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Since the 2000s, the surveillance and coercion of individuals living in or travelling through the Sahara have been encouraged and implemented by international, European and African actors, often in blatant violation of international law.
Our project joins sociolinguistics, philosophy of science, and research ethics in an extensive and close collaboration to explore the conditions of integrity in politically engaged scholarship.
Climate change is causing extreme weather events, including droughts, floods, heat waves, and heat stress, which are threatening sectors such as food security, access to drinking water, and public health.
The resurgence of race in genomic research has renewed longstanding debates about the biological basis of human difference, raising urgent ethical questions about how science reanimates and recodes the meaning of race.
The 2030 agenda for sustainable development by the United Nations emphasizes the need to protect the planet from degradation…… (UN, 2015).
With the award of the 2017 Nobel Prize in Chemistry to three pioneers in cryogenic electron microscopy, the world was awakened to the cutting-edge technology of 'cryo-EM'.
This project explores how children living in conflict zones respond to violence, displacement, and systemic injustice—not only as victims, but as active agents of survival and resistance.
The project aims at deconstructing the temporal dimensions of the Russian foreign policy discourse.
The proposed monograph aims explore the following constructs, ‘alliances’, ‘coalitions’, ‘umbrella groups’ and ‘proxy’s’ in the context of the law of conflict classification.
South African law increasingly relies on contracts to resolve disputes between family members and to address new practices like surrogacy and open adoptions within the family environment.
My project explores the aesthetics, ethics and politics of literary witnessing in five auto/biographical texts from the S-21 detention centre in Cambodia in relation to the politics of representation and the mediation of victims’ voices in witness literature from the cultural margins.
Critical raw materials (CRMs) are increasingly vital to contemporary economies and societies.
Transitions to adulthood are life-making projects—efforts to construct meaning and possibility even amid uncertainty.
This project departs from the emergence of cinema in early 20th century South Africa, and its role in constituting a new public sphere around this form of leisure.
Project description to be confirmed
Biomass is the primary energy source for cooking and heating in many developing countries, including Ghana, where nearly 70% of the population rely on fuelwood, charcoal, animal droppings, and agricultural waste.
This project explores how ethnicity shapes governance and inequality in Kenya.
This research proposal focuses on the regulation of euthanasia and physician-assisted suicide (PAS), adopting an interdisciplinary approach that combines legal—i.e., constitutional and criminal—analysis with empirical insights from the field of public governance and regulatory governance.
Infectious disease threats to individual and public health are numerous, varied and frequently unexpected.
This project aims to develop a comprehensive framework for characterizing traditional clay and mud-based structures in African archaeological contexts.
With the expansion of reproductive technologies, the making of a baby has become an enterprise with a market for any, and all, related services.
A primary challenge to 21st century global climate predictability is understanding the ocean’s role as a heat and carbon sink or source to the atmosphere.
We will use different approaches to clarify what initiates an autoimmune disease and to devise better treatment.
From January 2022 to August 2024, a total of 45,652 cases and 1492 deaths were reported in 12 African countries.
We study the chemical biology, physiology, and therapeutic effects of nitric oxide (NO) and related reactive nitrogen oxides.
The unfolding appreciation of the effects of the parthenogenetic production of female eggs from laying workers of Cape honey bee workers on social relationships in colonies has proved to be a rich source of ideas regarding the interplay between individual fitness and colony fitness.
The Centre for Epidemiology Research and Innovation collects high-precision and timely data on emerging health threats by carrying out a world-class genomic surveillance effort.
South Africa has long been a leader in scientific research and innovation on the African continent.
This project builds on scholarship about landscape and memory in Cape Town by looking at how “nature” historically structured the material making of the cityscape, and the racially-heterogenous socio-natural commons that emerged in the city during the 20th century.
The project proposes to study and bring attention to contemporary moral economies in African Muslim societies that are overlooked.
Mental illness leads to great suffering for affected individuals and is one of societies’ largest challenges.
Positioned as fathers of Pan-Africanism on the continent, and hailed as heroes in the 21st century Nyerere and Nkrumah are two of the most highly regarded leaders of the independence era.
My research lies within the Life Sciences, and is specialized around questions related to developmental biology, and how gene expression is regulated in normal and diseased contexts.
Australia is witnessing a surge of public works by Indigenous creatives across the arts that broadcast the message of ‘ever present’ and ‘always will be’.
This project is essentially a plan to write a book on the interrelationships between science, technology and agriculture in India, with specific reference to the challenges of sustainable development and climate change.
The title of Rachel Carson's book "Silent Spring" equates life with sound, death with silence.
This research project returns to and reconsiders the many representations of prison experience by political prisoners under apartheid, comparing them to new memoirs published since 2000.
This project explores the growing synergies between gardening and spirituality.
West African Pidgin (Pidgin) is a group of related, mutually intelligible varieties that emerged from contact between English and African languages in coastal West Africa.
This story of organised around and imaginary organised dog killing in a South African township during the period of resistance to apartheid oppression.
The Zimbabwean political landscape has been toxic and polarised since the formative years of African nationalist movements in the early 1950s.
Northwest Africa has recently been the site of a large variety of political movements.
Current research explores land, home, and community in South Africa through a sociological lens.
This monograph project intervenes in the timely debate around the ‘decolonisation’ of trauma theory by providing a revised understanding of the theory’s Euro-American foundations primarily dominated by Freudian psychoanalysis and northern scholarship on the issue of difference.
Technology providers from around the world are currently marketing digital water meters to households or communities with the promise of using water more efficiently and distributing it more fairly in the face of increasingly scarce drinking water resources and simultaneous population growth.
Computational Biology offers a valuable complement to complex experimental approaches to study infectious diseases like HIV and tuberculosis.
Across the world cabinet ministers are significant political players and yet they are grossly under researched, in part because of a dearth of consistent and comparable data.
Insects are by far the most successful and diverse group of animals on the planet.
The project identifies three main epochs that demonstrate Zambia’s shifting perceptions of China the state, Chinese individuals and Zambia-China relations - from an era of intersecting solidarity to economic and political necessity.
Globally, a moral imperative exists to ensure that all children are provided with the resources and environment necessary to enable them to reach their individual potential, and the call for investment to improve the health of children is almost universal.
This project brings together chapters written by 17 women former guerrillas from uMkhonto we Sizwe, the African National Congress military wing and the Azanian Peoples Liberation Army (APLA) and the Azanian National Liberation Army, the military wing of the Azanian Peoples Organisation (AZAPO).
The Nigeria-Biafra War of 1967-1970 occasioned the Igbo pogrom and the lingering memory of starvation as a weapon of war.
A book entitled Evolutionary Perspectives on Pregnancy(with Columbia University Press) will be completed and published.
As former President of Stockholm University, stepping down on Jan 31 2025, my first concern will be to write a brief chapter to a new History of the University, to be published for its 150 year anniversary in 2028, where I have been asked to contribute with a brief summary of my experiences from 12 years of presidency.
This novel will blend a sequence of narratives, set at various turning points in the history of the British Virgin Islands from 1807 To present day, concerned with the themes of body and work, individual and collective identity, and the intersections of trauma and Virgin Islander identity.
The project investigated organized crime around the Atlantic seaboard from an unusual perspective – by tracing the migration of RussoPolish criminals to North and South America and to South Africa between 1881 (after the assassination of Tsar Alexander II) and 1914.
A supernova explosion marks the spectacular end in the life of a massive star.
The nature of the tackle in rugby exposes players to high risk of injury - specifically head injuries and concussions.
In dealing with diversity and difference, many countries have moved from the relatively passive idea of non-discrimination to a more pro-active strategy of affirmative action (AA).
Household food insecurity in rural Southern Africa has its roots in policies that supported large scale commercial farming by white settlers and the creation of spatially separate ‘reserves’ for black households.
The project intends to develop sustainable construction materials from waste like recycled plastics and natural fibers, reducing negative environmental impacts and promoting resource efficiency.
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’.
In recent years, particularly in the emerging field of biosemiotics, it has been proposed that semiotics - the study of signification processes - could bring a paradigmatic shift in our scientific conception of life, and consequently in scientific biology in general and beyond.
The use of wastewater epidemiology approach has been on the rise recently due to its cost effectiveness and ability to identify emerging chemicals such as pesticides from wastewater.
Humankind is facing a new age, i.
Archives of the Ethical: Market Exchange, Ethical Relations, and Sensory Politics in the Urban South brings together in comparative perspective, historically situated ethnographic insights of urban market practices in Cape Town, Accra, and Mumbai.
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.
The place of fans in the sustenance of superstar visibility and the accompanying digital narratives of fandom have been understudied in Nigerian hip-hop.
The Agricultural Green Revolution of the 20th century, which resulted from plant breeding and increased fertilizer use, led to food sufficiency and security in many parts of the world.
The annual increase in the global population worldwide puts pressure on the food systems to avail enough food for all global citizens.
Blind or visually impaired people (BVIP) are increasingly encountering difficulties in their daily lives.
Avian malaria and flaviviruses are widely distributed vector-transmitted infections that can affect the fitness of birds and the later can also cause significant human disease.
South African (family) lawyers continue to focus on the private maintenance obligation as the primary instrument for alleviating poverty.
A story set in contemporary Sierra Leone about a group of politicians who view themselves as leading a prosperous and progressive country versus those of the masses, the citizens, whose experiences differ.
Most publications by philosophers, scientists and other scholars from Africa and the Third World have so far been intended for an external audience and particularly a Western audience.
The question of whether there are laws in ecology is important.
Injuries are one of the leading causes of death and disability in low- and middle-income countries, especially in sub-Saharan Africa.
Mental disorders such as Schizophrenia affect up to 5 million in Africa and epilepsy is the most widespread neurological disorder on the continent.
With this project I aim to outline the unwritten history of civil aviation in East Africa.
X-ray imaging is a workhorse in the clinic due to its speed, low cost and relative simplicity.
This project will involve collaboration with Jannie Hofmeyr (SU) on, amongst others the principles of supply and demand as driving force of metabolic activity, and incorporating them: 1) into existing experimental data sets to explore adaptive behavior amongst bacteria as a basis for the maintenance of microbial community function in environmental processes, and 2) a state-of-science review related to microbiological considerations for repository engineering and long-term safety of deep geological repositories of nuclear waste, as well as formulating recommendations for the way forward to predict the potential impact of microbial activity on the stability of these repositories.
Processing food extensively by thermal and nonthermal techniques is a unique and universal human practice.
Over the past 25 years or so, large corporations have been under increasing pressure both to improve their performance on environment, social and governance (ESG) issues, and to report better on what they have (or haven’t) done.
The proposed study is a book length project on the ideologies that underpin discourses of resistance to the militarisation of relations between African countries and Western imperialists.
The proposed project seeks to explore how retraction and recantation take shape in experimental writing of the 20th and 21st Century.
Why do some individuals or societies transcend a divisive past and why do some remain prisoners of their own past?
A meson fluctuation about a two-flavored chiral soliton model is studied.
This long-term project, with it’s focus on affect, particularly melancholy, shame and rage, is located in a feminist decolonial framework and is aimed at disrupting gender, raced and other entangled binaries and associated violences.
The domestication of many animal species was a key element in the development of human societies.
The advent of the electronic area has opened new ways to conceptualise and to organise knowledge.
Dogon Muslims and pagan saints are key figures emblematic of the dramatic social transformations Mali has witnessed since the mid-20th century.
This project will be a work of creative non-fiction, exploring issues of identity, boundaries, and vision that have been of concern for many years to a scholar who has been both literary critic and biographer.
The discipline of Bioinformatics has emerged in the field of molecular and cell biology to deal with the huge amounts of information generated first by genomic and more recently by transcriptomic, proteomic, and metabolomic studies.
