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Anxious urbanity: xenophobia, the native subject and the refugee camp
(Routledge Taylor Francis Group, 2013)
Could we think of the black subject under apartheid as a refugee, and might this
condition be the paradigmatic metaphor for thinking about the postcolonial African
predicament of citizenship? This paper considers the ...
The virtual stampede for Africa: Digitisation, postcoloniality and archives of the liberation struggles in Southern Africa
(University of KwaZulu-Natal, 2007)
This article presents a polemical argument for a politics of digitisation that aims to politicise the archival disciplines while making sense of the conjuncture in which digitisation initiatives are mooted in Southern ...
When was South African history ever postcolonial?
(History Department, UWC, 2008)
In this article I argue that what enabled affiliation to the larger political project
against apartheid was precisely the production of a subject that was always,
and necessarily, threaded through a structure of racial ...
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 ...
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 ...
Apartheid's university: Notes on the renewal of the Enlightenment
(CODESRIA, 2007)
This paper sets to work on strategies for forging new and critical humanities at the institutional site of the university that appears to be trapped in the legacies of apartheid. The paper suggests that the university's ...
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 ...
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 ...
Elusive Jannah: The Somali diaspora and borderless Muslim identity, by Cawo M. Abdi
(York University Libraries, 2018)
Overall, Belonging and Transnational Refugee Settlement
should be applauded for emphasizing the need to recognize
the complexity of refugee lives, and to rethink the dominant
assumptions that so often render refugees ...
Africa’s living rivers: Managing for sustainability
(MIT Press, 2021)
Africa’s human population is growing rapidly and is set to account for 40 percent
of global numbers by 2100. Further development of its inland waters, to enhance
water and energy security, is inevitable. Will it follow ...