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2013
Crime-focused Law and Colonial Sovereignty at the Cape of Good Hope, circa 1795-1810
Through quasi-inquisitorial procedures for identifying particular subjects as criminals, law at the Cape circa 1795-1810 fashioned hierarchies of criminals in the name of a particular sovereign’s justice.
Gender and Work in Early Modern Sweden: The case of lower civil servant households
It is often believed that in the past, women were confined to the home and supported by their husbands (the male breadwinner model).
How to survive the post growth century
The 20th century will be seen by historians as the century of growth.
Invertebrate motor control and inhibitory motoneurons
The miniaturisation of animal body cells is limited, and as a consequence, muscle and nerve cells are of similar diameters in large and small animals, to within an order of magnitude.
Novel approaches to stabilize atherosclerotic plaques
Cardiovascular disease has for many years been the leading cause of death in western societies and the incidence is now also rapidly increasing in many developing countries.
Questions of Literature
This project will involve the further exploration of a number of issues treated briefly in the 2004 study ‘The Singularity of Literature’, a short book that examined the distinctive character of literary uses of language, emphasizing the interrelated trinity of inventiveness, singularity and alterity.
The impact of a global economic crisis on political parties in competitive democracies
The research project deals with the impact of a severe global economic crisis on political parties in representative democracies.
The sense of beauty in the Nederlansliedjies of Cape Town’s sangkore
Nederlandsliedjiesare one of the two most important repertoires of creole songs which feature in the competitions of the Sangkore (also called: Nagtroepe, Hollandse Teams or Malay Choirs); they are also the repertoire that raises the strongest emotions among listeners and singers belonging to the group that was labelled coloured during apartheid.