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2020
Assessing marine mammal health to monitor impacts of ‘Operation Phakisa’- the South African Ocean Health Network (OHN)
Marine mammals are good indicators of ocean health, reflecting the state of the marine ecosystem.
Beyond Networks: an Organismic Systems Biology for the 21st Century
Biology is the science of life.
Cartographies of Hospitality The Gendered, Racialised, and Classed Politics of Hosting
Hospitality has become an increasingly important theme in the contemporary discourse of migration.
Citizenship, International Justice, and the View from the South
The project is based primarily on a book manuscript under contract with Routledge Press: Citizenship in a Globalized World.
Consumerism and its dissidents: a social history of white South Africa, c 1950s -1970s
In general South African historiography has been marked by constant emphasis on apartheid, black resistance and formal Afrikaner politics has.
Continued work on the evolution of skin colour
While at STIAS, I plan to complete a long-standing data analysis of large bodies of archaeological, paleontological, and climatological data in order to gain a comprehensive understanding of the evolution of skin colour in Homo sapiens for a joint project with Nina Jablonski.
Directorial Authority and the Formation of the Modern Executive. The Governance of the African Chartered Companies
This is a proposal that seeks to advance a new interpretation of the history of the formation of ideas and institutions of the Executive branch of government.
Embodied Human Freedom
This research is a part of a larger project: a book on a philosophical account of human freedom, drawing strongly on the German philosopher Immanuel Kant.
Federalism in Africa in Comparative Perspective
Federalism is arguably one of the less explored subjects in African political studies.
Gender, Luxury, Waste: New Intersections in Southern Consumption Theory
This project will bring together original, recently completed empirical work examining cultural and media dimensions of three key facets of contemporary consumer culture in the global south, with a view to generating new theory relevant to consumption in the global south.
Gender, Sufi Ethics and Social justice in Islam
This project is based on completing a book manuscript focussed on Gender, Sufi Ethics and Social justice in Islam, which is under contract to Oneworld Academic Publications for their series Islam in the 21stCentury.
Global Humanities
This application is the first part of a larger long-term project on the establishment of an Academy of Global Humanities.
Hair: The Natural and Unnatural History of a Human Obsession
Hair is one of the most distinctive features of the human species and of individual people.
ICT-Based Platforms as a Driver of the Transformation of Africa's Smallholder Agriculture
For a number of years we have been observing the rapid growth and proliferation of ICT-based platforms for small farmers all over Africa.
Is Somaliland a Country? The Status of Institutional Objects in the Social Sciences
Somaliland is a democratically governed, autonomous region that defends its borders and issues currency in its own name.
Local media: Western media in a context of orality in Africa
This book project in four parts intends to study how people, coming from a centuries-old orality, act in a context of copyright introduced by colonial and postcolonial authority.
Making Sense of Postgraduate Education in Context
Discourses related to globalisation privilege the role of knowledge workers in economic development.
Open air discourse: romances of resistance in the Somali women’s struggle for independence
Mingling together historical record, myth and fiction, my aim is to write a play taking place in Mogadishu during the struggle for independence from Italy soon after the Second World War.
Scientific persona and internalization of research – the role of the Rockefeller Foundation in creating scientific and scholarly identities and promoting academic careers in early twentieth century Sweden
American philanthropy, notably the Rockefeller Foundation (RF), played an important role in the internalization of research in Europe after the First World War.
Single polarized-photon emitters based on III-nitride pyramidal quantum dots for quantum cryptography
The modern society is reliant on digital communication, at present experiencing an immense expansion, but the communication should also be secure.
Stellenbosch innovation district
The clustering of economic activity has brought economic benefits in the past - London for finance, Hollywood for film, San Francisco for tech.
The ambiguity of English as an academic lingua franca: Perspectives from South Africa
Grounded in linguistic anthropology, the primary objective of this project is to provide a nuanced ethnographic account of how the sociocultural ambiguity of English as an academic lingua franca is one of its most defining features in the South Africa education system.
The Disorder Project
The Disorder is a body of work developed under the rubric of an ongoing project namely, To Be King.
The Impact of Social Media on Science Communication
Social media are now a major part of our daily life.
The impact of technological change on developing countries
The accelerating capability of computing power and development of artificial intelligence poses new questions regarding the future of work.
The Morality of Martiality: Beyond Good and Evil in Liberation Struggles
This is an interdisciplinary research project on the morality of martiality.
The story of Jabu Vilakazi – the Robin Hood of Soweto
The tension between personal experience, memory and historical fact is dynamic.
The theoretical alignment of Bayesian statistics and cumulative prospect theory
The focus of this research is combining Bayesian statistics, in particular Bayesian data analysis, with utility theory.
