Faculty of Arts: Recent submissions
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Chapter 12 imagination and the eco-social crisis (or: why I write creative non-fiction)
(Brill, 2020)Green Matters reflects on the ‘unique cultural function’ of literary texts with regard to environmental and ecological concerns. Another way of putting this is to ask: what do literary texts enable us to say or do in ... -
At the limits of spatial governmentality: A message from the tip of Africa
(Taylor and Francis Group, 2002)Urban studies scholars drawing on Foucault’s analysis of govern-mentality have investigated how urban social orders are increasingly moreconcerned with the management of space rather than on the discipline ofoffenders ... -
Parents resist sexuality education through digital activism
(SAGE Publications, 2022)South Africa has high rates of HIV infection among its young population, high rates of unintended pregnancy among the youth, and extremely high rates of gender-based violence. Given all this, it is essential that young people ... -
Desert ethics, myths of nature and novel form in the narratives of Ibrahim al-Koni
(University of Pretoria, 2015)This broadly comparative essay contrasts environmentalism in the fiction in English translation of the Libyan writer, Ibrahim alKoni, with dominant trends in contemporary environmentalism. An analysis of three of the most ... -
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, ... -
Be a little careful: Women, violence, and performance in India
(Cambridge University Press, 2019)In this article Swati Arora analyzes a contemporary Indian feminist performance, Thoda Dhyaan Se (A Little Carefully, 2013), by framing it in the spatial ecosystem of the city of Delhi and exploring its engagement with ... -
'Africanisation' of South Africa's international air links, 1994-2003
(Elsevier, 2006)In the first decade of democratic rule in South Africa scheduled commercial passenger flights across the country’s borders more than doubled. Additional flights served new African air passenger markets and secondary airports ... -
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 ... -
Understanding refugee durable solutions by international players: Does dialogue form a missing link?
(Taylor and Francis Group, 2018)This study evaluates durable solutions in relation to refugees from EastAfrica. It particularly focuses on the Great Lakes countries of Rwanda, Burundi,Democratic Republic of Congo and Uganda. The study is based on the ... -
Martyrdom, violence, and dignity
(Escola Superior Teologia, 2019)This article reconsiders historically based arguments for Christian martyrdom, subjecting the tradition to an analysis suited to liberation of the marginalized. It begins with a description of the historical development ... -
‘… Oi, oi! … you must go by the right path’: Mofolo’s Chaka revisited via the original text
(University of Pretoria, 2016)Thomas Mofolo never defended himself against accusations that his novel Chaka distorts historical facts to express anti-Nguni sentiments under the guise of Christianity. But in a way he foreshadowed the possibility of it, ... -
Politicization and resistance in the Zimbabwean national army
(Oxford University Press, 2017)While the dominant discourse in Zimbabwe on and about soldiers is that they are perpetrators of political violence, this does not always reflect the lived experiences of soldiers who joined the army in post-independence ... -
Afrikaans students’ use of emojis
(South African Academy for Science and the Arts, 2023)Everyday five billion emojis are used on Facebook Messenger, one out of every five Twitter messages contains an emoji and half of all Instagram comments have an emoji (Emojipedia. org, 2022). The use of emojis in online ... -
Intersection of personhood and culture: A narrative approach of pastoral care to gender-based violence
(Klaasen, J. (2018). Intersection of personhood and culture: A narrative approach of pastoral care to gender-based violence. Scriptura ,117 (1), 1-11. https://doi.org/10.7833/117-1-1348, 2018)What contribution does a narrative approach make to effective care for those affected by gender-based violence? Notwithstanding the contributions of feminist theologians who take experience and identity seriously (Ackermann ... -
Rape culture: Sexual intimidation and partner rape among youth in sexually diverse relationships
(SAGE Publications, 2022)South African studies on rape culture have examined this issue in relation to heterosexuality. They demonstrate how toxic masculinity exercises sexual power by victimizing women and girls. However, little is known about ... -
Rulers or servants? A re-reading of psalm 8 concerning the place of humankind in the age of the anthropocene
(Stellenbosch University, 2022)With the Age of the Anthropocene and the clear signs of ecological destruction that have resulted from this rule of humans over the creation of God, it is essential that biblical scholars revisit the texts, both in the Old ... -
“Don’t They Know How Important It Is?”
(International Association of School Librarianship Conference Proceedings, 2021)The paper comes out of a month-long case study of information literacy education in two public libraries in a small South African town in the rural province of Mpumalanga, undertaken in October 2004. The participant ... -
All together now?
(International Association of School Librarianship Conference, 2019)The paper explores the meaning of the recently drafted National Policy for Library and Information Services (NPLIS) for school librarianship in South Africa. It argues that, after years of failed advocacy, a convergence ... -
Adultification, neglect and sexual abuse at home: selected narratives of orphaned girls in KwaMashu, South Africa
(John Wiley and Sons Inc, 2023)This paper explores two orphaned girls' accounts of victimization and vulnerability to child sexual abuse in their family homes. Interviews with these girls revealed a trend of neglect, adversity and processes of ... -
“Ndiyindoda” [I am a man]: Theorising Xhosa masculinity
(Taylor and Francis Group, 2016)Masculinity studies in South Africa depend on Western gender theories to frame research questions and fieldwork. This article argues that such theories offer a limited understanding of Xhosa ...
