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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 ...
The enchantment of freedom at University of the Western Cape
(José Frantz, 2020)
The history of the modern university is ,first and foremost ,the history of the unfolding of complex problematics of
a planetary condition through established scientific and
humanistic inquiry. Defined as such, the work ...
An archive of the future
(José Frantz, 2020)
The University of the Western Cape (UWC) recently entered into a partnership with photographer Rashid Lombard to
house his substantial archival collection, which promises to offer
expanded perspectives on the everyday ...
The need for a new language? How historically disadvantaged institutions grapple with the effects of labelling in Higher Education: the case of the University of the Western Cape
(Taylor & Francis, 2017)
Tertiary institutions in South Africa have been dichotomised through the colonial structure and apartheid which sought to subjugate some institutions and elevate others. Not only have historically disadvantaged institutions ...
Little Amal
(José Frantz, 2020)
When South Africa celebrated Heritage Day this year, Boschendal Estate in Franschhoek provided an ideal backdrop for the first steps of Little Amal, a three-metre puppet created by the Handspring Puppet Company from South ...
International initiative prepares students for citizenship
(José Frantz, 2020)
We live in an era of complexity, uncertainty, grave challenges
and global development threats. These include extreme
poverty and inequality, identity politics, intolerance, societal
polarisation and populist politics ...
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 ...
The constitutional conversation between the federal structure and a bill of rights
(Community Law Centre, University of the Western Cape, 2015-01)
It is often assumed that a constitution speaks with one voice and that all parts are in harmony with each other. Although different provisions can be given higher status than others (as reflected in the more arduous amendment ...
The University of Western Cape Project on Ecclesiology and Ethics
(John Wiley & Sons, 2015)
In its simplest terms, the tension between ecclesiology and ethics is between what the
church is and what it does, between what it is supposed to be and what it is supposed
to do, between what it believes about itself ...
Diversity and contested social identities in multilingual and multicultural contexts of the University of the Western Cape, South Africa
(Taylor & Francis, 2015)
We draw on Rampton's Crossing: Language and Ethnicity Among
Adolescents (2014. 2nd ed. New York: Routledge) notion of 'crossing' to
explore contestations in ethnolinguistic, cultural and racial affiliations at
the ...