Project
All too real: race thinking and thinking about race in post-1994 South Africa
The project is to work towards completion of a book under the working title of ‘All too real: race thinking and thinking about race in South Africa’.
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From first-generation students to the second: An inter-generational study of post-apartheid South African higher education
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.
Publication
Apartheid Remains
Chari, Sharad. 2024. Apartheid Remains. Duke University Press. https://www.dukeupress.edu/apartheid-remains
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Aesthetics of Trauma: Transgenerational Memory and the Poetics of Repair
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.
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Unsettled Futures: Precarity and the Project of Post-Apartheid in the Countryside
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.
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The Morality of Martiality: Beyond Good and Evil in Liberation Struggles
This is an interdisciplinary research project on the morality of martiality.
Publication
The was, the is and the might-have-been: Political leadership in post-apartheid South Africa
Bill Nasson. 2008. The was, the is and the might-have-been: Political leadership in post-apartheid South Africa. Journal of African History,...
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The ‘Born Frees’: The Prospects for Generational Change in Post-apartheid South Africa
Mattes, Robert. 2012. The ‘Born Frees’: The Prospects for Generational Change in Post-apartheid South Africa. AUSTRALIAN JOURNAL OF POLITICA...
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Liberation betrayed by bloodshed
Njabulo S. Ndebele. 2013. Liberation betrayed by bloodshed. Social Dynamics, 39 (1), 111-114. doi: 10.1080/02533952.2013.777558
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Transcultural Affinity: Cosmopolitan Imagination in South Africa
My project examines the idea of cosmopolitan solidarity in South Africa.
