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2019
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.
My Voice in Contemporary Art Music
I experience contemporary art music as a marriage of two musical cultures, Kiganda of the Baganda in Uganda and the western art music, which have shaped my musical performance and creativity for the last 40 years.
Neo-Abolitionism: The Case Against the Employer-Employee System
The controversial institution in the economic system throughout most of the world is not the market or private property but the employer-employee relationship.
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.
Planetary Prejudices: Race, Migration, and Technology in the New Global Order
Taking racism as the engine of capitalism, the study of racial capitalism offers a potent framework for understanding how racism structures modern life.
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.
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.
Predictive Computational Modelling of Intramyocardial Biomaterial Therapies towards Personalised Care for Myocardial Infarction
Myocardial infarction is one of the major causes of death globally.
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.
Re-Urbanism in Africa: Building Master-planned, Holistically-designed Satellite Cities
Large-scale property developers have recently embarked on a far-reaching strategy designed to reshape the existing spatial configuration of many cities in Africa.
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.
Religious Pluralism, Hybrid Identities, and the Postcolonial Religious Other
The focus of this research is religious pluralism and hybrid identities, particularly the construction of religious identities resulting from the African diaspora in Latin America and the Caribbean.
Retooling Development Pathways for Sustainability transition in Africa
We are continuously witnessing a confluence of socio-economic and social-ecological crisis manifested in the form of growing environmental degradation, persistent economic stagnation, increasing unemployement and growing disparities between and within countries.
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.
Short Stories of the World: Africa
This intended collection will include around 20 African short stories which will be translated into Icelandic.
South Africa and the emergence of international human rights
South Africa has played a leading role in the development of international human rights in very different and sometime diametrically opposing capacities.
Studies on the neurobiology of Alzheimer’s Disease
Prosperous populations live longer and old age carries an increased risk of dementia, a condition that is so far neither preventable nor curable.
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 Changing Place of the Corporation in International Law (Crossing Borders: Boundaries and Legal Authority in a Global Context)
This is a team project within the Crossing Borders theme.
The Negatives: A Novel
The Negatives is a conceptual novel about a photographer adrift in contemporary America who is forced to confront the ethics of her practice in a moment at which the very medium of her art has reached a state of volatility, mutability, and impermanence.
The new middle class in Africa in comparative perspective
Comparative perspectives from the global south can tell us much about the meteoric rise of the new middle class in Africa.
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 Politics of Education Reform in Middle-Income Countries
A growing scholarly consensus views high quality education as essential for sustained and equitable development.
The public sphere in African political thought
This research project aim is to contribute to the quest for a viable political philosophy for contemporary 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.
The temporalities of the Informality. The case of Benin-Nigeria Cross-border Fuel Smuggling
This research intends to analyze informality as a dimension of the social contract initiated by marginalized actors in response to the crisis of welfare state in Global South.
Theological ethics in the intersection of moral psychology and sociology
There is a long-standing debate in theological ethics (as well as in moral philosophy) between, on the one hand, theories that thinks of ethics as a form of decision theory that can overcome the contingency and arbitrariness of the human body (emotions and intuitions) and the socio-historical context, and, on the other hand, understandings of ethics that sees ethics as an embodied practice embedded in traditions, narratives, social practices, institutions, and concerned with moral formation.
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.
Transformative infrastructure for sustainable development in Africa
The infrastructure deficit in Africa is estimated to be $130-170 billion per year according to newly revised figures from the African Development Bank.
Transformative Infrastructure for Wellbeing Economy Development in Africa
The need for transformational change in national development efforts received unprecedented global consensus and support in 2015 resulting in the adoption of Agenda 2030 on Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and the signing of the Paris Agreement on Climate Change.
Translation of the Amharic Novel, Tobiya (1907) into English
African-language literatures have long and deep histories in their societies but take place within fenced literary spaces and typically are unavailable to world literature audiences.
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).
Untermenschen: Nietzsche on slavery – and what it means to be human
Does modern capitalism produce new forms of slavery?
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.
Women’s Associations in a Pastoralist Society in Transformation: Implications for Gender-Based Livelihood Improvement Policies in Benin
How does the organization of women transform gender relations and living standards of Fulani women in pastoralist communities of northern Benin?
2018
‘Maids’ and ‘Madams’ in Caribbean and South African Women’s Texts: Approximations of Feminist Solidarity?
This project engages with the possibility for solidarity between women across differences of race, class and sexuality as it is represented in a range of artistic forms (poetry, fiction and visual images) created by women from the Anglophone Caribbean and South Africa.
A Gene Revolution for Africa? Genetically Modified Crops and the Future of African Agriculture
Africa has emerged as the ‘final frontier’ in the global debate over the potential for Genetically Modified (GM) crops to alleviate poverty and hunger for smallholder farmers.
A history of Soweto’s Morris Isaacson High School
This project involves writing a history of one of Soweto’s most historically important secondary schools, Morris Isaacson High School.
A Social History of Democratic South African Told in Nine Lives
The book I am writing is a social history of the first two decades of South African democracy.
A Study of the Interplay of Taboo Subjects and Censorship in Determining the Limits of Humour/Insult in the Four Regions of Africa (North, South, West and East) and their Standup Jokes
Ancient humour arts exemplify how satire creates a sense of community from shared laughter.
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.
Access of Individuals to the African International Justice
At the continental level, various legal instruments adopted within the framework of the African Union ((AU) guarantee a certain number of human and peoples’ rights.