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2012
Islands of Work at the Rough Edge of the World; and: Archiving Culture and Nature: Harlan I. Smith’s Ethnographic Record of the Pacific Slope
Two book-length studies will be completed.
J.M. Coetzee: A Critical Biography
The Nobel laureate J.M. Coetzee is currently South Africa’s most resourceful and influential writer.
Lawmaking for Global Crisis Situations
More likely than not, the world will be facing a series of serious crises, connected to climate change, environmental disasters, natural catastrophes, shortage of all kinds of raw materials and sources of mineral energy, as well as new financial crises.
mHealth for Burn Diagnostic and Care in South Africa
In resource-poor settings, poor and marginalised populations have little access to burn injury emergency care, which is crucial to achieve the best possible clinical outcomes.
Mobile telephony and acute injury care
In the context of a collaboration between Stellenbosch University (SUN) and Karolinska Institutet (KI) the project aims to facilitate the diagnosis and care of burns patients in resource poor areas, building on modern information communication technologies like camera phones.
Moments of awakening: Apartheid and the making of a psychologist
Moments of Awakening, is the last project that will bring to completion the trilogy of life writing projects initiated in 2005.
Money from nothing: popular economies and indebtedness in South Africa
This project explores the over-indebtedness of South African consumers, set against the longer history of exploitation of South African black people by the forces of capitalism, and interrogates how these currently manifest themselves in an allegedly ‘neoliberal’ social order.
Piety versus Orthodoxy
This project explores the relationship between two very different types of theology that have characterized theological thinking in the Dutch Reformed Church in South Africa during the past 150 years: mystical theology reflecting on the assumptions underlying the personal piety of believers and confessionalism aimed at defending orthodox doctrine.
Private lands conservation in law and culture
Many ecological conservation goals require the use of legal means to channel land development and otherwise curtail unsound uses of privately owned lands.
Psychology, neoliberalism and changing subjectivities in Southern and Eastern Africa
Recent scholarship on the ‘postcolonial subject’ in Africa and beyond posits a link between neoliberalism and the evolution of new subjectivities.
Regime shifts in social-ecological systems: impacts on ecosystem services and implications for poverty alleviation
Regime shifts refer to large, persistent changes in the structure and function of complex systems such as intertwined social-ecological systems (SES).
Reparations for Victims of Apartheid
In spite of the increasing recognition in international law of the need for reparations for victims of serious human rights violations, the overwhelming majority of victims of Apartheid has not been compensated by the South African government and has not had access to legal avenues for the payment of such reparations.
Socioecononomic health inequalities: measurement, explanation and policy evaluation
The main purpose of this project is to identify and quantify the major causal mechanisms that drive the changes in socioeconomic health inequalities in Sweden.
Technological knowledge: A new structure
The purpose of this project is to help energize the innovation chain — the sequence of events that leads from scientific discovery, to technological progress and on to practical application.
The African Union’s emerging policy on unconstitutional changes of government
This research project is on unconstitutional changes of government (UCG).
The Karretjie People of the Karoo
This play centres on the harsh and challenging world of the itinerant group of sheep shearers in the Karoo who have now virtually disappeared.
The Pitfalls of Reductionism in Vaccine Research
Reductionism has been the predominant research strategy of molecular and structural biology in the 20th century.
The Politics of Judicial Review in South Africa
South Africa’s turn to liberal constitutionalism has attracted wide interest from comparative politics scholars.
The role of inhibitory and disinhibitory processes in the brain in the formation of esthetic judgement
Scholars in the humanities continue to resist the possible applications of the cognitive neurosciences to the understanding of cultural phenomena.
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 Truth About Crime
Many African postcolonies are haunted by the spectre of: the waning efficacy of law enforcement, the ambiguity of authority, and the apparent abandonment of subjects by the state.
Theory from the South
‘The Global South’ is rarely seen as a source of explanation for world historical events.
Tightening the Consistency of Quantum Bayesianism
Quantum Bayesianism is an effort to interpret all the probabilities arising in quantum theory (our most accurate physical theory to date, the one ultimately responsible for almost all of modern technology) in terms of the Bayesian conception of probability – that probabilities quantify subjective degrees of belief, rather than objective features of nature.
Towards a New Humanism
Why do we simply fail to establish a more human society in South Africa?
Uses of Literature
The value of literature is minimised in the functioning of society.
When solar current is cheap, plentiful and lasts all night through…what then of coming energy systems in Africa?
Organic photovoltaic systems now give more than 10% conversion efficiency from sunlight.
Xenophobia, Migrancy and Multiculturalism
Different causes and expressions of xenophobia are analysed by comparing three countries: South Africa, Germany and Canada.