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Knowledge, Power, and Policy: Constructing a Political Economy of Innovation and Research in Post-Apartheid South Africa
South Africa has long been a leader in scientific research and innovation on the African continent.
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Towards a New Humanism
Why do we simply fail to establish a more human society in South Africa?
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Decolonisation and affective worlds: On the worldmaking potential of shame and rage in the South African “post”-apartheid present
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.
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Queer Transitions: Biographical Space and Black Visuality in the Remains of Apartheid
A quarter century into democratic South Africa, it is a truism that Apartheid’s forms remain present in various ways.
Publication
Shuttling between the suburbs and the township: the new black middle class(es) negotiating class and post-apartheid blackness in South Africa
Ndlovu, Thabisani. 2020. Shuttling between the suburbs and the township: the new black middle class(es) negotiating class and post-apartheid...
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“Incompleteness” and the Quest for Multiple Identities in South Africa
Lategan, Bernard. 2015. “Incompleteness” and the Quest for Multiple Identities in South Africa. Africa Sprectrum 50(3):81–107. http://journa...
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Beyond Shame: The Decline of the “Rainbow Nation.”
Adam, Heribert. 2016. Beyond Shame: The Decline of the “Rainbow Nation.” Pp. 38–43 in Re-engaging the African Diasporas: Pan-Africanism in t...
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Living Together, Living apart? Social Cohesion in a Future South Africa
Ballantine, Christopher, Michael Chapman, Kira Erwin and Gerhard Maré. Eds. 2017. Living Together, Living apart? Social Cohesion in a Future...
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The Café de Move-on Blues: In Search of the New South Africa
Hope, Christopher. 2018. The Café de Move-on Blues: In Search of the New South Africa. Penquin Random House South Africa. https://www.pengui...
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Devil With Blue Eyes
Devil With Blue Eyes is a novel of dislocation that seeks to explore and expose the rise of xenophobia in South Africa.
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South African Literature after the South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission
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.