During the past decade, there has been a lot of interest among evolutionary biologists in ecological niche-based) speciation processes, under the scientific umbrella of The ecological theory of adaptive radiations.
Populations fluctuate but seem generally stable in the long run.
This project explores the intensification of interest in culture as the basis for new forms of development and the assertion of new rights.
The project has as its goal to advance a comparative law analysis between Colombia and South Africa in terms of legal interventions to counteract or prevent environmental destruction and its particular gendered effects.
Breast cancer is the most prevalent cancer among women worldwide.
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.
Africa, once considered the breadbasket of the world, is now highly dependent on food imports.
Any serious study of the Indic ideas of freedom must begin with acknowledging the centrality accorded to order in a polity.
During this last half century of global expansion in higher education, attention focused on the population of first-generation students: those whose parents had not been to university.
During his South African years (1893-1914), Mohandas Gandhi began fashioning his world-changing ideas on satyagraha/‘passive resistance’.
Gender based violence and sexual violence in specific have reached unprecedented levels in countries in the Global North and South.
Chronic Myeloid Leukemia (CML) is an aggressive type of blood cancer that requires life-long therapy.
This project seeks to open and explore a liminal space for critique between aesthetics and politics.
The growth of global news media presents a fundamental challenge to the theory and practice of media ethics.
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).
The project explores the hypothesis that the eradication of inequalities (especially the alleviation of poverty) in developing regions and especially in Africa is directly dependent on the practice of good governance – not only by governments, but also in the corporate and NGO sectors of society.
The proposed research will investigate the political role of the military in securing democratic gains in Zambia and Malawi.
Communication has been identified as the single biggest barrier to health care and the provision of culturally and linguistically appropriate services is a top priority, particularly in light of the illness burden imposed by diseases such as HIV/AIDS.
Emotion is part of history, in the way we live, and experience it.
Indigenous rights claims remain a central, unresolved human rights issue in Australia, Canada, New Zealand, South Africa and the United States.
A growing concern in HIV research is the emergence of drug resistant strains of the virus.
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.
Over 1.3 million women are each year diagnosed with one of three major gynecologic cancers, ovarian cancer, endometrial cancer or cervical cancer.
Informal settlements (slums) are rapidly growing in the developing world.
It will be my task to engage in conversations that build and offer opportunities for cocreation in research and higher education.
Although African economic history is enjoying a renaissance, the branch of the subject represented by business remains relatively neglected.
Plant biodiversity is essential to the survival of the human being and the whole biosphere.
Higher education globally is undergoing significant transitions due to increasing levels of diversity amongst student populations.
Cardiovascular disease (CVD) is the leading cause of mortality and amounts to about a third of all global deaths.
Biochemists traditionally accept the view that life is an extremely complex form of chemistry (the Chemical paradigm), a view which implies that genetic information and the genetic code are but metaphorical concepts because they cannot be described by physical quantities.
In a current comparative research project the interaction between informational development and human development has been examined in various contexts, including Finland, Silicon Valley, Chile and Taiwan.
Ecosystem services and wild resources are worth more than global GDP.
Agro-enterprises make important contributions to employment and income generation in developing countries, occupying a strategic position in manufacturing that comprise an essential supply-source of food and fiber production and represent an important demand-driver for agricultural products.
The contemporary western academic modes of reading the bible which focus on the history of the text or the text itself, and serve western interests and goals are inadequate for addressing questions and issues from African contexts.
This is a study of the legacies and meanings of Chief Luthuli’s life in history and today.
Two book-length studies will be completed.
The project is a comparative study of the South African-born, now Australian writer J.
The Nobel laureate J.M. Coetzee is currently South Africa’s most resourceful and influential writer.
The proposed project looks into the activities of the Instituut vir Volksmusiek at Stellenbosch University.
The project will analyse three factors in play: a national project of post-colonial recovery from distributive injustice, prominently including land reform; express constitutional protection for property rights; and a constitution whose other main features bring it recognisably within the broad historical tradition of liberal constitutionalism.
Building on empirical findings of former projects (spread over the years, from 2014 to 2023), the research project aims at conceiving land tenure otherwise, deviating from standard approaches by putting the articulation of interests and claims first; tracing how actors relate to each other and how they try to make their own claims heard and recognized by others.
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.
This project consists in writing a monograph about the irreducible and pervasive complexity of the natural world (the biological world, in particular), and about the importance of becoming increasingly aware of this intrinsic complexity, in continuous development and evolution (more so when combined with the artificial worlds recently created by humans), if we are to handle adequately future challenges for science and society.
This project thinks through the space of the lift as urban affective infrastructure in Johannesburg over the 20th century.
Over the past two centuries, the dominant view in social science has been that the modern world shows a pattern of linear development in which all positive trends go upward in more or less linear fashion (albeit perhaps at an uncertain speed), and that therefore over time discrepancies between the leaders and the laggards are overcome, toward a relatively homogenized world.
Traditionally, teachers of reading and writing have assumed texts as monolingual and monomodal.
Macrophages represent a heterogeneous family of white blood cells which are widely distributed throughout the body.
Developing a (mathematical) model suitable for the integration of the different levels of biological research (sub-molecular, molecular, organisms, populations) in one framework.
The spread of most diseases is strongly affected by the migrations of populations due to wars, natural disasters or prevailing economic circumstances.
This book-length project is tentatively titled Metaquestions: The Space of Thought in Philosophy and Beyond.
This project entails further refining and developing the technological apparatus necessary for the creation of broad quality digital film media from a mobile source taking into cognizance the specific advantages that such a breakthrough would have for millions of previously disadvantaged South African citizens whose access to the mainframe of the digital grid is extremely limited.
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, is the last project that will bring to completion the trilogy of life writing projects initiated in 2005.
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.
The profound challenge of ensuring the long-term well-being and perhaps even the survival of human society within societal and bio-geo-physical planetary boundaries hinges critically on transforming collective behaviors and embedding and maintaining the changes in cultures of sustainability.
The project will involve the final editing and fine-tuning of the main body of the book Nelson Mandela – Tolerance and Leadership.
The global prevalence of type 2 diabetes (T2D) is increasing, with sub-Saharan Africa having the highest projected increase.
What makes us human? We have long known that humanitys uniqueness–language and our openended creativity–arose from our ancestors in Southern Africa, a generative promiscuity pervading all we do, from combinatorial tool making to combinatorial language; and from there to music and mathematics.
Since the publication of his landmark book, African Philosophy: Myth and Reality(1976), Paulin Jidenu Hountondji (1942-2024) has become one of the most important names in modern African philosophy.
This book project follows the symbiotic atmospheric pathways that connect plant and human breath to develop forms of cultural theorizing accountable to an increasingly climate-deranged world.
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.
The proposed project builds on some of my earlier work on music and violence, and is born of the politico-ethical imperative to break the silence surrounding structural violence and abuse in institutionalised spaces devoted to music pedagogy: the lecture room, the teaching studio, the community project.
A study of how Malthus relates to understanding, and resolving, the food-land-population predicaments of sub-Saharan Africa.
Several studies reported that bacterial co-infections have been considered an important contributor to morbidity and mortality of COVID-19.
Many ecological conservation goals require the use of legal means to channel land development and otherwise curtail unsound uses of privately owned lands.
Recent scholarship on the ‘postcolonial subject’ in Africa and beyond posits a link between neoliberalism and the evolution of new subjectivities.
Parity-time (PT) symmetry has attracted a lot of attention in many fields of physics in recent years.
Race Changes is a book about people whose seemingly permanent racial or ethnic identities in fact change over the course of their lifetimes.
Regime shifts refer to large, persistent changes in the structure and function of complex systems such as intertwined social-ecological systems (SES).
Against the background of memory activism and decolonial movements in Southern Africa, much discussed since the South African #RhodesMustFall movement in 2015, this project traces the complex transfigurations of anti-colonial struggle memory, culture, and citizenship in postcolonial Namibia from the late 1990s through to the early 2020s.
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.
As the global population is projected to rise from 8.
Cities and larger towns are increasingly home to the majority of people, globally and in South Africa.
This project seeks to overcome the (economistic, functionalist) limitations of received understandings of crisis, by drawing on the thought of Karl Polanyi, especially his 1944 work, The Great Transformation.
Sign languages, the visual-gestural languages of Deaf communities, lack a written form.
The South African Constitution contains extensive social and economic rights.
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.
This project investigates sound knowledges from Southern African cosmologies and investigate their deployment in black radicalism enacted within Pan-African and black internationalist contexts in the 20th and 21st centuries.
This project positions South African Literature within the emergence of the New Humanities (Medical, Environmental, Digital), and orients both toward Medical, Scientific and Social Sciences’ emphases on the Sustainable Development Goals.
In contexts of displacement and marginality, people’s aspirations and active material and political struggles for secure housing – alongside their multi-layered efforts at home-making – might be construed as acts of either insurgent optimism or necessary anticipatory investment.
The project explored the relationship between classical gravity and quantum field theories, as well as possible applications of the mathematical structures of string theory to low energy systems such as Quantum Hall Fluids.
Amyloids are proteins able to form very regular insoluble fibrils.
Two of the most important global crises of the current historical moment are migration and climate change, with the attendant biodiversity loss and other ecological problems.
Cancer is one of the leading causes of death worldwide including South Africa.
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.
In 2018, the South African government instituted a social assistance payment and registration system that it would administer through a public entity: the South African Post Office (SAPO).
Digital inclusion is a real concern when dealing with low-skilled, low-literate people who only speak oral languages.
Water is critical for human existence and all life as we know it.
This research project is on unconstitutional changes of government (UCG).
Since the start of my career the focus of my scholarly research has been what has been defined as the agrarian question.
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?
This is a team project within the Crossing Borders theme.
The fate of every organism is death—or so it seems.
Like all complex animals, humans have faces.
The future of human society – and indeed, the very meaning of what it is to be human – is inextricably related to mobility.
The project is concerned with the sustainability of democracy around the globe in the wake of the 2008-2009 financial and economic crisis.
This project has expanded beyond the initial STIAS realm and is the outgrowth of an initiative developed between STIAS and the Peter Wall Institute for Advanced Studies (PWIAS), associated with the University of British Columbia.
This play centres on the harsh and challenging world of the itinerant group of sheep shearers in the Karoo who have now virtually disappeared.
Judge Radhabinod Pal is a forgotten man in international law.
Reductionism has been the predominant research strategy of molecular and structural biology in the 20th century.
A critical investigation of post-apartheid life under a transformed legal, political and social order from the perspective of women.
This proposed study, which is an extension of my current research, sets out to examine the representations of the chitenje (a wrap-around cloth) in Malawian popular arts, as a site for examining how questions of gender, sexuality, class, and national belonging are negotiated.
South Africa’s turn to liberal constitutionalism has attracted wide interest from comparative politics scholars.
After the initial euphoria surrounding democratic transitions since the 1990’s, what is the present state and future prospects of these young democracies?
Scholars in the humanities continue to resist the possible applications of the cognitive neurosciences to the understanding of cultural phenomena.
The advent of the knowledge society has placed the spotlight on the role of experts as gatekeepers and as brokers of knowledge.
This book project concerns the 1963-64 trial of Neville Alexander and ten other members of the National Liberation Front (NLF).
Generative linguistic theory holds that language is shaped by principles hardwired in the human brain.
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.
The major project is to outline and pursue further research on the forthcoming book, titled ‘Intellectual Property and its Publics: The Work of Culture in an Era of Informational Capital’ which explores new pressures and tendencies to treat culture as a resource and the growing propensity to claim rights on cultural grounds under neoliberal capitalism.
