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2015
Deeply equitable development: water provision and biodiversity offsetting in South Africa
Fulfilling human rights to a clean and healthy environment while sustaining that environment for present and future generations of humans and non-humans is unambiguously worthwhile until a nation tries to achieve these goals simultaneously.
Democracy at the Crossroads? Normative, performance and legitimacy changes in contemporary democracies
Current crises can hardly be reduced to fiscal or economic phenomena; they seem to be much deeper, including the crisis of democracy per se.
Dichotomies in biology and the origin of life problem
Advances in synthetic biology have brought the long-standing ‘Origin of Life’ problem once again into prominence.
Dry Remains – The forensic examination of the moral content of a life
After fifty years of writing plays the forthcoming stay at STIAS will be used to make a second attempt at writing a novel.
Fiction and Reality of Mobility in Africa
The aim of this project is to explore how to marry ethnography and fiction in understanding the intricacies, nuance and complexity of African mobility and mobile Africans as frontier beings.
Future Bodies. Preventing organ trafficking - focusing on consequences and alternatives to organ shortage. A "Health in Transition" Theme Project 2014 -- 2016
Todays society is facing a series of new challenges.
Generating Knowledge: Conservation Sciences in South Africa’s National Parks
Over many years a considerable body of reliable scientific information has been generated in or about South Africa’s national parks, both by scientists employed by the organization and by outside researchers working with SANParks.
Global Human Rights Law and the Boundaries of Statehood
How does a transformation of the boundaries of statehood contribute to recovering the public and political nature of human rights law beyond the international legal order of territorial states?
HIV prevention and treatment: from policy to implementation
During my residency at STIAS I will be analyzing data and completing two scientific papers on HIV prevention, in particular the prevention of mother to child transmission (PMTCT) in sub-Saharan Africa, specifically in Kenya and Tanzania where I have ongoing projects and data is being collected.
How did Homo sapiens become Homo docens? On the evolution of social learning and teaching during the Paleolithic
The purpose of the project is to analyse why teaching has evolved only in the line leading to Homo sapiens.
In Pursuit of a Global Civics
We are the luckiest generation in human history.
Innovations: Key to structural change and prosperity
One of the key activities during my stay at STIAS is, together with Margareta Norell Bergendahl, to finalize the agenda of the up-coming Round Table meeting to be held at STIAS in February 2016.
It’s the Education, Stupid! Martin Luther’s unfinished business
At the beginning of the 21th century mankind is confronted with a number of global challenges.
Labour after Globalisation: new forms of organisation, new sources of power
In this book-length manuscript a puzzle will be dealt with, namely: the continuing decline of traditional trade unionism in advanced industrial countries, side by side with the growth of a new scholarship on global labour.
Learning a sign language: the challenge of modality
The study of sign languages contributes to our understanding of the human language faculty.
Making primary health care work for the poor
South Africa’s poor health outcomes have traditionally been attributed to poverty, unequal and ineffective spending and the high disease burden, but increasingly it is recognized that the public health system may also be contributing to such problems by delivering services that do not always conform to the stipulated standards.
Modernity and Modernism in Everyday Life – South Africa and Australia in the Twentieth Century
How do we live? How does our immediate infrastructure work, as house, and home?
Multifunctionality in managed grassland systems: Biodiversity and ecosystem services
Grassland systems have been in focus for a long time due to their ecological, socioeconomic and cultural importance.
Multilingual ecologies
Languages change and adapt as they exist in the minds and practices of multilinguals.
Mutual innovation capacity building
One of the key assignments for my stay at STIAS will be to work out a proposal for the final agenda and format for a Round Table (RT) meeting to be held at STIAS in February 2016 together with Pontus Braunerhjelm.
New approaches to anti-obesity therapeutics
Obesity is a medical condition defined as the excessive accumulation of fat that presents a risk to health.
On Social Meaning – Ernst Cassirer, Cornelius Castoriadis and Philosophical-Rhetorical Anthropology
In rhetorical theory, the question of how meaning is produced has traditionally been dealt with in terms of the intentions of the orator to influence her or his audience through speech.
Property – Obstacle or Key to Success for South Africa's Constitutional Democracy?
The inclusion of a clause protecting the deprivation of property in South Africa’s Constitution was controversial.
Revised edition of the book ‘Biochemical Oscillations and Cellular Rhythms’
A second edition of the book (entitled Biochemical Oscillations and Cellular Rhythms.
Science in South Africa – a synoptic history
The history of science and of scientific knowledge in South Africa is a growing field of interest but it remains relatively fragmented.
