Browsing Research Publications (Centre for Humanities Research) by Title
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Government by grants: The post-pandemic politics of welfare
(Johns Hopkins University Press, 2020)In April 2020, with South Africa in national lockdown, president Cyril Ramaphosa announced the Covid-19 relief program on a scale he called ‘historic’. He affirmed that the state would not only reestablish the economy but ... -
The grammar of domination and the subjection of agency: colonial texts and modes of evidence
(Blackwell Publishing, 2000-12)This article focuses on colonial accounts of the killing of the Xhosa chief, Hintsa, in 1835 at the hands of British forces along what came to be known as the Eastern Cape frontier. It explores the evidentiary procedures ... -
Incomplete histories: Steve Biko, the politics of self-writing and the apparatus of reading
(Southern African Literature and Culture Centre, UKZN, 2004)This paper gathers together deliberations surrounding Steve Biko’s I Write What I Like as it simultaneously registers the critical importance of the text as an incomplete history. Rather than presupposing the text as a ... -
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 ... -
Inxeba (The Wound), Queerness and Xhosa Culture
(Taylor & Francis, 2020)This article focuses on the controversy caused by the release of the film Inxeba (The Wound). Inxeba depicts a complex intersection of rites of passage, masculinities, queerness and the relationships between men in a ... -
Journeys from the horizons of history: Text, trial and tales in the construction of narratives of pain
(Southern African Literature and Culture Centre, UKZN, 1996-10)This article draws inspiration from Jauss's theorisation of the concepts of horizon, reception, and construction. The problem we confront relates to the way we receive, interpret, and apply texts without cognisance of ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
Memory burns
(José Frantz, 2020)Among the photograph collections at Mayibuye, especially from IDAF, are numerous contact sheets. The contact sheet was part of the toolkit of the photographer in the time of analogue photography. The contact sheet is ... -
Memory, oral history and conservation at Robben Island's Bluestone Quarry
(Taylor & Francis, 2017)This article is a critical examination of a conservation project on the restoration of the Stone Wall at Bluestone Quarry on Robben Island, a world heritage site. The project attracted different stakeholders with diverse ... -
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 ... -
Nationalism and exile in an age of solidarity: Frelimo–ZANU relations in Mozambique (1975–1980)
(Taylor & Francis, 2017)This article contributes to our knowledge on the intricate relations between host governments and liberation movements and on the workings of transnational military partnerships in the anticolonial struggles of the 1970s, ... -
Navigating ethnicity, nationalism and Pan-Africanism – Kimbanguists, identity and colonial borders
(AOSIS, 2021)The Kimbanguists, whose church is based on the healing and proclamation ministry of Simon Kimbangu in 1921 in the Belgian Congo, challenge colonially defined borders and identities in multiple ways. Anticolonialism is ... -
On uncertainty
(University of the Western Cape, Centre for Humanities, 2018)There is some uncertainty written into the form of this paper because, while it seeks to use scholarly procedures in engaging with the philosophical questions provoked by Ludwig Wittgenstein's late speculative essay On ... -
Performing the struggle against apartheid opposing apartheid on stage: King Kong the musical
(Cambridge University Press, 2023)Tyler Fleming’s book provides an account of the first production of ‘King Kong’ — a musical theatre production based on the life of the boxer Ezekiel Dlamini — in 1959. This musical rankled the apartheid state partly ... -
A “poor man’s pleasure”: The cinema house and its publics in twentieth century South Africa
(Taylor and Francis Group, 2023)What do cinema houses have to tell us about the experience ofcollective leisure in early twentieth-century South Africa? Thisarticle considers how the cinema house points to unprecedentedsocial conditions that allowed the ... -
Religious leaders as agents of Lgbtiq inclusion in east Africa
(Oxford University Press, 2023)When Ugandan parliamentarians passed a new Anti-Homosexuality Bill in March 2023, they reportedly did so under pressure from, and with the enthusiastic support of, religious leaders.1 In other African countries, too, recent ... -
The ‘Rough edge of deterritorialisation’: Contemplation
(Taylor & Francis, 2016)To frame this paper, which given its focus on the installation Red should ostensibly deal with a question of aesthetics and technology, with an epigraph that situates the contemplative capacity of a cow alongside the echo ... -
Sara's suicide: History and the representational limit
(University of the Western Cape, 2000)This paper deals with cognitive failures and historiographical blind spots in legal and historical representations of the colonised subject. It concerns an archival fragment from the seventeenth century - the suicide of a ...