‘The Global South’ is rarely seen as a source of explanation for world historical events.
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.
Why do we simply fail to establish a more human society in South Africa?
Reconceptualization of socio-cultural climate change maladaptation in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) demands a nuanced understanding of regions diverse social, cultural and environmental contexts.
Although South Africa is food secure on a country level, large numbers of households within the country remain food insecure.
This project investigates the mobilities of black women in Southern Africa.
The abnormal processing of amyloid precursor protein (APP), aggregation of Aβ, Tau hyper phosphorylation and propagation of these abnormally folded proteins have been collectively recognized as hallmarks of the initial, biochemical phase of Alzheimer’s Disease (AD) [De Strooper 2016].
Emergent behaviour seems to be characteristic of the `complex systems that currently feature in Mathematics, Computer Science, the Physical Sciences and Philosophy.
Malaria remains a significant public health problem in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA).
The textile and clothing sector generates a large amount of waste that are either incinerated or disposed in landfills.
Cape Town has a rich and most diverse musical heritage, shaped by all kinds of cosmopolitan influences.
The value of literature is minimised in the functioning of society.
This project aims to explore ideas surrounding water within the musical world of eSwatini.
While studies in the global North have focused on ‘green gentrification’ driven by park developments and eco-friendly initiatives, a different phenomenon is unfolding in rapidly urbanizing African cities.
When it comes to low probability-high impact (even catastrophic) risk, the judgment of ordinary people, it seems, is not to be trusted.
Organic photovoltaic systems now give more than 10% conversion efficiency from sunlight.
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.
Scholarship on mining frontiers tends to be masculine in focus, covering topic such as the centrality of resource extraction in the colonial and post-colonial projects.
Creole languages result from extreme linguitic contact between languages with distinct prosodic systems and often do not fit neatly into prototypical linguistic categories.
Different causes and expressions of xenophobia are analysed by comparing three countries: South Africa, Germany and Canada.
Identity is a term much used yet hard to define.
On 17 October the South African government introduced a Community Schemes Ombud Service for the swift and inexpensive resolution of disputes in community schemes of which sectional title schemes are the most important.
The evolution of individuality was first systematically addressed in a very influential book by Leo Buss in 1987.
The rise of neoliberalism caused a ‘lost decade’ of development in large parts of the global South.
Critics on both sides of the so-called ‘Afrikaans question’ tend to characterise the language as a hyper-local, and hence insulated, socio-cultural phenomenon.
Africa has been dependent on official development assistance or aid for decades.
Two distinct, mutually influential, and globally inspirational black freedom struggles in the last half of the twentieth century – against segregation in the United States and apartheid in South Africa – are largely understood through charismatic leadership.
Hans V. Westerhoff will put together the theoretical foundations of today’s biology in a comprehensive new theory, by researching and establishing connections between the various theoretical approaches in use.
Globally there are calls for incentives for biodiversity conservation, including the mobilization of financial resources to implement biodiversity targets effectively.
Against the background of ongoing debates about decolonisation and religion in Africa, this project examines the representation of, and engagement with Christianity in contemporary African literature.
For millennia humans have gazed into the sky and wondered where it all came from.
In ‘urban studies’, a varied area of research that crosses over many disciplines, two contemporary areas of focus that attract much attention are ‘southern urbanism’; and comparison of cities.
Skin stem cells give birth to daughter cells that eventually become specialized cells to form our protective, watertight skin and to produce hair.
Within global urban historiography there has been no detailed exploration of the nature and consequences of mingling across ethnic, racial or national boundaries in cities strongly socially and spatially divided along such as Belfast, Beirut, Jerusalem or Johannesburg.
Modern medicine aims to improve our current abilities to diagnose and treat human diseases via a more personal health assessment.
The ability to characterize cell types and their genetic programs across tissues, have profoundly accelerated through the development of single-cell sequencing methods.
This project looks back at history via the short story genre.
Most species occur in subdivided (fragmented) populations.
The purpose of this project is to analyze the construction of black identity in 21st - century France.
I have conceptualized a work encompassing four distinct yet related books, each around 150 pages long, tentatively entitled the Genocide and Hope Quartet, and comprised of the following parts: Dandi; Auschwitz; Hiroshima; and Robben Island.
The germline functions to perpetuate life and relay genetic and epigenetic information across generations.
In this project, for the first time, the history of early Israelite Religion is based on the results of historical research on the emergence and development of the two states Judah and Israel.
The aim research project is to find new ways to prevent and treat implant associated infections.
Inhospitable Places is a feminist project that works with thinking about race, gender and class in contemporary South African contexts.
Israel’s 1982 invasion of Lebanon was a formative moment in Middle Eastern and international history, reshaping Israeli and Lebanese politics, society, and culture; the fate of Palestinian self-determination; diaspora Jewish attachments to Zionism; and Western policy across the Arab world.
Despite extensive social science research documenting the coercion and damage attendant and endemic to the sex industry and decades of legal debate on approaches to this problem, no effective legal challenges have resulted.
This is a book-length biography of Sudanese writer Leila Aboulela (b.
Many parts of Africa are today not connected to an electricity grid.
Human-caused changes are affecting the environment in ways that challenge many organisms, including parasites.
Gold dominated South Africa for a century.
This project provides a historical perspective on migration, demonstrating that it is the defining feature of our species, without which homo sapiens would not have thrived and populated our planet.
Bioinspiration is the use of physical and technological principles to design devices working almost as biological entities (from the animal and vegetal species).
Neurodegenerative diseases, including Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s, are devastating disorders affecting millions worldwide.
Obesity is a medical condition defined as the excessive accumulation of fat that presents a risk to human health.
In recent decades nations around the world have begun to open up significant amounts of the non-personal data they generate, gather and hold.
This project addresses the question of what constitutes good scientific reasoning.
Changed circumstances since the adoption of the primary international human rights treaties, a multitude of scattered education rights norms, and distinct new challenges require a reframing of the right to education in international law.
The way we talk about abortion needs to change.
The law of unjustified enrichment is about achieving corrective justice, and the aim of my project is about developing a more perfect way of attaining this goal by investigating the phenomenon of enrichment flowing from the invasion of another’s rights.
Can seaports function as growth poles outside the Traditional Maritime Nations?
With increased transnational migration in recent years, children growing up with more than one language has become more and more common as people cross borders, integrate into new cultural-linguistic landscapes, form intermarriages and partnerships, and create multilingual families.
Despite its fundamental status in biology, the species category definition remains controversial and quantitative methods to test species status are in their infancy.
This project seeks new critical and creative perspectives on the planetary crisis in forms of storytelling from the global South and the southern hemisphere that address the oceanic and hydrological effects of the Anthropocene.
Based on the results of a previously terminated project Mapping out options for a model legislation on sustainable soil management in Africa, a model legislation for sustainable soil management is currently under development, for adoption by the Pan-African Parliament (PAP) and subsequent transmission as a proposal to all national parliaments of the African Union.
Evolution depends on the copying of genetic information (DNA) with the incorporation of changes (mutations) that are inherited by subsequent generations.
While policy-makers and international development practitioners in southern Africa put a great weight on supporting job creation given several decades of jobless growth in the region, there is less attention on how women and men are both differentially situated in labour relations and how they differentially make claims on resources that come from work activities through, for example, idioms of kinship, family, patronage, or friendship.
A key feature of the Anthropocene is the production of nuclear waste.
Surprisingly little is known about how the South African publishing industry has operated over the past 35 politically tumultuous years.
The Martyr traces the story of Omar, a young Kenyan man and a talented sculptor who joins the Al-Shabaab after being innocently arrested in a police swoop and locked up for two years.
The STIAS Fellowship will be used to define a new field of research for the next four years.
Wetting phenomena are ubiquitous in nature and in our manufactured technological environment.
My project involves writing a song cycle to form the basis of an opera, Where Does The Air Go?
The #JustAndEquitableNow team reflects on what it means to make, teach, and research the arts when communities are protesting against longstanding injustices and demanding better futures.
Interest in the study of the traumatic repercussions of violent histories on descendants of victims and survivors has proliferated in the sub-field of memory and trauma studies, with earlier research in the field focusing mainly on descendants of Holocaust survivors.
Alkebulan: The Return of the Leopard is set in the formative phases of the African Federation made up of the continent and its diasporas – Caribbean Africa, European Africa, N.
How did a film, a workshop, an anthology, and a department promote decolonization and steal its potential at the same time?
Blind or visually impaired people (BVIP) are increasingly encountering difficulties in their daily lives.
Bioarchaeology is the study of human remains found in archaeological contexts, also taking these contexts into account to help understand humans on the landscape.
This project examines the production, enforcement, and impact of the Immorality (Amendment) Act (1950) during apartheid.
My project focuses on water and sanitation through the technologies that provide them, as a highly specific material index for abstract sensibilities about what constitutes a proper and dignified human life.
Gastrointestinal (GI) dysfunction has considerable impact on life-quality worldwide.
Diophantine equations appear when one searches for solutions of algebraic equations in two or more variables which are easy to represent as numbers like integers, or fractions.
The beautiful colors of stained glass arise thanks to metal nanoparticles embedded in the glass.
This project focuses on the unique position of South Africa and the Afrikaner minority within the narratives and imaginaries of contemporary transnational radical right-wing movements.
The story of Krotoa !Goa /gõas
An almost maniacal commitment to cost, comfort and convenience has eaten into the infrastructure of collective institutional life.
To secure access to food for the growing world population, significant increases in agricultural productivity are needed.
My aim is to work on a draft of a novel I’ve been writing for several years.
Throughout environmental history, humanity has prospered from the natural resources provided by the biodiversity in their environments.
Memory plays an important role in many real-life situations; in particular, it is obvious that remembering past experiences affects future choices.
Evolutionary ecology theory applies principles of biological evolution to explain variation in how living creatures appear and behave.
Prompted by Roland Barthes’ The Preparation of a Novel, this presentation outlines how in the course of pursuing the creative life as a poet, a translator, an independent filmmaker and as a small press publisher from one of the regions of the Philippines, I now cast myself to another kind of vita nova, by wanting-to-write this tetralogy, which I have happily conceived during my STIAS residency.
Zionism does not only colonize space; it also colonizes time.
The connection of obesity with major chronic diseases and causes of death is well-known, but knowledge is scarce for rarer diseases, and for other obesity-related markers than a single measure of body mass index (BMI, kg/m2).
Since around 500BCE, when Heraclitus declared that everything changes while Parmenides maintained that everything stays the same, the dichotomy of process and substance has been at the heart of Western philosophy.
From #RhodesMustFall to #BlackLivesMatter, an important component of anti-racist protest movements has been concerns about epistemic injustice.
A quarter century into democratic South Africa, it is a truism that Apartheid’s forms remain present in various ways.
This project engages with the notion of recognition as a crucial moral, political, and theological category.
Spinal cord injury unproportionable occurs in young adults with devastating consequences for their physical, mental, social and professional life.
Ending poverty has been the world’s priority for decades.
Settling Nature documents the widespread ecological warfare practiced by the state of Israel.
Is a humanist intellectual with a popular audience more likely to be a credentialed expert or an autodidact?
The main objective of this project is the finalization of a monograph analysing the linkages between the anthropocene, climate change and International Relations.
Increasingly, from the later part of the fifteenth century, European traders and travellers had seen people and places in sub-Saharan Africa.
Phileas Fogg, the main character in Jules Verne’s acclaimed novel Around the World in Eighty Days, could not have suffered from jet-lag during his trip, despite crossing multiple time zones.
The Anglophone diaspora arose during the period we identify as the Anthropocene.
Who and what we are as humans have always been controversial questions.
Worldwide, at least 2.2 billion people live with visual impairment and there is a huge need for these cases to be addressed or prevented.