Sisters-in-Law: Scotland, South-Africa, and the Law of Property
Perched, inconveniently, at opposite ends of the globe, Scotland and South Africa are nonetheless ‘sisters-in-law’ in the sense that their systems of private law are uncannily close.
South African – Swedish effort on pre-hospital diagnostics of stroke and traumatic injuries
The purpose of the present project is the implementation of cost efficient, easy to use, diagnostic tools for stroke and trauma in the sub-Saharan Africa, where there are very limited resources in terms of medical personnel, hospitals and diagnostic devices.
South African – Swedish effort on pre-hospital diagnostics of stroke and traumatic injuries
Stroke care represents one of the major global unmet challenges of the global health care system.
South African Literature after the South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission
The role of literature is always to speak the truth to power (Nietzsche), and even if it cannot pretend to ameliorate material problems it appears to have impact on the way readers respond to reality and even perhaps behave in the real world.
Systems biology studies on plant desiccation tolerance for food security
Drought is the single greatest threat to world agriculture (FAO, 2008) and this is predicted to be increasingly exacerbated by the effects of global climate change.
The becoming of post-apartheid jurisprudence: Towards a minor jurisprudence of generosity
The project focuses on the interdisciplinary possibilities of law to constitute a discourse of transformation for post-apartheid South Africa.
The Effects of Race
The STIAS Effects of Race project project will address major gaps in our knowledge on race thinking and racialism.
The Impact of the Global Recession on Party Policy Preferences
The project continues and wants to bring to an end a project that has been started at STIAS in March 2013.
The malaise of the human condition: Social diagnostics, human evolution and theological discourse on the contingency of “sin”
Social diagnostics gained some currency in the South African context through the Diagnostic Report (2011) produced by the National Planning Commission.
The modern practice of intervention by invitation and its implications for the prohibition of the use of force
The research examines how the criteria for permissible military intervention by invitation as developed in international law doctrine are currently implemented by States, as well as how this impacts the prohibition of the use of force against the territorial integrity or political independence of States.
The nature of randomness and fundamental physical limits of secrecy
People have always been fascinated by randomness and intrigued by the fundamental question – is any outcome that appears random to us only so by virtue of our ignorance, or do there exist experiments whose outcome is inherently unpredictable to any observers, no matter how powerful or omniscient they might be?
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 the Human
To think of oneself primarily as a human being is to discount, in some way, the significance of the divisions we otherwise maintain between people.
The right to have rights: from migration to integration
One of the key tasks of my stay at STIAS will be to work on a project that addresses the normative and institutional basis of what Hannah Arendt calls the right to have rights.
The Theory and Practice of Social Transformation through the Arts (Being Human Today theme)
The world over and across time, the arts remain vitally important in fostering resilience and creating channels for reconciliation after conflict.
The transition to Green Economy: Africa’s leapfrogging opportunity
Africa is currently recognized as the fastest growing region in the world while a number of African countries are listed amongst the fastest growing economies in the region over the last decade.
The work and legacy of Sesotho writer Thomas Mofolo
Dunton and Krog are to edit for peer review and publication a set of papers delivered at a conference held in Lesotho on the work of Sesotho writer Thomas Mofolo.
Toward reducing infant mortality via smart and low-cost pulse oximetry
Sepsis kills over six million children in the developing world every year, many of those die at home and thus it is believed that a distributed, community‐based intervention would be most effective in reducing mortality.
Traditional leadership, democracy and development in the rural eastern Cape: a study of futures past
The problem of how to marry constitutional democracy with traditional authorities in the postcolonial context is not unique to South Africa and has been substantially explored in other contexts.
Ubuntu commercial nests in African indigenous markets in Nairobi: alternative business model for an emerging ‘African metropolis’
This research proposes that there is an ‘African metropolis’ that has been struggling for space and ascendancy in the City of Nairobi.
Understanding clinical quality of care in public primary health care facilities in South Africa
This study considers the reliability of a standardised client approach to inform policy makers about the quality of the clinical encounter at primary healthcare centres in the Western Cape and Eastern Cape metro areas.
Understanding Non-Contractual Obligations: Unjust Enrichment and the Law of Torts in Comparative and Historical Perspective
Whereas the European and South African law of contracts is today seen as normatively integrated part of the law of obligations that can be explained coherently on the basis of an overarching theory or a set of intellectually related principles, the rest of the law of obligations is apparently still understood as resulting from various causes that are normatively independent and difficult to explain.
Understanding Southern welfare – social policies in Brazil, India, China and South Africa
A mid-term research programme focusing on the ideational foundations of social policies beyond traditional Northern welfare will be fleshed out.