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2014
Social-ecological systems and biosphere stewardship
Humanity interacts with the dynamics of the biosphere in new ways.
Some Thoughts and Reflections about Chemistry in Africa
There is little one can read about the history and the pioneers of chemistry in Africa and even that is mostly written by non-Africans.
Synthesis, Design, and Resource Optimization in Batch Chemical Plants
The project at STIAS will involve writing a research book aimed at closing a glaring scientific gap in the area of batch chemical process.
The Aesthetics of Violence: Art, Fiction and Film
One can identify an ‘aesthetics’ of violence in any representation of a violent act where form and textuality are essential elements to the experience to the representation.
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 Boxing Economy of the Eastern Cape
What is the link between the national formal economy on the one hand, and on the other, local community based economic and leisure cultures, which may have been largely self-sustaining but interminably precarious?
The Death Drill (a novel)
During the stay at STIAS research and writing on the historical novel ‘The Death Drill, inspired by and based on the sinking of the SS Mendi, a battle ship carrying members of the South African Native Labour Corps, will be continued.
The Effects of Race
The STIAS Effects of Race project project will address major gaps in our knowledge on race thinking and racialism.
The Foundations of Virology
At STIAS the text of an extended online edition (eBook) of the historic research work, ‘The Foundations of Medical and Veterinary Virology: Discoverers and Discoveries, Inventors and Inventions, Developers and Technology’will be written.
The indirect responsibility of States parties to Human Rights Treaties
Supervisory organs of international human rights treaties have recognised the extraterritorial effects of the prohibition of torture and recently also of the right to a fair trial.
The politics and poetics of old age: Drawing on Law and Literature to assess the (cultural) legitimacy of African Union norms on the rights of older persons
A critical investigation of post-apartheid life under a transformed legal, political and social order from the perspective of women.
The Porcupine is a Monkey
The aim of the work I would undertake while at Stellenbosch would be to complete the argument of a new book, whose title is The Porcupine is a Monkey.
The provision of ecosystem services and poverty alleviation
How society chooses to use land and allocate resources drives economic development and environmental quality.
The role of international law in the settlement of conflict: Apartheid South Africa, Namibia and Palestine
This study concerns the question whether the manner in which international law informed political consensus in South Africa and Namibia is of relevance to the settlement of the Israel/Palestine conflict.
The Scientific Method in Biology and Biomedicine
Philosophers tend to explain the success of the scientific enterprise in terms of a so-called scientific method believed to be typical of physics and chemistry.
The Scientific Method in Biology and Biomedicine (2)
Work on the book ‘The Scientific Method in Biology and Biomedicine’ will be continued.
The short history of evidence-based veterinary vaccinology
The project is concerned with vaccinology in the public eye.
The State of Mathematical Sciences Research and Research Training at South African Universities
This investigation follows up on two reports that appeared in 2008 and 2009.
Voices
After focusing almost exclusively on the instrumental medium for forty years, I will use the forthcoming STIAS artist residency as an opportunity to concentrate on the voice - and the choir in particular.
Water Governance in the Face of Global Change: From Understanding to Transforming
The sustainable management of global water resources is one of the most pressing environmental challenges of the 21st century.
Wine, Temperance and South African Connectivity c.1900 to the Present
Although wine is often conceived of within bounded national histories, it is a commodity that is best understood within a global framework – especially since the transformations necessitated by the spread of phylloxera in the later nineteenth century.
2013
101 Detectives
The main project I undertook at STIAS was a collection of short fictions called 101 Detectives.
A Critical Metals Analysis for South Africa
Modern technology makes use of nearly the entire periodic table of the elements.
African Constitutionalism: Comparative Perspectives
The general focus is on examining critical issues affecting the promotion of constitutionalism in Africa from a comparative perspective.
All too real: race thinking and thinking about race in post-1994 South Africa
The project is to work towards completion of a book under the working title of ‘All too real: race thinking and thinking about race in South Africa’.
Are Trout South African? Or: A Postcolonial Fish
There has been substantial attention paid in literary and postcolonial studies to issues of environment and ecology, and especially the environmental transformations which colonial and imperial histories have wrought upon the (post)colony.
Being South African: Moving Beyond Race
This project is about South African identity and the key question to be answered would be: what does it mean to be South African as opposed to a white, coloured, African or Indian South African?
Biological Chemistry: Metal transport by proteins
While DNA contains the genetic information, a large number of different proteins are the ‘workhorses’ in living organisms executing the orders given through the DNA code.
Conjuring majorities: Life, infrastructure, and relational politics in the urban South
A joint book manuscript ‘Conjuring majorities: life, infrastructure, and relational politics in the urban South’ (with AbdouMaliq Simone) will be completed.
Constitutional protection of economic and social rights in South Africa
This proposal forms part of a larger project on economic and social rights in general, and the right to housing in particular.
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.
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.
Ethnicity and Constitutionalism in Africa
The focus of the study for this year, under the broad theme of constitution-building in Africa will be the issue of separation of powers.
Flexibly-bounded Rationality and Marginalisation of Irrationality Theories for Decision Making
In this study the theory of flexibly-bounded rationality which is an extension to the theory of bounded rationality is studied.
Food security in sub-Saharan Africa from the production, human and environmental safety standpoints
Africa, once considered the breadbasket of the world, is now highly dependent on food imports.
From Limited Government to Social Justice and Development: Progressive Constitutionalism in the Era of Globalisation
While Southern countries have largely failed to bring about a new international economic order, they have been more successful in shaping the international agenda in the field of human rights, from the Convention for the Elimination of all Forms of Racial Discrimination to the Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights and its recent Protocol.
Garment of Destiny
Work on a new single-author book with a working title of Garment of Destiny will be started.
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).
Genres of Critique
This project seeks to open and explore a liminal space for critique between aesthetics and politics.
Global Urbanization, Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services – Challenges and Opportunities
This project has the aim to complete and finalize a large global initiative in collaboration with the Secretariat of the Convention of Biological Diversity (SCBD).
Historical Novel - Research and Writing
While at STIAS a novel will be researched and written.
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.
Human skin pigmentation: Further studies of its evolution, biological consequences, and social meaning
Recent research on the topic explored the effects of skin pigmentation on human health and social well-being, and upcoming projects will focus on these aims.
Infectious causes of human cancers: results and perspectives
During the past decades it became evident that at least 21% of the global cancer incidence is linked to viral, bacterial and parasitic infections.
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.
Is there a future for the project of a clinical anthropology (‘patho-analysis of existence’)
Is it still possible and meaningful, as traditional psychoanalytic theory implies, to understand the relation between psychopathology and (philosophical) anthropology in a positive and structural way?
Legal Traditions and the New Logics
Over the last three centuries western legal thinking has been driven by notions of nation-states, national legal systems and classical forms of logic.
Making up people
Work on the ways in which classifications of people affect the people classified, in particular the ways that individuals think of themselves, and how this affects their actions, and open up or close off possible futures will be continued.