Whilst most decolonial scholars have made important contributions on the nature of coloniality as an intellectual problem and the need to decolonise, the practical deployment of decolonial programme is yet to commence.
Oral diseases are among the most common and among the most neglected diseases of mankind.
This project will be a comprehensive review of the rare earth elements (REE) .
The importance of early childhood development (ECD) for both individual and societal economic and humanitarian growth is increasingly appreciated and efforts by governments and multilateral agencies to improve human development are taking shape, including in low- and middle-income countries.
The communicative, semiotic, creative and relational meanings surrounding food expand understandings of power dynamics, identity-constitution and discursive perceptions of being human.
Globally, mental illness is more responsible for extreme distress than poverty or unemployment, and, to compound the problem, mental illness interacts with poverty and unemployment in socially and economically impactful ways that create reinforcing cycles.
The Indian Ocean has been called the ocean of the South, as well as the ocean of the future.
This project analyzes the presence and impacts of West African migrants in urban spaces in North Africa and Southern Europe: how the sociopolitical contexts they enter shape their lives and livelihoods and, in turn, how they challenge and alter those contexts, raising questions about rights, membership, and lived diversity.
Industrial fishing is a dangerous, difficult job: workers endure long working hours, cramped living conditions, inadequate provision of food and water, and low wages.
Decolonization may be taken as a phase in the history of colonized people that is represented by a movement towards a critique of colonial effects during both colonialism and postcolonialism.
Complexity theory offers new ways of understanding how social-ecological systems function under pressure, for example how climate change related stressors may exacerbate competition over scarce resources or limit livelihood options.
Around the world, gender inequality continues to shape individual opportunities, families, and societies.
Antibiotic resistant is a global problem that will only increase over time and is further highly relevant for the tuberculosis patients of South Africa.
Metal bioavailability-based approaches are used to predict the bioavailability of metals in surface waters and toxicity to aquatic organisms.
Charles Darwin jotted in his notebook in 1838, He who understands the baboon would do more towards metaphysics than Locke.
This project enables the completion of ongoing research that explores knowledge systems in the South Atlantic and Indian Ocean islands.
Before the 2017 election, Kenya’s President declared the minority ethnic Makonde community recognised as ‘the 43rd tribe of Kenya’.
The global economic architecture has in recent decades undergone a significant level of reconfiguration in terms of trade and investments as a result of the emergence of China as a direct competitor to highly industrialised countries of the North.
Citizenship on Catfish Row focuses on three seminal works in the history of American culture: the first great film, D.
The design of tubular structures with desirable internal and external topology represents a challenge for tissue engineering of cardiovascular grafts.
Science relies on numeric quantification, which can be traced back to Euclid, Galileo, and Newton.
Social interactions are central to most organisms and the social environment experienced by an individual influences its behaviour and ultimately its (evolutionary) fitness.
Some commentators have aptly called Russia’s Ukraine war a war of obsession.
The proposed project investigates the sacred landscapes of the southern arid margins of the Levant (now southern Jordan/Israel), as observed by the spatial distribution and the material culture of the cultic and funerary sites of the mostly semi-pastoral peoples that lived in the area from the Neolithic to the Early Islamic period (ca.
The process of transforming agriculture in the Southern African Development Community (SADC) is, especially for policymakers and decisionmakers, highly complex.
What influence does living or working in a given area, an area delimited –even if informally - from its surroundings, have on those inside and those outside this distinct area?
This project addresses how, and how early, racial and gender biases emerge in young children and how they are shaped by the linguistic and social communities (families, schools, neighborhoods) in which children are raised.
The increasing digitalisation of international trade deepens globalisation, and data flows play a key role in this transformation.
FINDING HOMER is a contemporary music-theater work.
SME financing has often been described as the missing middle piece of finance as SMEs are less likely to obtain financing than larger corporates or even micro borrowers.
This project investigates how the humanities and social sciences can contribute to new modes of conservation and environmental management that are responsive to the complex histories and politics of species introductions.
Ongoing tensions concerning cross-border supplies of medical equipment and vaccines and accusations of vaccine nationalism illustrates the pivotal importance of global value chains (GVCs).
The Presidential Advisory Panel on Land Reform and Agriculture (2019) argued that ‘land reform must be oriented around growing the agricultural sector to foster economic development, and not purely be an endeavour to transfer land’.
Licence to Talk is an attempt to describe the ‘actually-existing’ South African public sphere in all its messy complexity.
In addition to their well known functions in the controlling infections, immune cells and inflammatory reactions play crucial roles in metabolic and neurodegenerative diseases, such as obesity and Alzheimer’s disease.
The published novel is on the decline across the African continent.
The Sultanate of Oman is in a unique geographical location, at the Southeastern corner of the Arabian Peninsula.
Understanding the world around us begins with observation, and imaging is one of the main observation tools.
This project analyzes the fates of rulers and regimes which came to power in Africa in the 1980s-90s.
This project will use a multi-site comparative design to explore how ruling parties in Zambia (and Zimbabwe) extend their reach through dispensing ‘public’ goods such as market and bus stalls as well as housing developments to rule by co-optation rather than coercion in increasingly adverse political or economic climates.
The African Continental Free Trade Agreement (AfCFTA) is the current initiative to form the world’s largest free-trade zone in terms of number of countries.
Homozygous Beta thalassaemia is a lifelong condition requiring regular blood transfusions from infancy.
Equality is both a foundational value of the Constitution of South Africa and a protected right.
The growing religious pluralisation of modern societies has placed the question of religions and dialogue at the centre of public and academic attention.
Despite tremendous economic growth rates, especially in rural areas of South Africa and in its neighbouring countries, there is still a subsistence economy predominant.
We have entered a moment of profound challenge for open societies.
My project investigates black archives of Atlantic worlds as praxis and method, with a particular focus on sonic aspects.
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.
This project deals with the representation of the narrating animal in present-day African texts written in English, French and Portuguese.
The chance find of a diamond on a small hillock in South Africa one hundred and fifty years ago initiated an industrial mining revolution, the effects of which continue to reverberate far into the future.
The objective of this project is the finalization of a volume on Protestant ethics of sustainability which draws on more than 15 years of inter- and transdisciplinary research into the field.
Building on previous research on accelerated change and globalisation and on similarities between biological and cultural processes, this research project studies the ways in which global modernity reduces ecological diversity and cultural variation, and explores which measures are taken to counter this tendency, which takes away options for the future.
The intention of the research project and book on the history of universities is to consider and trace how important contemporary issues were understood and addressed historicallyin general, and at specific universities in South Africa.
In September 1977, Bantu Stephen Biko was murdered by the South African security police.
Mkhululi Mabija and Paul Castles as a librettist-compose team working on two companion pieces of alternative music theatre.
My research, based in close discourse analysis of primary and secondary medical and legal literatures, offers a history of the hepatitis B virus and vaccine development in the period from 1940 to 1988.
In (Black Afrikaans poet) Ronelda Kamfer’s collection Chinatown(2019), she criticises canonical Afrikaans white women poets for their implied complicity with apartheid and continued white hegemony within the Afrikaans literary sphere.
Cognitive science is an interdisciplinary research paradigm that emerged after WWII and that studies the mind at psychological, computational and neurobiological levels of analysis.
Mitochondria are essential organelles found in every human cell, required to convert food into usable energy.
My study of prehistoric art in the Northern Cape, South Africa probes the quest for an authentic past in relation to the region’s complex, layered history, from ancient traces to contemporary concerns.
The extinction of dinosaurs after a 10 km wide meteor struck Earth in today’s Caribbean, 66 million years ago, marked the division between the Cretaceous and Cenozoic (popularly known as the Age of Mammals).
The recent authoritarian turn globally raises questions about what happens to women’s rights in such contexts.
The third volume concluding my comprehensive, novel history of South-African/Afrikaans literature explores the period from the 1930s onwards.
The false codling moth (FCM) is a key quarantine pest in Africa.
This research project presents an ethnography and political economy of different spaces – cinemas, film festivals, websites, and other public spaces – where African films are screened, as well as an analysis of contemporary African films and of the genres and trends they represent.
Although an African Union Comprehensive Strategy Guide for Disaster Risk Reduction (AUDRR) exists, escalating natural disasters continue to aggravate livelihood insecurity across the continent, particularly in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA).
Increasingly, philosophy of religion is charged with failing to admit its Eurocentric character.
It is now recognized that poverty reduction efforts in Africa are undermined by capital flight.
The main purpose of this project is to interrogate whether the challenges faced by the new generation of African constitutions to enhance the prospects for constitutionalism was due, inter alia, to their lack of alignment with the African social context in terms of reflecting an African constitutional identity.
There is no doubt that significant inroads are made in of information technology in Africa.
My project focuses on water and sanitation through the technologies that provide them, as a highly specific material index for abstract sensibilities about what constitutes a proper and dignified human life.
The Song of Songs, a collection of ancient erotic poetry known to the modern reader as a part of the Jewish and Christian Bible, belongs to the ancient Near Eastern tradition of love poetry together with the poems written in Sumerian, Akkadian, and Egyptian.
This project centres on South Africa’s first illustrated magazine Libertas (1940 -1946) a vehicle of anti-Fascist advocacy and propaganda for pro-Allied engagement in WW2.
This project examines Akan and Yoruba epistemic virtue proverbs and theorises how they can be harnessed to transform knowledge and achieve epistemic decolonisation in Africa.
The health risks associated with the presence of toxic metals in water require the use of highly selective and sensitive techniques for accurately monitoring their presence and removing them to ensure public health safety.
Identity conflicts abound globally.
In Benin, the preliminary studies showed that the leafy vegetables produced in southern Benin were contaminated with C.
Challenges confronting our contemporary world like terrorism, populism, and religious pluralism recommend revisiting Gandhi’s concept of satyagraha.
The multivalent opportunities provided by the post-apartheid policy-led transforming cultural scene saw an intensification of cultural activities mushrooming throughout the country.
Strategies promoting social protection for agricultural growth have been remarkably successful in some countries (mainly Asian countries) but not in others (mainly African countries).
Cervical cancer is globally the third most common cancer in women, and in South Africa it is more common than breast cancer.
Promotion of well-being and healthy lives is the third goal of the United Nations Organization Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) (United Nations Organization, 2015) and as such well-being has become a major concern among national leaders and policymakers.
Every knowledge-based discipline proceeds trough history by coining new terms.
Antimicrobial resistance is a global problem which affects both developing and developed nations.
Orthogonal polynomials appear in many areas of applied mathematics and in particular in numerical analysis.
Throughout history, the power of music to enhance productivity at work has been exploited.
This project aims to address the economic mechanisms governing or heavily influencing all significant patent offices (PTOs) worldwide.
Queues of Limitless Hope asks: what happens to the novel form under the conditions of protracted socio-political crisis?
This project focuses on the affective shaping of identity in South African texts of the 21st century.
The beauty of BTK inhibitors is that they impair tumor development by blocking normal, unmutated BTK, causing many lymphoid tumors to be sensitive, as we have reviewed.
Innovations in biological evolution and in human culture – from science to the arts – arise by processes with multiple parallels.
The presented project aims at a systematic study of multiple scale models in epidemiology.
The trilogy is a young adult dystopian speculative fiction designed to sensitize African and global adults, to the need to engage politically and personally in order to take their destiny into their own hands.
Beginning from the understanding that it is imperative today to develop new concepts for the thinking of an emancipatory politics on the African continent (Fanon), this book develops and expands into new empirical domains the arguments first enunciated in my treatise on political theory Thinking Freedom in Africa: toward a theory of emancipatory politics which was awarded the Frantz Fanon Prize in 2017.
