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Playing at/against power: Histories of Trauma and Abuse in South African Music-Pedagogical Spaces
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.
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The Boxing Economy of the Eastern Cape
What is the link between the national formal economy on the one hand, and on the other, local community based economic and leisure cultures, which may have been largely self-sustaining but interminably precarious?
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Nelson Mandela – About Tolerance and Leadership (a biography)
The project will involve the final editing and fine-tuning of the main body of the book Nelson Mandela – Tolerance and Leadership.
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Uses of Literature
The value of literature is minimised in the functioning of society.
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Double Vision
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.
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The politics and poetics of old age: Drawing on Law and Literature to assess the (cultural) legitimacy of African Union norms on the rights of older persons
A critical investigation of post-apartheid life under a transformed legal, political and social order from the perspective of women.
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White Women Engaging Black Lives Matter: Problematizing Solidarity in a Time of Identity Politics
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.
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Reading black middle-classness
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.
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Planetary Prejudices: Race, Migration, and Technology in the New Global Order
Taking racism as the engine of capitalism, the study of racial capitalism offers a potent framework for understanding how racism structures modern life.
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Rethinking South African Literature(s)
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.
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Dog-human correlations in post-Soviet and post-apartheid literature and film
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.
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A Social History of Democratic South African Told in Nine Lives
The book I am writing is a social history of the first two decades of South African democracy.
