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2020
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.
Xnau-Xnau⁀GE@MP
The core of our investigation will be generative, site-based investigation into our music improvisation, both as practice and as reflexive engagement.
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
'How Disposed Of': Liberated Africans and the Waiting Space of Freedom 1807-1930
This project is the fruition of twenty-seven years of research on the significance of the Liberated Africans, those rescued from the holds of slave ships and dhows in the Indian and Atlantic Oceans, the Mediterranean and in the Caribbean between 1808 and 1888, with an aftermath that continued into the 1930s.
“Dementia: a growing problem in South Africa and the world”
Prosperous people live longer and old age carries a high risk of dementia, a condition that is so far neither preventable nor curable.
“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.
10 year follow-up study of cardiac and liver iron using T2*MRI in a single cohort of thalassaemia major patients.
Patients with thalassemia major require regular blood transfusions from 6-12 months of age to stay alive.
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.
A Place to Call Home: A comparative study of the urban housing boom in Luanda and Nairobi
Despite their very different political and economic contexts, both Luanda and Nairobi have experienced housing booms and urban property bubbles over the last fifteen years.
A transdisciplinary analysis of the role of social identity on performance under social stratification and stigmatisation
The emergent fields of stratification economics and identity economics offer new theoretical insights for explaining economic inequality, specifically the unique role that intersectionality (the existence of multiple social identities) might play.
Advancing Gender Equality in Africa and Globally: Strengthening Health and Economic Outcomes by Learning What Works at Scale
Around the world, gender inequality continues to shape individual opportunities, families, and societies.
African Composition Techniques
My project is to write a Composition Treatise which draws largely on my six-volume set of nearly 100 piano pieces, Afrikosmos.
African International Courts
In the course of the last decades, several international courts have been established, either within the African Union [AU], or within the Regional Economic Communities [RECs], and even within some smaller sub- regional organizations.
After the Eruption: Reflections on Higher Education in South Africa
At this critical historical conjuncture in South Africa, at the very precipice of tumultuous social change, multiple forces converge onto the stage of higher education in South Africa.
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.
Archaeology of a Hungry Mind
Why and how did we (Homo sapiens) evolve into a species that is dependent on its ‘brains’ rather than its ‘brawn’ for our survival and successful spread across the globe?
Black Swans in Public Administration: Rare Organizational Failure with Severe Consequences
The subject of the project is organizational failure in public administration with severe consequences for the physical integrity of humans.
Bodies and/as Texts: Representing queer on screen in contemporary Africa
The body is an assemblage of not only the physical and the material.
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.
Complexity beyond the real; the integration of the unknown and the unknowable into science
Complexity theory (Boulton et al, 2015) provides an important and potent challenge to the continuing dominance of worldviews informed by classical science.
Considering Zimbabwe’s 2017 Coup: Causes, Consequences, Concepts
A faction of Zimbabwe’s ruling party and many soldiers removed the country’s 93 year-old president from power over party and polity during a few weeks of November 2017.
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.
Digital Capitalism
This project is about digital capitalism, and more specifically, the emergence of a new gig economy associated with the rise of new platform business models such as Uber, Upwork, TaskRabbit, Helpling, and others.
Digital State Capitalism: African Smart Cities and a Game-Theoretic Perspective on Global Data Governance in Flux
The increasing digitalisation of international trade deepens globalisation, and data flows play a key role in this transformation.
Disability and reproduction in Africa: A multi-methods invest igation to identify, describe and determine the sexual, reproductive and maternal healthcare needs and challenges of women with disability in Ghana
Persons with disabilities (PWDs) constitute 15% of the worlds population.
DOHaD and SDGs: Moving towards Early Implementation
The Developmental Origins of Health and Disease & Sustainable Development Goals: Moving Towards Early ImplementationThe Developmental Origins of Health and Disease (DOHaD) paradigm provides us with a new and exciting way to think about causation of illness while at the same time providing us with both personal and population-level instruments for avoiding harm and promoting health.
Everyday Authoritarianism: Urban Life and Politics in Luanda, Angola
This project poses the question of how authoritarian politics systems institutionalise themselves through everyday life.
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 Blackness, Locating ‘Africanness’: Call-and-Response in the (literary) works of Toni Morrison and Zoë Wicomb, NoViolet Bulawayo, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie and Taiye Selasi
This project offers a fresh, comparative, transatlantic and transnational analysis of leading African-American author, Toni Morrison’s, work on blackness through the diasporic lens of contemporary female writers of the African diaspora, Zoë Wicomb, NoViolet Bulawayo, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, and Taiye Selasi.
Is It Autonomy All the Way Down? The Search for a QBist Metaphysic
The philosopher William James once wrote, Like the old woman who described the world as resting on a rock, and then explained that rock to be supported by another rock, and finally said it was ‘rocks all the way down,’ he who believes this to be a radically moral universe must hold the moral order to rest either on an absolute and ultimate should or on a series of shoulds ‘all the way down’.
Is the European Union a Role Model for Africa? - Lessons from 60 Years of European Integration for Africa
The project deals with the lessons of European integration for African attempts to regionally integrate further.
Jazz Life
This is a book in progress replete with personal incident and an appreciation of South African jazz history and culture, musicians and the music played.
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.
Luanda is not Paris: a situated epistemology of Southern Urbanism Theory
This project for a book titled In the skin of the city: Luanda, or the dialectics of spatial transformation examines the process of historic formation and transformation of Luanda, the capital city of Angola.
Making a Difference: How Anthropology Constructed South Africa’s colony, Namibia.
Colonialism was not only racist and exploitative, it was also ridiculous.
Memorializing Struggle: Dynamics of Memory, Space and Power in Post-Liberation Africa
In post-liberation societies, memorialization and commemoration can occur at a grand, national scale, often being linked to heroic freedom fighters or critical revolutionary turning points.
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.