 2020)The commissioning of a theme issue on the work of Farah in a South African literary journal therefore is noteworthy both in African continental and world literature contexts. Commemorating Farah’s career in Tydskrif vir ... -
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 ... -
‘When great Tao vanished, we got “goodness and morality”’
(OpenJournals Publishing AOSIS (Pty) Ltd, 2020)The Department of Religion and Theology introduced ethics as a major in the Faculty of Arts at the University of the Western Cape (UWC) about 20 years ago. After a shaky start, it became wildly popular. Currently, we try, ... -
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 ... -
Sociolinguistics and modes of social class signalling: African perspectives
(Wiley-Blackwell, 2020)The paper evaluates spatial, behavioural, and material signal-ling of social class in African contexts, focusing on Kenya and Zambia. In particular, it draws on notions of mode of class signalling and intersectionality and ... -
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 ... -
A records management model for an intelligent university
(South African Society of Archivists, 2019)This article is based on an MLIS case study undertaken at the University of the Western Cape. The article is meant to add knowledge and insight into university records management and presents a records management model for ... -
What diagnosis? Which remedy? Critical reflections on the diagnostic overview of South Africa’s national planning commission
(Stellenbosch University, 2018)This contribution offers some critical reflections on the Diagnostic Overview produced by the South African National Planning Commission. The argument is structured in the form of catena and commentary with main sections ... -
Ecumenical ecclesiology in the African context: towards a view of the church as Ubuntu
(Stellenbosch University, 2018)This purpose of this essay is to provide an overview of approaches to ecclesiology in the African context with specific reference to various institutional expressions of the ecumenical movement. While wider ecumenical ... -
Mapping Bodies
(University of the Western Cape, 2018)The images in the visual essay that follows this text are drawn from a set of partnered art events, the Museum of Truth and Reconciliation and Double Portrait/Haunting Objects. The latter took place at the University of ... -
Bureaucratically missing: Capital punishment, exhumations, and the afterlives of state documents and photographs
(University of the Western Cape, 2018)For their families, the bodies of many of those hanged by the apartheid state remain missing and missed. Judicial executions, and the corpses they produced, were hidden from the scrutiny of the public and the press. While ... -
TV is the devil, the devil is on TV: Wild religion and wild media in South Africa
(Association for the Study of Religion in Southern Africa, 2018)In keeping with trends in the academy and the rapidly increasing presence, power, and persuasion of digital and electronic media on the African continent and in the global economy, the study of religion and the media in ... -
Students’ narratives on gender and sexuality in the project of social justice and belonging in higher education
(South African Journal of Higher Education, 2018)Student protests in South Africa flag the well-documented lack of progress in transforming universities which mirror deeply entrenched inequalities. The imperative to challenge a system of higher education that continues ... -
Missing and missed: Rehumanisation, the nation and missing-ness
(University of the Western Cape, 2018)The bringing together of two lines of research that have previously been treated separately – namely the missing/missed body of apartheid-era atrocities and the racialised body of the colonial museum – animates this issue ...