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2017
“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.
3D Print a House for Development (3D - H - 4D): Prototyping Climate Change Adaptation in African Urban Planning
The news that a Chinese company has successfully 3D printed ten houses in 24 hours rapidly, cheaply and with a bare-bones workforce offers a window into the future for sustainable development in Africa’s urban planning.
Addressing the Need for a Rapid Diagnostic for Childhood Tuberculosis
TB rates are at unprecedented high levels in sub Saharan Africa [2].
African Leapfrogging Index to Sustainability (ALIS)
Centre for Complex Systems in Transition of Stellenbosch University and the International Institute for Industrial Environmental Economics of Lund University are currently developing a regional project on Distributed Renewable Economy for Africa’s Transformation.
Assessment of social-economic impacts of invasive cactus (Opuntia engelmannii) to rural livelihoods and their environment in the Drylands of Kenya
Invasive alien plant species are one of the major drivers of global ecosystem change and the most serious threats to ecological, economic and social well-being.
Asymmetric (Trans)Constitutionalism beyond Eurocentrism and Post-Colonialism
The research deals with the asymmetrical political relations in the world society and their impact on transconstitutional entanglements between legal orders.
Axis and Revolution
The themes of the collection Axis and Revolution, my fourth book of poetry, range from poetry as autobiography to the contemporary legacy of slavery, a topic that has engaged my critical as well as creative writing.
Bridging between the Physical and Biological Worlds
Living and non-living systems are strikingly different.
Cafe de Move On Blues
In Cafe de Move On Blues I plan to look at people like me, both English and Afrikaans whites, across the country, in an attempt to say who they are (and who they think they are) and how they react to life in the new South Africa.
Climate Change and the Emerging Disease Crisis: An Existential Threat to Technological Humanity
The emerging infectious disease (EID) crisis encompasses all pathogens affecting humans and the species upon which we depend for survival and socio-economic development.
Comparative computational study of thrombosis in cerebral and abdominal aortic Aneurysms
Thrombosis is closely linked to aneurysm evolution.
Comparative Rebel Governance in Uganda: The influence of rebel objectives on rebel government structure — comparing take‐over to secession
Rebel groups often create governments when they control territory during civil war.
Constitution-building in Africa: Corruption and constitutionalism in Africa – Revisiting control measures and strategies
The focus of the 2017 seminar under this project is on the theme, Corruption and constitutionalism in Africa: Revisiting control measures and strategies.
Controlling Landscapes and Bodies
During my time at STIAS I will collaborate with Stellenbosch and Cape Town faculty in both the humanities and the sciences to look at the positioning and chronology of Egyptian rock art in the Eastern Sahara in order to establish whether the animal or human images shown reflect changes in the environment and how it was manipulated, and ways in which this can be proven.
Creating a Liberal British Empire: Histories and Legacies
This book will address the question of how liberal society attempts to reconcile empire to its values and principles.
Devil With Blue Eyes
Devil With Blue Eyes is a novel of dislocation that seeks to explore and expose the rise of xenophobia in South Africa.
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.
Faith and Fabric
Relations between faith and the fabric – whether political, social, economic, cultural or moral – of communities, societies and the global world are increasingly studied in many disciplines, not primarily because of the popular claim that religion is back and the fact that the so-called secularization theory is today rejected by many, but rather since many scholars increasingly recognize the public role of faith, not in the sense of religious convictions, communities and traditions, but in the sense of basic axioms and values, core beliefs and commitments (Taylor), cardinal convictions (Huber), notions of the sacred (Joas), in short, the faith of the faithless (Critchley).
Health in All policies: Healthy housing policies to address the risk and burden of infectious and non-communicable diseases
Urbanization is restructuring the nature of cities, particularly in South Africa (SA) and Africa, where informality is on the rise.
Hiraeth (a novel)
The creative project, a novel with the working title ‘Hiraeth’, is conceived of as a mythopeoic journey story undertaken by nine young misfits from different parts of the world, attending a private boarding school in Kenya, who are haunted by a common dream and the persistent summons of a honey-guide.
Interdisciplinary Approaches to Meeting Long Term Challenges
Professor Ian Goldin is the Director of the Oxford Martin School and Professor of Globalisation and Development at the University of Oxford.
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.
Jurisdictional Rivalries between Company and State
This contribution to the research theme Crossing Borders, centres on two questions posed explicitly by the subtheme, Boundaries and Legal Authority in a Global Context.