Humanity is facing an existential crisis from global climate change.
This research project examines the first generation of independent African leaders and how they went about constructing new African nation-states: forging a sense of nationhood out of disparate African ethnic groups brought together within artificial colonial boundaries through colonial rule; imagining the new nation through culture, religion, and the arts; choosing or defining a development model in a world divided into opposing camps of East and West by the Cold War; and the excitement of new sub-disciplines like development economics and its promise to transform former tropical colonies.
The International Criminal Court (ICC) intervened in Kenya after the disputed 2007/8 election that led to displacement of more than 650,000 people and death of 1133 lives according to the post-election violence commission report (GOK 2008).
Human mind continuously produces explanations because an explained world is perceived as more understandable, more secure, open for forecasting and for planning of successful actions.
This project is concerned with the role of language in epistemic justice, defined as an ethical project of reversing epistemic exclusions, mitigating epistemic harm, and seeking parity of epistemic authority for historically marginalized speakers and knowers.
The current ‘sixth extinction’ event represents a major crisis for conservation as well as for global society more generally.
The most important wine country in Africa is South Africa where grapes and wine were introduced by the white settlers in the 17th century.
The corpus of scholarship from the Global North signal an increasing global feminization of the legal profession.
Marine mammals are good indicators of ocean health, reflecting the state of the marine ecosystem.
Biology is the science of life.
Combining insights from political theology, postcolonial and critical race theories, this project interrogates the contemporary relation between religion and politics through an exploration of Jacques Derrida’s political thought.
Black Archives and Intellectual Histories brings together a range of scholars from South Africa, the continent at large and the black diaspora whose work has transformed our thinking about black intellectual histories and archives.
Hospitality has become an increasingly important theme in the contemporary discourse of migration.
The project is based primarily on a book manuscript under contract with Routledge Press: Citizenship in a Globalized World.
In general South African historiography has been marked by constant emphasis on apartheid, black resistance and formal Afrikaner politics has.
While at STIAS, I plan to complete a long-standing data analysis of large bodies of archaeological, paleontological, and climatological data in order to gain a comprehensive understanding of the evolution of skin colour in Homo sapiens for a joint project with Nina Jablonski.
Plants produce myriad of compounds with various biological properties.
This is a proposal that seeks to advance a new interpretation of the history of the formation of ideas and institutions of the Executive branch of government.
This research is a part of a larger project: a book on a philosophical account of human freedom, drawing strongly on the German philosopher Immanuel Kant.
Federalism is arguably one of the less explored subjects in African political studies.
Additive manufacturing (AM) of metals (3d printed metals) is set to disrupt manufacturing industries through its many advantages including complexity and innovation in design, short lead times, minimal waste and distributed manufacturing potential.
This project will bring together original, recently completed empirical work examining cultural and media dimensions of three key facets of contemporary consumer culture in the global south, with a view to generating new theory relevant to consumption in the global south.
This project is based on completing a book manuscript focussed on Gender, Sufi Ethics and Social justice in Islam, which is under contract to Oneworld Academic Publications for their series Islam in the 21stCentury.
This application is the first part of a larger long-term project on the establishment of an Academy of Global Humanities.
Hair is one of the most distinctive features of the human species and of individual people.
For a number of years we have been observing the rapid growth and proliferation of ICT-based platforms for small farmers all over Africa.
Somaliland is a democratically governed, autonomous region that defends its borders and issues currency in its own name.
This book project in four parts intends to study how people, coming from a centuries-old orality, act in a context of copyright introduced by colonial and postcolonial authority.
Local soil knowledge is an important source of information when designing sustainable agricultural strategies.
Discourses related to globalisation privilege the role of knowledge workers in economic development.
Development planning for the Adam Tas Corridor in Stellenbosch has been undertaken by a multidisciplinary group, including local and provincial planning authorities, urban developers, transport specialists and various Stellenbosch based interested and affected parties, including STIAS, Stellenbosch University and a number of Stellenbosch based businesses.
This project aims to consolidate and develop a national Performing Arts Health network led by Stellenbosch University and the University of Pretoria for interdisciplinary scholarly activity in the field of performing arts health in South Africa.
Mingling together historical record, myth and fiction, my aim is to write a play taking place in Mogadishu during the struggle for independence from Italy soon after the Second World War.
American philanthropy, notably the Rockefeller Foundation (RF), played an important role in the internalization of research in Europe after the First World War.
The modern society is reliant on digital communication, at present experiencing an immense expansion, but the communication should also be secure.
The Small Ocean Project explores how a historical focus on the intimate and ‘everyday’ lives of mobile subjects, within their simultaneously cosmopolitan and parochial worlds and intimate networks for transnational capital accumulation, can help us understand south-south globalization and its effects on Islam, capitalism and international regimes, around the turn of the 20th century.
Since the realisation of the first Bose-Einstein condensate (BEC) a couple of decades ago, there have been intense works on the quantum gas field, aiming mostly at unravelling the quantum properties of matter at large scale and to experimentally mimic the behaviour of physical systems that cannot be directly explored.
The clustering of economic activity has brought economic benefits in the past - London for finance, Hollywood for film, San Francisco for tech.
Partly prompted by and responding to the effects of Covid-19, our project takes a long-shot view of text, contagion, and ideas of the rights-bearing human over time.
Grounded in linguistic anthropology, the primary objective of this project is to provide a nuanced ethnographic account of how the sociocultural ambiguity of English as an academic lingua franca is one of its most defining features in the South Africa education system.
The Disorder is a body of work developed under the rubric of an ongoing project namely, To Be King.
Social media are now a major part of our daily life.
The accelerating capability of computing power and development of artificial intelligence poses new questions regarding the future of work.
This is an interdisciplinary research project on the morality of martiality.
The African Union in January 2016 adopted a treaty – the Protocol to the African Charter on the Rights of Older Persons – dealing with the rights of older persons in Africa.
The tension between personal experience, memory and historical fact is dynamic.
The focus of this research is combining Bayesian statistics, in particular Bayesian data analysis, with utility theory.
The project aims to explore little-studied dynamics among and behaviour of UN member states and staff members that constrain the organization, and render it resistant to meaningful reform and vulnerable to achieving sub-optimal results, against two possible overall hypotheses:Hypothesis 1: The UN’s underperformance is rooted in structural tensions: a) between sovereignty-based principles and between expectations that the Secretary-General needs a degree of policy autonomy; b) between a UN that relies on member states for funding and backing and a UN that is tasked to uphold set of universal human rights norms; and c) tensions over the nature of UN legitimacy.
This research focuses on South Africa’s democratic period and in particular on the state ambition- which I call the post-apartheid project— to provide a better life for all its citizens.
The study of popular culture in Africa illustrates that ordinary African residents in urban settings use their local specificities to create popular forms of African cultural production that respond in innovative ways to global cultural imports.
Postgraduate students could benefit from joining a projectivized research project, as this could be helpful to focus research objectives early in their career.
The brutal police killing of George Floyd in America on 25 May 2020 has led to global mass protest action through the Black Lives Matter (BLM) movement against police brutality and other institutionalized forms of violence against Black people.
This account of the |Xam language—from the !Ui branch of the TUU family—is envisaged as a contribution that will help to restore part of South Africa’sintangible cultural heritage.
An award-winning journalist working for a British-owned newspaper, investigates a series of killings that appear to be politically-related; the more he does so, the more he and his associates are threatened, and he has to negotiate numerous attempts to undermine his credibility with the planting of fake news, large sums of money being transferred into his account, and the odd honey trap.
The project aims to unpack the multiple ways that photographs depicting the sea can be utilised for formal experimentation and disruption in history writing.
The core of our investigation will be generative, site-based investigation into our music improvisation, both as practice and as reflexive engagement.
My fourth novel will look at the lives of internally displaced people in India in what I hope is a formally original way – by marrying the extreme and self-conscious artifice of the pastoral mode to the density and ‘life-like’-ness of the realist novel.
This project is the fruition of twenty-seven years of research on the significance of the Liberated Africans, those rescued from the holds of slave ships and dhows in the Indian and Atlantic Oceans, the Mediterranean and in the Caribbean between 1808 and 1888, with an aftermath that continued into the 1930s.
The idea of a renaissance suggests new consciousness, new attitudes, and values that undergird a new era of human development.
This project is a book-length study of the history of the nighttime in South Africa during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.
Despite their very different political and economic contexts, both Luanda and Nairobi have experienced housing booms and urban property bubbles over the last fifteen years.
This project applies the principles of massive small urban system change to the Adam Tas Corridor, an area in the city of Stellenbosch that comprises 400 ha along two intersecting transport routes.
My project is to write a Composition Treatise which draws largely on my six-volume set of nearly 100 piano pieces, Afrikosmos.
In the course of the last decades, several international courts have been established, either within the African Union [AU], or within the Regional Economic Communities [RECs], and even within some smaller sub- regional organizations.
At this critical historical conjuncture in South Africa, at the very precipice of tumultuous social change, multiple forces converge onto the stage of higher education in South Africa.
My current research project looks at recent dramatic changes to funerals among the Dagara of northwestern Ghana.
The present research proposal aims to work on an anthropology of misfortune in Cameroon by describing and analyzing critically various forms of malevolence in media narrative in Cameroon.
The subject of the project is organizational failure in public administration with severe consequences for the physical integrity of humans.
The body is an assemblage of not only the physical and the material.
Cancer is the second leading cause of death globally, and to reduce this societal and economic burden new treatment options will be needed.
This study explores the reciprocal relationship between technology, politics, and the arts.
The decision by the South African Parliament in February 2018 to review the constitutional property clause possibly allowing for expropriation without compensation has fervently brought the land question back into public debate.
Science has shifted in the last 120 years from a grounding in the Enlightenment ideas of formalism, determinacy, rationality, and stasis; to a new grounding in organicism, indeterminacy, contingent behavior, and evolutionary openness.
Complexity theory (Boulton et al, 2015) provides an important and potent challenge to the continuing dominance of worldviews informed by classical science.
A faction of Zimbabwe’s ruling party and many soldiers removed the country’s 93 year-old president from power over party and polity during a few weeks of November 2017.
The main aim of this project is to develop a resource that moves legal education away from the conventional teaching which focuses on the black letter of the law and perpetuates a colonial, hierarchical, and decontextualized understanding.
This project is about digital capitalism, and more specifically, the emergence of a new gig economy associated with the rise of new platform business models such as Uber, Upwork, TaskRabbit, Helpling, and others.
Africa is known for its rich biodiversity, particularly in higher plants.
This project poses the question of how authoritarian politics systems institutionalise themselves through everyday life.
The experimental works conducted during the past 15 years by Albertazzi and others have shown that phenomenal qualities subjectively perceived are not explicable by third person accounts.
When a unit of description makes way for a second unit that consists of many members of the first, the notion of individuality, which initially referred to the ‘one’, now refers to the ‘many’.
This research would form part of a larger project which aims to produce a new conceptual understanding of the relationship between global corporations, states, state law and international law.
A multi-generational family drama told through different periods of Zimbabwe’s history.
Human population growth threatens the integrity of 0.
This project, a prospective monograph entitled In/appropriate Personae: Contemporary Cultural Production and the Politics of Appropriation, seeks to examine the growing awareness of the politics of representation and ethics of appropriation in contemporary culture, especially in relation to depictions of race, ethnicity, gender, and sexuality.
Over the past few decades the presence of women in government also called descriptive representation has increased significantly because of a greater acceptance of quotas or reserve seats for women.
The project deals with the lessons of European integration for African attempts to regionally integrate further.
This project investigates how legal and bureaucratic processes mediate inheritance in South Africa, as a window into the formal institutional dimensions of middle-class reproduction.
