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2018
The Power of Injury: Memory, Decolonization, and the Challenges of Modernity in Africa
This book examines the political and social effects of Africa’s prioritization of the experience of colonization in its response to the world, and analyzes the role of Nelson Mandela’s notion of forgiveness in Africa’s inevitable path to modernity.
The Responsive University
There is a fairly substantial literature on the manner and extent to which universities engage with society.
The Responsive University
This project falls under the STIAS longer term theme project University and Society, sub-theme: Understanding the Contemporary University(From the concept note): Universities worldwide are relentlessly focused on attaining ‘excellence’.
The Wind Scatters
This envisaged collection will comprise of short stories set in different periods over a century, beginning from the 1920s to the 2020s.
The Zulus of New York/The Madonna of Excelsior Script
In 1880 William Leonard Hunt, known as The Great Farini after his trapeze act with a troupe called The Flying Farinis, a well-known Canadian funambulist and impresario, imported a group of Zulus to England and later to the United States to perform as part of the human curiosities or freak shows in his popular circus.
Three Paths to Constitutionalism
There are three paths to constitutionalism in the modern world.
Traditional Authorities and Decentralisation in Southern Africa
The proposed research project is a study of the recent resurgence of traditional authorities in southern Africa.
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.
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.
“ELECTIONS, DEMOCRACY AND CONSTITUTIONALISM IN AFRICA”
The Stellenbosch Annual Seminars on Constitutionalism in Africa (SASCA) programme, African constitutionalism: comparative perspectives, falls under the STIAS project theme The future of democracy which started in September 2013.
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.
Aid Effectiveness and Policy Coherence for Development: Donor Policies and Practices in Comparative Perspective
This research project explores the extent to which donor countries’ aid and non-aid policies work together in the interests of development, as well as the extent to which donors work with each other and recipient governments.
Assessing the potential impact of agriculture on the biogeochemistry of a pristine wetland, the Okavango Delta
The Okavango Delta, Botswana is a World Heritage Site and an international treasure.
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.
Comparative regionalism: The political economy of regional security organizations
After the end of the Cold War a respacing of international politics has begun – a new world order is emerging that is increasingly described as multipolar.
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.
Contemporary law: the dialectic of unity and plurality
The simultaneous unity and plurality of law was a central topic for Hans Kelsen.
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.
Deep learning network for South African birdsong and its wider implications on the concept of intelligence
We develop an operational convolutional neural network, that distinguishes 170 different South African birdsongs.
Developing an International Prognostic Scoring System for Thalassemia: A New Tool for Revisiting Classification of Thalassemia
Β-thalassemia is classified into three phenotypes, depending on the severity of symptoms: 1) thalassemia major (TM); 2) thalassemia Intermedia (TI); 3) β trait or thalassemia minor (Tm).
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.
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.
Dying to forget: History, memory and the intergenerational transfer of trauma in South Africa
THIS project is about the discipline of history and the intergenerational transfer of trauma in South Africa.
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).
Faith and Fabric (The status of ‘secular modernity’ in an African context)
In 2005/2006 the Wissenschaftskolleg in Berlin hosted an inter-disciplinary research project on secular modernity in which world-renowned Fellows like Hans Joas (German sociologist at the Freiburh Institute for Advanced Studies (FRIAS), professor of the University of Chicago), who led the project, Charles Taylor (Canadian philosopher) and Jose Casanova (sociologist of religion from New York), amongst others, studied the nature of secularisation and the presence and role or religion in different so-called modern societies.
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.
Impact of sustainable intensification of food production on environment and human well-being
Africa, once considered the breadbasket of the world, is now strongly affected by problems with food insecurity and malnutrition.
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.
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.
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.