Law and World
The terms globe and world are used interchangeably in the contemporary discussion about legal globalizations.
Life in the transients
This project will explore a new theory of adaptation that I have termed Life in the Transients (LIT).
Mad Men: A South African Media History The aspirational syntax of men’s magazines: A South African media history, 1910 to the present
Men’s magazines had their official start in South Africa in 1910 with the inception of publications aimed at asserting the continued role of the Empire in establishing a benchmark of good taste.
Nietzsche and the alleged European nature of nihilism
I will elaborate Nietzsche’s idea of the European character of nihilism in discussion with philosophers from other cultures, or at least from other parts of the world (including Brazil and South Africa), who all are interested and prepared to cooperate.
On the charge accumulation and ion exchange in PEDOT electrodes
Supercapacitors are devices that reside on the border between capacitor technology and battery systems and are utilized in transportation and infrastructure applications.
Participatory Realism
Recently Cabello (arXiv:1509.04711) introduced a taxonomy of quantum interpretations with regard to what they attempt to say of reality.
Prevalence of phytoparasitic nematodes and damage levels on vegetable crops in the southwest Ethiopia: An approach towards development of a sustainable nematode management
Various vegetable crops are grown in the southwest part of Ethiopia.
Removal of pollutants from drinking water by clay minerals using metal oxide nanoparticles
Contamination of drinking water with chemical and biological pollutants is a serious problem of the present century.
Reservoir computing of (African) bird song
South Africa is one of the top destinations in the world for bird watching.
Retrospective and Prospective Reflections on Higher Education in Africa
The paper begins with a historical background attempting to provide an African wide perspective unifying the often fragmented contributions of North Africa, South Africa and the rest of the continent.
Scaling the drivers and consequences of biodiversity change
Biological diversity is intrinsically scale-dependent, and understanding its scaling properties may help us better manage and conserve it.
Self, Autonomy, Authority and Law: The Challenge of ‘Leaky Bodies’
The unity, integrity, health and prospects of collectives such as states, nations and societies are often imagined in terms of the individual human body.
States of Terror: History, Theory, Literature
After 9/11 The USA declared war on an emotion.
Symbolic Classification
The project enquires into the role of symbolic classification in the construction and reproduction of inequality.
Systematic generation of an update of the ongoing studies on the new BTK inhibitors
BTK is a cytoplasmic protein-tyrosine kinase, whose corresponding gene was isolated in the early 1990s.
Texts/Forms and Transformations: A Poetics of the African Imagination
African narratives in both their traditional and contemporary phases apparently extend or re-stage tendencies previously encoded in folklore.
The African Resistance Movement: A Cultural History
This project (and the book that will follow) is a cultural history of the ARM, the African Resistance Movement, which despite the elevation of its name, was a group of no more than fifty mainly liberal , anti - communist idealists who formed an underground movement in South Africa in 1960 and embarked on a campaign of sabotage aimed at government installations (pylons and railway lines).
The challenges and options in relation to water security for groundwater-dependent urban settlements located in fragile regions of Kenya
Many towns in Kenyas arid and semi-arid lands (and to a lesser extent, sub-humid zones) rely largely or exclusively on groundwater for public and private water supply.
The Free Peoples Festivals: exploring cross-border relationships and interactions in the fostering of alternative music communities in South Africa
This project forms part of a five year research project that is investigating the role that alternative music communities in South Africa played to imagine and create a social order different from the system of apartheid.
The Functional Structure of Brain Asymmetries: A Unified Theory
Hemispheric asymmetries play an important role in almost all cognitive functions.
The Performance of Democracies (2)
Democracy as an overall model for how societies should be governed must be seen as a remarkable success.
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 scorpion chemosensory organs (project 1) & Biological contexts of pain perception and suffering in experimental animals (project 2)
1. The scorpion chemosensory organs have a number of unusual properties, making them an intriguing research object for neurobiologists.
Ubuntu: a Meta-norm for the West?
Ubuntu is an Nguni word that covers a broad semantic field to signify a sharing that connects humans and typifies all right thinking.
Unwilling Umma: Histories of Exile and Islam Across the Indian Ocean
This project is an exploration of the life and memories associated with three key saints of the local Capetonian scene, and most notably Tuan Guru, set against a larger story of forced labour and exile in the Indian Ocean from the eighteenth to the twentieth centuries.