This project for a book titled In the skin of the city: Luanda, or the dialectics of spatial transformation examines the process of historic formation and transformation of Luanda, the capital city of Angola.
Colonialism was not only racist and exploitative, it was also ridiculous.
In post-liberation societies, memorialization and commemoration can occur at a grand, national scale, often being linked to heroic freedom fighters or critical revolutionary turning points.
The project concerns the availability, adequacy and access to social protection of three selected vulnerable migrant categories, i.
This book explores how new regimes of labor and mobility control are taking shape across the global north in a militarized form that mimics South Africas history of apartheid.
This project explores distributive struggles on the platinum belt in South Africa.
Literary works by African writers of Asian descent construct the experiences of Asian communities in the western Indian Ocean (East Africa) as counter-narratives that seek to provide alternative and more nuanced accounts of Asian presence in the region.
Drawing on my own fieldwork in Ghana as well as secondary sources on West Africa, but also other African countries, this project will explore two challenges in particular.
I experience contemporary art music as a marriage of two musical cultures, Kiganda of the Baganda in Uganda and the western art music, which have shaped my musical performance and creativity for the last 40 years.
The controversial institution in the economic system throughout most of the world is not the market or private property but the employer-employee relationship.
During the second world war, savings campaigns mobilized the people of the British empire and commonwealth, whether men, women, or children, to make public, individual investments in the war effort.
Taking racism as the engine of capitalism, the study of racial capitalism offers a potent framework for understanding how racism structures modern life.
The strategic aim is to prepare a book for publication that describes and explains the vicissitudes of democracy and underdevelopment in Africa and Eastern Europe by method of comparison.
There is extensive study of pragmatic marker borrowing from Asian languages by speakers of Asian Englishes, without a full exploration of pragmatic markers borrowed from African languages into African Englishes.
This project aim to study mechanisms underlying the very high occurrence of type 2 diabetes in black South African Women.
The notion of playing with identity through physical appearance is particularly evident in society.
South Africa (SA) is a low-middle income country (LMIC) with an ageing population and increasing prevalence of non-communicable diseases (NCD).
QBism (pronounced cubism) is an interpretation of quantum mechanics that takes an agents actions and personal experiences as the central concerns of the theory.
Large-scale property developers have recently embarked on a far-reaching strategy designed to reshape the existing spatial configuration of many cities in Africa.
For this project I am reading the burgeoning publication of essays that tackle black middle-classness and related aspects such as masculinities, femininities and race - indeed, intersections of these.
The focus of this research is religious pluralism and hybrid identities, particularly the construction of religious identities resulting from the African diaspora in Latin America and the Caribbean.
This study reads narratives that focus on the representations of (dis)abled bodies in sexually charged spaces in a bid to (re)value these bodies as they negotiate their humanity as well as their capacity to give and receive pleasure.
This intended collection will include around 20 African short stories which will be translated into Icelandic.
South Africa has played a leading role in the development of international human rights in very different and sometime diametrically opposing capacities.
At a time when the focus of economic development is often the so-called Global South, yet when countries of the north continue to grow in geopolitical dominance, this interdisciplinary project offers a series of cultural, historical, and literary reflections on southness.
Recently, there has been a renewed interest in discussions pertaining to ‘social inclusion’, largely resulting from adoption by the United Nations, of the UN 2030 Agenda encompassing the new Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), and a commitment by States to ‘leave no one behind’ during SDGs implantation.
African countries rank low in almost all development indicators.
An anticipatory behavior is a behavior that ‘uses’ the future in its actual decision process.
The Negatives is a conceptual novel about a photographer adrift in contemporary America who is forced to confront the ethics of her practice in a moment at which the very medium of her art has reached a state of volatility, mutability, and impermanence.
The focus of the Stellenbosch Annual Seminar on Constitutionalism in Africa (SASCA) 2019 will be on constitutionalism and the economy in Africa.
A growing scholarly consensus views high quality education as essential for sustained and equitable development.
In every country, women earn less than men; in all but five, women are less likely to have paid employment.
This research intends to analyze informality as a dimension of the social contract initiated by marginalized actors in response to the crisis of welfare state in Global South.
There is a long-standing debate in theological ethics (as well as in moral philosophy) between, on the one hand, theories that thinks of ethics as a form of decision theory that can overcome the contingency and arbitrariness of the human body (emotions and intuitions) and the socio-historical context, and, on the other hand, understandings of ethics that sees ethics as an embodied practice embedded in traditions, narratives, social practices, institutions, and concerned with moral formation.
Cutting across the boundaries of recent political theory, psychoanalysis, and philosophy, this project aims to show that the link between one human being and another, the social bond, consists of a traumatic encounter.
This book project is geared towards a new understanding of democracy, considering that so-called ‘democratic’ modern decisions negatively affect other peoples and thus become undemocratic.
African-language literatures have long and deep histories in their societies but take place within fenced literary spaces and typically are unavailable to world literature audiences.
Unlike Hepatitis B, there is no vaccine available for protection against Hepatitis C virus (HCV).
Does modern capitalism produce new forms of slavery?
This project will take its point of departure in field work carried out by Bodil Folke Frederiksen and myself in two urban slum areas in South Africa and Kenya from the mid-1990s onwards.
How does the organization of women transform gender relations and living standards of Fulani women in pastoralist communities of northern Benin?
This project engages with the possibility for solidarity between women across differences of race, class and sexuality as it is represented in a range of artistic forms (poetry, fiction and visual images) created by women from the Anglophone Caribbean and South 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.
Patients with thalassemia major require regular blood transfusions from 6-12 months of age to stay alive.
Africa has emerged as the ‘final frontier’ in the global debate over the potential for Genetically Modified (GM) crops to alleviate poverty and hunger for smallholder farmers.
This project involves writing a history of one of Soweto’s most historically important secondary schools, Morris Isaacson High School.
Ancient humour arts exemplify how satire creates a sense of community from shared laughter.
The emergent fields of stratification economics and identity economics offer new theoretical insights for explaining economic inequality, specifically the unique role that intersectionality (the existence of multiple social identities) might play.
At the continental level, various legal instruments adopted within the framework of the African Union ((AU) guarantee a certain number of human and peoples’ rights.
Recent decades have witnessed systematic efforts to build institutions in response to mass atrocities, a justice cascade, and an unprecedented wave of apologies by heads of state.
Mortality caused by mosquito vectors is still higher in African countries than elsewhere.
The three years 2016 to 2019 will change South Africa more significantly than any other time since the dawn of democracy in 1994.
Why and how did we (Homo sapiens) evolve into a species that is dependent on its ‘brains’ rather than its ‘brawn’ for our survival and successful spread across the globe?
Viruses are the most common causes of acute gastroenteritis (AGE) globally, and rotaviruses have been implicated as the leading cause of AGE in children below the age of five.
Witnessing the large-scale displacement and conditions of statelessness in the wake of the Second World War, political theorist Hannah Arendt coined the evocative phrase the right to have rights, arguing that the fundamental right, from which all other rights sprung, was the right to membership of a political community.
Even though we have some basic understanding of the power of quantum computation, and its impact on cryptography and cryptanalysis, there are many open problems, some of them purely technical and some more fundamental.
The Knowledge Society is a common expression nowadays in the Global North and the Global West, were knowledge means technological knowledge and training geared towards economic growth, development and modernization.
We develop an operational convolutional neural network, that distinguishes 170 different South African birdsongs.
The 1990s were the starting point in the wave of new multiparty democracies in Africa.
My research project falls into the interdisciplinary field of human-animal studies and deals with the discursive formation of human-dog correlation in socio-political discourse.
The fellowship at STIAS will build on my prior work on comparative administrative law dealing with public participation in policymaking.
The project focuses on falsified medicines - a growing health problem affecting both developed and developing countries.
The killing of Irish nun and medical doctor, Sister Aidan Quinlan, in the East London riots of 1952 at the height of the ANC Defiance Campaign, is an event that has long been difficult in the telling.
What happens when an Indian Ocean past meets an African Indian present in a collection of photographs by Ranchhod and Rohit Oza, family proprietors of Capital Art Studio who together visually captured the worldly place (and centre of the dhow trade and culture) of Zanzibar from 1930 until the present day?
Central to the question of land grabs around the world is a tension between the sovereignty of States - and its internal manifestation in the form of eminent domain - and the property rights of individuals and communities.
I am in the early stages of this project but my expectation is that it will become a novel.
Over 45 % of people in Africa do not have access to clean drinking water.
In this project, I seek an opportunity at STIAS to write several chapters of a book based on a comparative account of the nexus between violence and democracy in two shantytowns in Haiti and South Africa.
This project proposes to examine three key policies, one in each ministry, in the form of a memoir on how decisions were taken and implemented.
I will be completing a book in the Cambridge Studies in Philosophy and Biology series, to be published by Cambridge University Press in 2019; this is co-authored by Marion Lamb.
This project examines the dynamic relationships between the key actors of representative democracy in EU member states: voters, political parties, parliaments and governments.
The philosopher William James once wrote, Like the old woman who described the world as resting on a rock, and then explained that rock to be supported by another rock, and finally said it was ‘rocks all the way down,’ he who believes this to be a radically moral universe must hold the moral order to rest either on an absolute and ultimate should or on a series of shoulds ‘all the way down’.
The project will involve analysis and interpretation of data collected in research aimed at interrogating societal definitions of rape.
Vulvodynia is a chronic pain condition that is characterized by recurrent vulvo-vaginal pain that does not have an identifiable cause.
The International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) and the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR) are about to close their doors and have already considerably scaled down their activities.
The purpose of this project is to conclude a book-in-progress, entitled Land Restitution and the Moral Modernity of the New South African State.
Africa is home to the remaining hunter-gathers, meaning traditional communities that make a living predominantly through collecting wild fruits and hunting wild animals.
Africa along with Asia is the epicenter of rapid urbanization in the 21st century.
The project is to write an autobiographical narrative about the research and development of rechargeable lithium-ion batteries from a research curiosity to practical reality.
This project has been built around the premise that by and large the present day social security systems in Africa are failing.
National identity is the set of inter-related cultural attributes that provides meaning and self-recognition to a collective of humans who define themselves as a national community.
How can democracy and social peace survive in societies divided by race, ethnicity, religion, region, language or ideology?
Worldwide, genetically modified (GM) crops are perceived as necessary for sustainable agriculture to enhance food security and mitigate climate change.
Kiruna, the northernmost city in Sweden, is constructed around a classic industrial source of production – the prosperous mine.
Myocardial infarction is one of the major causes of death globally.
In our era of mass migration, understanding migrant families’ efforts to forge and maintain meaningful social and civic ties is more important than ever.
This is a collaborative, interdisciplinary project, located in the Faculty of Arts at UWC, which seeks to rethink the ways in which we conceptualise and understand the field of South African literatures, almost three decades after the legislated ending of apartheid, and just over two decades after Michael Chapman’s landmark study, Southern African Literatures (1996), arguably the first (and last) study to engage thoroughly with literatures in all languages in the region.
We are continuously witnessing a confluence of socio-economic and social-ecological crisis manifested in the form of growing environmental degradation, persistent economic stagnation, increasing unemployement and growing disparities between and within countries.
Flavonoids are an important class of natural products that occur in plants, and microorganisms.
Finding an African way of dealing with African urbanism: Complexity theory and systems thinking show how governments and people can work together to achieve something that neither could ever achieve alone.
Prominent economists (and US trade negotiators) assert that bad things happen when creative works fall into the public domain.
The purpose of this work is to explore the role of Commissions; interrogate existing Commission discourses; examine the power of Commissions and their place in law and governance; investigate the global developments of their legal and socio-political dimensions; a process that involves a holistic approach that probes and unpacks Commissions in their complexity.
