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2020
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.
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.
The story of Jabu Vilakazi – the Robin Hood of Soweto
The tension between personal experience, memory and historical fact is dynamic.
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.
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
“Renascent Africa: Cultural Nationalism, Decolonisation, the Nationalist Movement, and Trans-Continental collaborations: The example of Nigeria and South Africa.”
The idea of a renaissance suggests new consciousness, new attitudes, and values that undergird a new era of human development.
A History of the Nighttime in South Africa
This project is a book-length study of the history of the nighttime in South Africa during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.
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.
An Emerging Middle Class, Changing Mortuary Practices, and a New Funeral Economy in Northern Ghana
My current research project looks at recent dramatic changes to funerals among the Dagara of northwestern Ghana.
An Ordinary of Agony. The Social and Political Production of Superfluous People
The present research proposal aims to work on an anthropology of misfortune in Cameroon by describing and analyzing critically various forms of malevolence in media narrative in Cameroon.
Cancer treatment by manipulation of mitochondria
Cancer is the second leading cause of death globally, and to reduce this societal and economic burden new treatment options will be needed.
Coetzee, Kentridge, and the Computer: Automation and the Arts in South Africa
This study explores the reciprocal relationship between technology, politics, and the arts.
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.
Complexity and the Shift in Modern Science
Science has shifted in the last 120 years from a grounding in the Enlightenment ideas of formalism, determinacy, rationality, and stasis; to a new grounding in organicism, indeterminacy, contingent behavior, and evolutionary openness.
Decolonizing Africa: A Feminist Perspective
The main aim of this project is to develop a resource that moves legal education away from the conventional teaching which focuses on the black letter of the law and perpetuates a colonial, hierarchical, and decontextualized understanding.
Ethnobotany-based Discovery of Valuable Chemical Compounds from African Plants 1700-
Africa is known for its rich biodiversity, particularly in higher plants.
Experimental Protocols for First-person Accounts
The experimental works conducted during the past 15 years by Albertazzi and others have shown that phenomenal qualities subjectively perceived are not explicable by third person accounts.
From one to many: parallels between the origins of multicellularity and social behaviour
When a unit of description makes way for a second unit that consists of many members of the first, the notion of individuality, which initially referred to the ‘one’, now refers to the ‘many’.
Global Corporations, Accountability and International Law
This research would form part of a larger project which aims to produce a new conceptual understanding of the relationship between global corporations, states, state law and international law.
Glory (working title)
A multi-generational family drama told through different periods of Zimbabwe’s history.
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.
In/appropriate Personae: Contemporary Culture and the Politics of Appropriation
This project, a prospective monograph entitled In/appropriate Personae: Contemporary Cultural Production and the Politics of Appropriation, seeks to examine the growing awareness of the politics of representation and ethics of appropriation in contemporary culture, especially in relation to depictions of race, ethnicity, gender, and sexuality.
Interrogating Women’s Pathways into and Engagement with Political Power in Africa: A Comparative Study of Uganda and South Africa
Over the past few decades the presence of women in government also called descriptive representation has increased significantly because of a greater acceptance of quotas or reserve seats for women.
Law, Kinship, and the Formal Processes of Middle-Class Reproduction in Johannesburg, South Africa
This project investigates how legal and bureaucratic processes mediate inheritance in South Africa, as a window into the formal institutional dimensions of middle-class reproduction.
Migration Vulnerability and Access to Social Protection
The project concerns the availability, adequacy and access to social protection of three selected vulnerable migrant categories, i.
Mineral Wealth and Distributive Struggles on the Platinum Belt, South Africa
This project explores distributive struggles on the platinum belt in South Africa.
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.
Multi-class families, regional disparities and the emergence of middle classes in Africa
Drawing on my own fieldwork in Ghana as well as secondary sources on West Africa, but also other African countries, this project will explore two challenges in particular.
Patriotic Thrift: Savings Campaigns and Imperial British Identity in World War II and After
During the second world war, savings campaigns mobilized the people of the British empire and commonwealth, whether men, women, or children, to make public, individual investments in the war effort.
Political culture in Africa and post-communist Europe: towards explaining the logic of democratic underdevelopment
The strategic aim is to prepare a book for publication that describes and explains the vicissitudes of democracy and underdevelopment in Africa and Eastern Europe by method of comparison.
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.
Prediction and reversibility of insulin resistance and type 2 diabetes in black South African women
This project aim to study mechanisms underlying the very high occurrence of type 2 diabetes in black South African Women.
Producing the self through play online
The notion of playing with identity through physical appearance is particularly evident in society.
Protein deficiency, sarcopenia and cardiometabolic risk in an older urban black South African population: A cross-sectional feasibility study
South Africa (SA) is a low-middle income country (LMIC) with an ageing population and increasing prevalence of non-communicable diseases (NCD).
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.
Reading black middle-classness
For this project I am reading the burgeoning publication of essays that tackle black middle-classness and related aspects such as masculinities, femininities and race - indeed, intersections of these.
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 Anticipatory Perspective: What Next?
An anticipatory behavior is a behavior that ‘uses’ the future in its actual decision process.
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.
The Role of Laws, Policies, and Constitutional Rights in Advancing Gender Equality in Africa and Globally
In every country, women earn less than men; in all but five, women are less likely to have paid employment.
Towards a Politics of Singularity, or Beyond Identity Politics
Cutting across the boundaries of recent political theory, psychoanalysis, and philosophy, this project aims to show that the link between one human being and another, the social bond, consists of a traumatic encounter.
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).
Urban informality and middle-class aspirations in South Africa and Kenya
This project will take its point of departure in field work carried out by Bodil Folke Frederiksen and myself in two urban slum areas in South Africa and Kenya from the mid-1990s onwards.