The UN and its Discontents
The project aims to explore little-studied dynamics among and behaviour of UN member states and staff members that constrain the organization, and render it resistant to meaningful reform and vulnerable to achieving sub-optimal results, against two possible overall hypotheses:Hypothesis 1: The UN’s underperformance is rooted in structural tensions: a) between sovereignty-based principles and between expectations that the Secretary-General needs a degree of policy autonomy; b) between a UN that relies on member states for funding and backing and a UN that is tasked to uphold set of universal human rights norms; and c) tensions over the nature of UN legitimacy.
Unsettled Futures: Precarity and the Project of Post-Apartheid in the Countryside
This research focuses on South Africa’s democratic period and in particular on the state ambition- which I call the post-apartheid project— to provide a better life for all its citizens.
Using a projectivized approach towards advanced studies in mental health research and developing graduateness among mental health students
Postgraduate students could benefit from joining a projectivized research project, as this could be helpful to focus research objectives early in their career.
Working title: “A dictionary and reference grammar for ǀXam – a lost Khoisan language of the !Ui sub-family, formerly spoken by Sān communities in the early Cape and the interior of South Africa.”
This account of the |Xam language—from the !Ui branch of the TUU family—is envisaged as a contribution that will help to restore part of South Africa’sintangible cultural heritage.
Working title:Elusive Spring
An award-winning journalist working for a British-owned newspaper, investigates a series of killings that appear to be politically-related; the more he does so, the more he and his associates are threatened, and he has to negotiate numerous attempts to undermine his credibility with the planting of fake news, large sums of money being transferred into his account, and the odd honey trap.
Writing on Water: experiments with historical forms through Daniel Morolong and Joseph Denfield's photographs of the East London coast
The project aims to unpack the multiple ways that photographs depicting the sea can be utilised for formal experimentation and disruption in history writing.
Yes, The World
My fourth novel will look at the lives of internally displaced people in India in what I hope is a formally original way – by marrying the extreme and self-conscious artifice of the pastoral mode to the density and ‘life-like’-ness of the realist novel.
2019
Adam Tas Corridor - unlocking the regeneration and transformation of Stellenbosch
This project applies the principles of massive small urban system change to the Adam Tas Corridor, an area in the city of Stellenbosch that comprises 400 ha along two intersecting transport routes.
Compensation Through Expropriation without Compensation? Land Reform and the Future of Redistributive Justice in South Africa
The decision by the South African Parliament in February 2018 to review the constitutional property clause possibly allowing for expropriation without compensation has fervently brought the land question back into public debate.
Ethnobotany-based Discovery of Valuable Chemical Compounds from African Plants 1700-
Africa is known for its rich biodiversity, particularly in higher plants.
Impacts, opportunities and challenges related to community sustainable livelihoods: A case study of the potamonautid conservation in Chimanimani, Eastern Highlands
Human population growth threatens the integrity of 0.
Mobility, Subjectivity and the Poetics of Space-making in the Western Indian Ocean Novels
Literary works by African writers of Asian descent construct the experiences of Asian communities in the western Indian Ocean (East Africa) as counter-narratives that seek to provide alternative and more nuanced accounts of Asian presence in the region.
Pragmatic Marker Borrowing in African Englishes: A Corpus-Based Study
There is extensive study of pragmatic marker borrowing from Asian languages by speakers of Asian Englishes, without a full exploration of pragmatic markers borrowed from African languages into African Englishes.
QBism, from Pragmatism to Phenomenology
QBism (pronounced cubism) is an interpretation of quantum mechanics that takes an agents actions and personal experiences as the central concerns of the theory.
Sexualities and (Dis)Abilities: (Re)Valuing Being Sexual Humans through Body Narratives
This study reads narratives that focus on the representations of (dis)abled bodies in sexually charged spaces in a bid to (re)value these bodies as they negotiate their humanity as well as their capacity to give and receive pleasure.
Spotlighting social inclusion: protection of Africa’s hunter gatherers’ communal land rights in the context of sustainable development goals (SDGs) implementation
Recently, there has been a renewed interest in discussions pertaining to ‘social inclusion’, largely resulting from adoption by the United Nations, of the UN 2030 Agenda encompassing the new Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), and a commitment by States to ‘leave no one behind’ during SDGs implantation.
Sustainable Transformation in Health, Education and Agriculture: How Africa Could Profit from Leapfrogging
African countries rank low in almost all development indicators.
The political economy of oral health in sub-Saharan Africa – uncovering the silent oral health crisis and exposing reasons for low public health priority
The focus of the Stellenbosch Annual Seminar on Constitutionalism in Africa (SASCA) 2019 will be on constitutionalism and the economy in Africa.
Transdemocracy
This book project is geared towards a new understanding of democracy, considering that so-called ‘democratic’ modern decisions negatively affect other peoples and thus become undemocratic.
Treatment of Hepatitis C virus in Oman: a multicenter study
Unlike Hepatitis B, there is no vaccine available for protection against Hepatitis C virus (HCV).