During its 12-year trajectory, the Khulumanicase has excited interest worldwide.
Comparative perspectives from the global south can tell us much about the meteoric rise of the new middle class 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.
There is a fairly substantial literature on the manner and extent to which universities engage with society.
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’.
This envisaged collection will comprise of short stories set in different periods over a century, beginning from the 1920s to the 2020s.
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.
There are three paths to constitutionalism in the modern world.
The proposed research project is a study of the recent resurgence of traditional authorities in southern 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.
The need for transformational change in national development efforts received unprecedented global consensus and support in 2015 resulting in the adoption of Agenda 2030 on Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and the signing of the Paris Agreement on Climate Change.
Prosperous people live longer and old age carries a high risk of dementia, a condition that is so far neither preventable nor curable.
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.
The book I am writing is a social history of the first two decades of South African democracy.
TB rates are at unprecedented high levels in sub Saharan Africa [2].
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.
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.
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.
The research deals with the asymmetrical political relations in the world society and their impact on transconstitutional entanglements between legal orders.
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.
Living and non-living systems are strikingly different.
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.
The emerging infectious disease (EID) crisis encompasses all pathogens affecting humans and the species upon which we depend for survival and socio-economic development.
Thrombosis is closely linked to aneurysm evolution.
Rebel groups often create governments when they control territory during civil war.
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.
The focus of the 2017 seminar under this project is on the theme, Corruption and constitutionalism in Africa: Revisiting control measures and strategies.
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.
This book will address the question of how liberal society attempts to reconcile empire to its values and principles.
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 is a novel of dislocation that seeks to explore and expose the rise of xenophobia in South Africa.
Persons with disabilities (PWDs) constitute 15% of the worlds population.
THIS project is about the discipline of history and the intergenerational transfer of trauma in South Africa.
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).
Urbanization is restructuring the nature of cities, particularly in South Africa (SA) and Africa, where informality is on the rise.
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.
Professor Ian Goldin is the Director of the Oxford Martin School and Professor of Globalisation and Development at the University of Oxford.
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.
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.
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.
The terms globe and world are used interchangeably in the contemporary discussion about legal globalizations.
This project will explore a new theory of adaptation that I have termed Life in the Transients (LIT).
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.
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.
Supercapacitors are devices that reside on the border between capacitor technology and battery systems and are utilized in transportation and infrastructure applications.
Recently Cabello (arXiv:1509.04711) introduced a taxonomy of quantum interpretations with regard to what they attempt to say of reality.
Although the current global age in its most crucial structural orientations, has turned viscerally anti-Fanonian, Fanon remains, especially among the intellectual left, a key intellectual and moral authority still sponsoring the seeming perpetuation of the anti-colonial/decolonial outlook not just in Africa but in the rest of the Third World.
Various vegetable crops are grown in the southwest part of Ethiopia.
Contamination of drinking water with chemical and biological pollutants is a serious problem of the present century.
South Africa is one of the top destinations in the world for bird watching.
The paper begins with a historical background attempting to provide an African wide perspective unifying the often fragmented contributions of North Africa, South Africa and the rest of the continent.
Biological diversity is intrinsically scale-dependent, and understanding its scaling properties may help us better manage and conserve it.
This project asks how reflections on the female body part called the hymen or maidenhead in early modern English texts (produced from 1500-1700) can illuminate modern debates about the set of modern surgical practices called hymenoplasty.
The unity, integrity, health and prospects of collectives such as states, nations and societies are often imagined in terms of the individual human body.
Since at least the 1980s, historians of Africa have produced a rich and nuanced scholarship on sex and sexuality on the continent.
Water is a limited resource. Water and sanitation are human rights.
After 9/11 The USA declared war on an emotion.
The project enquires into the role of symbolic classification in the construction and reproduction of inequality.
BTK is a cytoplasmic protein-tyrosine kinase, whose corresponding gene was isolated in the early 1990s.
African narratives in both their traditional and contemporary phases apparently extend or re-stage tendencies previously encoded in folklore.
This project (and the book that will follow) is a cultural history of the ARM, the African Resistance Movement, which despite the elevation of its name, was a group of no more than fifty mainly liberal , anti - communist idealists who formed an underground movement in South Africa in 1960 and embarked on a campaign of sabotage aimed at government installations (pylons and railway lines).
Many towns in Kenyas arid and semi-arid lands (and to a lesser extent, sub-humid zones) rely largely or exclusively on groundwater for public and private water supply.
This project forms part of a five year research project that is investigating the role that alternative music communities in South Africa played to imagine and create a social order different from the system of apartheid.
Hemispheric asymmetries play an important role in almost all cognitive functions.
Democracy as an overall model for how societies should be governed must be seen as a remarkable success.
This research project aim is to contribute to the quest for a viable political philosophy for contemporary Africa.
The economics of information has constituted a revolution in economics, providing explanations of phenomena that previously had been unexplained and upsetting longstanding presumptions, including that of market efficiency, with profound implications for economic policy.
1. The scorpion chemosensory organs have a number of unusual properties, making them an intriguing research object for neurobiologists.
Ubuntu is an Nguni word that covers a broad semantic field to signify a sharing that connects humans and typifies all right thinking.
This project is an exploration of the life and memories associated with three key saints of the local Capetonian scene, and most notably Tuan Guru, set against a larger story of forced labour and exile in the Indian Ocean from the eighteenth to the twentieth centuries.
By examining a number of literary works which were published in both Afrikaans and English in the past 25 years in the context of recent studies of the question of translation and world literature, this project will attempt to answer such questions as: Does translation of literary works into major languages represent a danger for the future of minor languages?
There is robust evidence that health promotion in the school setting can increase children’s knowledge and change their choice of health related behaviors for the better.
Part of a larger study evaluating the contributions of historical geographers to understanding the settler colonies of the British Empire, the work at STIAS will focus on historical geography in South Africa, beginning with the work of NC Pollock and S Agnew (1963), and focusing in particular on the contributions of AJ Christopher, Professor Emeritus at Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University, who published a number of atlases, books, and articles on the development of the country and its human geography during the apartheid era.
The 11th of the seventeen Sustainable Development Goals adopted on 25 September 2015 (the new sustainable development agenda), focuses on the pursuit of cities that are inclusive, safe, resilient and sustainable.
In a 2008, post-Polokwane missive to ANC president, Jacob Zuma, declaring his refusal to campaign for the African National Congress (ANC) in the upcoming 2009 general election, recently-deposed South African President Thabo Mbeki famously declared:… I find it strange in the extreme that today cadres of our movement attach the label of a cult of personality to me, and indeed publicly declare a determination to kill to defend your own cause, the personal interests of the personality, Jacob Zuma!
The principal aim of this period of writing and research is to complete a chapter from a short book, tentatively entitled Marx@Marikana: Reading Marx in South Africa today.
The Okavango Delta, Botswana is a World Heritage Site and an international treasure.
The regulation of biotechnology is determined by a number of often conflicting legal values and social-economic interests.
Sigmund Freud in 1899, reported that the dream metaphor often provides the key to understanding the psychological origin of emotional distress (‘neurosis’), and Walter Cannon in 1915 elucidated the body’s response to emotional stress in cats, called the ‘fight or flight response’.
This project examines the complexity and multiplicity of Christian contributions to politics of homosexuality and LGBT (lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender) rights in Africa.
The 19th and the beginning of the 20th century have left a dark legacy behind: world wars, genocides, civil wars, dictatorships and terrorist attacks with millions of people tortured, persecuted, displaced, dead, or disappeared without a trace.
Complexity is possibly the most relevant scientific idea that emerged during the past decades.
Spider webs are superb examples of functional structures that emerge as the animal builds her web.
Under the broad theme of constitution-building in Africa, the focus of this project will be on the issue of decentralisation and constitutionalism in Africa.
The simultaneous unity and plurality of law was a central topic for Hans Kelsen.
My project examines the possibility of reconfiguring conventional literary analytic practice by crafting critical approaches which are less invested in rendering texts ‘transparent’ than in approximating, embracing and extending the transgressive energies and insights of creative texts.
Endocrine disruptors are chemicals that interfere with the body’s hormonal system, adversely affecting reproduction, neurology and immunology in humans and animals.
Global water policy highlights the need to extend affordable and safe water to underserved communities, in addition to fostering participatory water governance.
Human history over the millennia has been shaped by major social transformation processes.
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.
I plan to write a novel based on the life and works of Thomas Pringle, popularly known as the Father of South African poetry.
This project addresses the idea of global citizenship and common humanity in South Africa today.
The project aims at campaigning for the acceptance of companion animal vaccination and its disease prevention aspects, thereby increasing the visibility of veterinary research in the One Medicine-One Health perspective.
It is well recognised that there is growing economic and political interaction between sub-Saharan Africa and states from the East Asian region.
Universal health coverage and the growing burden of chronic illness are both at the top of the global health agenda.
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.
In Europe with a history of religious wars and big national churches, freedom of religion is often understood as freedom from, at least from institutional religion.
Natural resource management (NRM) involves efforts by different institutions to formulate and implement laws, policies and legislation to ensure viable use of natural resources.
Optical amplifiers are essential in optical communication systems that serve as the backbone of the Internet.
The South African Food system is designed to ensure that the country’s population is well-nourished, that farming is a viable livelihood and that the environment is protected.
This research examines the idea of opposition in African politics against the backdrop of problems inherent in the democratization process in contemporary Africa with a view to analyzing their dimensions and implications for the development of the continent and her peoples.
The purpose of this research project is to (further) explore aspects of South Africa’s African policy over the past two decades, specifically within the frameworks of its African Agenda and its white paper on foreign policy, The Diplomacy of Ubuntu.
How do parliaments think about sexualities, sexual citizenship, sexual rights and sexual norms over time and space within the African continent?
The challenge of economic growth for middle income countries includes technological upgrading, which, in turn, demands expansion and improvement of the higher education and science system.
Time at STIAS will be devoted to the final updating and revision of a syllabus entitled The International Protection of Human Rights: A Critical Approach, which was used in 2015 at the College of Law of the National University of Taiwan in Taipei, to be published as a book in 2016 by Intersentia (Antwerp, Cambridge, Portland).
The South African flora and fauna have been studied by a number of Swedish naturalists the last 250 years.
While at STIAS Jane Taylor will be launching creative/intellectual projects involving object theatre and puppetry arts.
After writing five novels, a collection of short stories and a musical, which largely drew from South Africas troubled past, I will use the period at STIAS to write a semi-autobiographical (or novelized) account of the use of technology or forensic science to make sense of our past and of our future.
This project is part of a longer-term research agenda, which interrogates the legitimacy and authority of international criminal law.
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 splitting of one biological species into two, speciation, is a central process in evolutionary biology.
Patients with homozygous beta thalassemia have complex clinical complications due to the need for blood transfusions and iron overload.
My project examines the idea of cosmopolitan solidarity in South Africa.
Alternative methods of justice, such as Truth and Reconciliation Commissions and amnesties, have been used in the aftermath of several conflicts, including in the wake of Apartheid.
In a 2008, post-Polokwane missive to ANC president, Jacob Zuma, declaring his refusal to campaign for the African National Congress (ANC) in the upcoming 2009 general election, recently-deposed South African President Thabo Mbeki famously declared:… I find it strange in the extreme that today cadres of our movement attach the label of a cult of personality to me, and indeed publicly declare a determination to kill to defend your own cause, the personal interests of the personality, Jacob Zuma!
My overall research interest is about societal cohesion, what keeps a society together.
In this project, I engage with the concept of ‘wildness’, initially in the very problematic ways in which it is often used, but then more substantially in its possibilities for (re)thinking human, plant and animal identities, including in ways which decentre the human.
For a Latin American publisher I have undertaken to compile an anthology of world poetry.
The global population of forcibly displaced persons due to armed conflict is about 44 million, comprising about 15.
Recent years have seen a resurgence of interest in pragmatism, both historically and in its contemporary form, particularly as it has developed through the work of Bob Brandom, Huw Price, Michael Williams and others.
Role-playing on stage, e.g. an actor playing Shakespeare’s Richard III, clearly differs from role-playing in real life, e.
The main project that I have engaged in at STIAS since 2013 falls under the general theme, African Constitutionalism: Comparative Perspectives.
During the past decade, an extraordinary disconnect regarding the futures of states in sub-Saharan Africa has emerged: ‘Aspiring Africa, the world’s fastest growing continent’ (in the words of The Economist on its title page), on the one hand, and, in the words of an economist, ‘informalised and subsistence Africa, with swathes of survivalist pockets of existence, remains the overriding economic reality’ in these states, on the other.
Recent political and judicial battles over the rights of sexual minorities in East Africa have witnessed the introduction of new constricting legislation, judicial interventions and civil society action both in favour and against the expansion of the ‘right to love.
Following up on the publication of Sounding the Cape, Music, Identity and Politics in South Africa ( African Minds, Somerset West, 2013) researched and published with support by STIAS, this project will focus on two song repertoires emblematic of Cape Town’s music: the Moppies (or comic songs) and the Nederlandslierdjies.
This project asks the question: under what circumstances, with what political resources, and under what kinds of assumptions are women able to make claims on the state to address gender inequalities?
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.
Current crises can hardly be reduced to fiscal or economic phenomena; they seem to be much deeper, including the crisis of democracy per se.
Advances in synthetic biology have brought the long-standing ‘Origin of Life’ problem once again into prominence.
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 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.
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.
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.
We are the luckiest generation in human history.
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.
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.
The study of sign languages contributes to our understanding of the human language faculty.
Make cities and human settlements inclusive, safe, resilient and sustainable is the 11th goal of the draft Sustainable Development Goals.
How do we live? How does our immediate infrastructure work, as house, and home?
Languages change and adapt as they exist in the minds and practices of multilinguals.
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.
Obesity is a medical condition defined as the excessive accumulation of fat that presents a risk to health.
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.
The inclusion of a clause protecting the deprivation of property in South Africa’s Constitution was controversial.
The history of science and of scientific knowledge in South Africa is a growing field of interest but it remains relatively fragmented.
Stroke care represents one of the major global unmet challenges of the global health care system.
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.
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.
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.
The project continues and wants to bring to an end a project that has been started at STIAS in March 2013.
Social diagnostics gained some currency in the South African context through the Diagnostic Report (2011) produced by the National Planning Commission.
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.
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 world over and across time, the arts remain vitally important in fostering resilience and creating channels for reconciliation after conflict.
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.
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.
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.
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.
This research proposes that there is an ‘African metropolis’ that has been struggling for space and ascendancy in the City of Nairobi.
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.
A mid-term research programme focusing on the ideational foundations of social policies beyond traditional Northern welfare will be fleshed out.
The idea of combining and possibly merging ‘ethnography’ and ‘fiction’ emanates from my research on literature’s role in the transition processes of South Africa and Argentina (Fiction and Truth in Transition : Writing the present past in South Africa and Argentina,2012), which brought me in the end, to my own surprise, to the crossroads of Literature and Anthropology.
During my time at STIAS I will collaborate with Stellenbosch faculty in both the humanities and the sciences to examine ancient Egyptian mummies, particularly those belonging to animals.
The future is incorporated into all phenomena, conscious or unconscious, physical or ideational, as anticipation, from those forms of anticipation that are observed, for instance, in a tree that loses its leaves in the Autumn to human planning that colonizes the future inspired by imaginary futures.
There is major controversy in America today over global warming.
Today ethics have to be formulated for pluralistic societies that encompass a variety of religions and worldviews including the secular option.
Work at STIAS will be devoted to additional contributions for English and Chinese translations of the book Ethics.
In 1972, the British scholar Roger Cardinal coined the term outsider art as an English equivalent of art brut, French artist Jean Dubuffet’s term for artists creating extraordinary work outside the boundaries of mainstream western art.
The issue of sustainable energy supply is a global problem for pursuing future endeavours in the energy area.
Work at STIAS will be the final draft of four lectures which were delivered in 2013 at the Centre for Indian Studies in Africa (CISA) in Johannesburg under the general topic of Decolonial Thoughts.
This project involves an in-depth analysis of human behaviour from an evolutionary perspective, as a basis for integrating our modern understanding of behavioural psychology with its neurobiological basis.
Many populations of wild organisms exist as scattered populations spread across landscapes.
The archives of Nobel Prizes have been used for the production of two books, Nobel Prizes and Life Sciences(2010) and Nobel Prizes and Nature’s Surprises (2013).
The race between education and technology is a key factor in determining earnings inequality.
Elie Metchnikoff, Nobel laureate in Medicine and Physiology in 1908, is the father of innate immunity, the rapid, but non-specific defense against infection.
The project is about completing the writing of a book entitled Emerging Statistical Renaissance in Africa.
Obesity is closely linked the development of type 2 diabetes (T2D), a leading cause of death worldwide.
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.
Culture, religion, gender, ethnicity, race and history influence processes of identity formation and social relationships.
Older populations are expanding all over the world.
A book is being developed which takes into account multiple objectives of providing enough food at household and individual level, an acceptable monetary income and sustainable production under the constraints of limited access to resources (land, credit, water, technology, information, level of education and more), dependency on remittances and social security programs, and limited access to markets.
Todays society is facing a series of new challenges.
Work on a new single-author book with a working title of Garment of Destiny will be started.
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?
In the light of the political impasse gripping the country, this study investigates the ideas that made democratic South Africa, through the largely unexplored interaction between its journalists and politicians.
Apart from making important contributions to morbidity and mortality world-wide (WHO), injuries as a health problem have special characteristics (Byass et al.
This project concerns methods to obtain higher spatial resolution and improved contrast when imaging thick biological samples – a classical and generic bio-imaging problem.
The need for environmentally benign methodology to perform reactions in organic chemistry is continuously increasing, in order to minimize health and climate effects caused by the chemical industry.
Africa, once considered the breadbasket of the world, is now strongly affected by problems with food insecurity and malnutrition.
At the beginning of the 21th century mankind is confronted with a number of global challenges.
The Greek myth of the European Kingfisher has inspired many poets and writers and left deep traces in European culture.
It is planned to begin a book called Listening during the stay at STIAS which will present, in a form accessible to readers with diverse interests, a method of psychological inquiry that was developed with graduate students at Harvard and taught for many years.
Stories of lonely death (kodokushi) are commonplace in what is considered an era of increasing isolation and social disconnectedness in post-Bubble Japan.
A book about Togolese who apply for the US Diversity Visa lottery will be completed.
The prevailing macroeconomic frameworks in African countries may be generally characterized as a do no harm approach to policy.
Roughly 30% of global energy consumption today is friction - a colossal loss.
This project will focus on a widespread myth, namely that Sweden is a country mainly without corruption and involved internationally in corruption only because of the demands from corrupt governments and people in the rest of the world.
This project will contribute to a greater comparative understanding of state-customary knowledge and its challenges in Africa by way of a study of the experience of the post-apartheid State in this regard.
This seminar conducted by Manuel Castells is a follow-up to his previous STIAS seminar Informational Development and Human Development: South Africa in a Global Perspective (24–26 August 2011).
Appearing very early in the history of photography and pervasive throughout the world, school-class photos, like report cards and diplomas, confirm group belonging and exposure to a process of educational acculturation and socialization.
Humanity interacts with the dynamics of the biosphere in new ways.
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.
The project at STIAS will involve writing a research book aimed at closing a glaring scientific gap in the area of batch chemical process.
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 project focuses on the interdisciplinary possibilities of law to constitute a discourse of transformation for post-apartheid South Africa.
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.
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.
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 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.
How society chooses to use land and allocate resources drives economic development and environmental quality.
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.
Work on the book ‘The Scientific Method in Biology and Biomedicine’ will be continued.
The project is concerned with vaccinology in the public eye.
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.
The sustainable management of global water resources is one of the most pressing environmental challenges of the 21st century.
The main project I undertook at STIAS was a collection of short fictions called 101 Detectives.
Modern technology makes use of nearly the entire periodic table of the elements.
The general focus is on examining critical issues affecting the promotion of constitutionalism in Africa from a comparative perspective.
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?
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.
It is planned to use the time at STIAS to find out whether something like an African type of constitutionalism is developing or whether constitutionalism in Africa develops more or less along the lines of Western constitutionalism.
The target and at the same time the tool of the project is the conceptualisations and imaginations of the social and the economic in various African languages.
A joint book manuscript ‘Conjuring majorities: life, infrastructure, and relational politics in the urban South’ (with AbdouMaliq Simone) will be completed.
This proposal forms part of a larger project on economic and social rights in general, and the right to housing in particular.
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.
After fifty years of writing plays the forthcoming stay at STIAS will be used to make a second attempt at writing a novel.
In this study the theory of flexibly-bounded rationality which is an extension to the theory of bounded rationality is studied.
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.
It is often believed that in the past, women were confined to the home and supported by their husbands (the male breadwinner model).
While at STIAS a novel will be researched and written.
The purpose of the project is to analyse why teaching has evolved only in the line leading to Homo sapiens.
The 20th century will be seen by historians as the century of growth.
During the past decades it became evident that at least 21% of the global cancer incidence is linked to viral, bacterial and parasitic infections.
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 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?
Over the last three centuries western legal thinking has been driven by notions of nation-states, national legal systems and classical forms of logic.
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.
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.
Grassland systems have been in focus for a long time due to their ecological, socioeconomic and cultural importance.
Although Nietzsche is admittedly one of the most anti-Christian thinkers in the history of philosophy, this does certainly not mean that Christianity has not left traces in his thinking.
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.
This is a writing project that would examine South African politics in exile and how that had an impact on the relationship of political parties inside the country.
This project seeks to contribute to our understanding of the moral values that underpin procedural rights in criminal trials, with a particular focus on the sentencing process.
The concept of chaos in classical mechanics is well defined.
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.
South African literary studies has, in a sense, lost its intellectual project.
A second edition of the book (entitled Biochemical Oscillations and Cellular Rhythms.
This research draws upon a general theoretical interest in organisation outside of organisations paired with an ambition to better understand the formation of criminal organising or cooperation.
The main purpose of this project is to analyse South Africa’s Foreign Policy towards its own region and towards Latin America (Brazil and Argentina) on a comparative basis and to discuss its role as a regional-middle-emerging power: Leadership?
The apartheid regime of South Africa persistently abstained from ratifying any of the major human rights treaties elaborated under the aegis of the United Nations after 1948.
The underlying circuitry for somatic sensation remains a mystery.
The project involves the writing of a major monograph, commissioned by the Brenthurst Press in Johannesburg, on the history of astronomy and navigation at the Cape of Good Hope from the late fifteenth century until the middle of the nineteenth century - encompassing times when European expeditions came to the Cape to study the southern sky.
The STIAS Effects of Race project project will address major gaps in our knowledge on race thinking and racialism.
The research project deals with the impact of a severe global economic crisis on political parties in representative democracies.
This project involves the writing of a rather particular anthropological history of contemporary India.
Over the last century, several waves of democracy have swept over the globe, bringing representative democracy to places where it seemed inconceivable.
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.
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.
This investigation follows up on two reports that appeared in 2008 and 2009.
While South Africa is food secure at a national level this is not the case for many households.
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.
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