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Moral Economies in African Muslim Societies
The project proposes to study and bring attention to contemporary moral economies in African Muslim societies that are overlooked.
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Jurisprudence of the SA constitutional court – a comparative study
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.
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History wars and Indigenous Rights
Indigenous rights claims remain a central, unresolved human rights issue in Australia, Canada, New Zealand, South Africa and the United States.
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Beyond Extraversion: Ways towards Intellectual Self-reliance
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.
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Keorapetse Kgositsile & the Black Arts Movement
Phalafala, Uhuru Portia. 2024. Keorapetse Kgositsile & the Black Arts Movement. Boydell & Brewer. https://boydellandbrewer.com/97818...
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(Im)possible Monuments? Gukurahundi and the Politics of Memorialisation in Zimbabwe
Ncube, Gibson. 2024. (Im)possible Monuments? Gukurahundi and the Politics of Memorialisation in Zimbabwe. In J. S. Sanni & M. Z. Phiri (...
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From Africans to Blacks: The Making of a Racial Identity in Contemporary France
The purpose of this project is to analyze the construction of black identity in 21st - century France.
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(In)visible Man: Tracing Ralph Ellison’s Legacy to South Africa
Phiri, Aretha. 2021. (In)visible Man: Tracing Ralph Ellison’s Legacy to South Africa. In T. Roynon & M. C. Conner (Eds.), Global Ralph E...
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PAGASA
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.
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Expanding Available Futures: Ideological Contestation in Angola’s Emerging Higher Education Sector
Auerbach, Jess. 2022. Expanding Available Futures: Ideological Contestation in Angola’s Emerging Higher Education Sector. Comparative Educat...
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The politics of blood and the memory of the martyrs: an inquiry into the political legacy of Bantu Stephen Biko
In September 1977, Bantu Stephen Biko was murdered by the South African security police.
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Popular Sovereignty versus State Sovereignty: Haiti, Popular Equality and the Birth of the Neocolonial State
Neocosmos, Michael. 2021. Popular Sovereignty versus State Sovereignty: Haiti, Popular Equality and the Birth of the Neocolonial State. Jour...
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Decoloniality, Ecology and Sustainability
Deifelt, Wanda. 2021. Decoloniality, Ecology and Sustainability. International Academy of Practical Theology – Conference Series, Vol. 2, 22...
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A History of South African Literature - Afrikaans Literature since 1930
The third volume concluding my comprehensive, novel history of South-African/Afrikaans literature explores the period from the 1930s onwards.
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The construction of the Shona subject as historical, contemporary, personal and social in Zimbabwe: the impact of the social fabric in the construction of the individual
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.
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In the shadow of the Citadel: Haitian national patrimony and vernacular concerns
Geller, Pamela L. and Louis Herns Marcelin. 2019. In the shadow of the Citadel: Haitian national patrimony and vernacular concerns. Journal ...
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Piet on peat: the Irish romance of Afrikaner anti-imperialism
Bill Nasson. 2009. Piet on peat: the Irish romance of Afrikaner anti-imperialism. In “The British Empire and Its Contested Pasts”, Historica...
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Historical Memory in Africa
Mamadou Diawarwa, Bernard C Lategan & Jörn Rüsen (editors). 2010. Historical Memory in Africa. Dealing with the past, reaching for the f...
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Are Trout South African (Stories of Fish, People and Places)
Duncan Brown. 2013. Are Trout South African (Stories of Fish, People and Places). Picador Africa, 256 pp. ISBN 978-1-77010-302-3.
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Les beautés de l’ambivalence en dispute, les nederlandsliedjies du Cap (Afrique du Sud)
Martin, Denis-Constant. 2015. Les beautés de l’ambivalence en dispute, les nederlandsliedjies du Cap (Afrique du Sud). Cahiers d’ethnomusico...
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On Decoloniality: Concepts, Analytics, Praxis
Mignolo, Walter D. and Catherine E. Walsh. 2018. On Decoloniality: Concepts, Analytics, Praxis. Duke University Press. https://www.dukeupres...
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In/appropriate Personae: Contemporary Culture and the Politics of Appropriation
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.
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Untermenschen: Nietzsche on slavery – and what it means to be human
Does modern capitalism produce new forms of slavery?
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Translation of the Amharic Novel, Tobiya (1907) into English
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.
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PostAfricanism vs Fanonism
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.
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Global Citizenship and the Practice of Being Human. South African Visions and the legacy of Enlightenment
This project addresses the idea of global citizenship and common humanity in South Africa today.
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Rethinking Sex in Uganda’s Parliament
How do parliaments think about sexualities, sexual citizenship, sexual rights and sexual norms over time and space within the African continent?
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The work and legacy of Sesotho writer Thomas Mofolo
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.
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Decolonial thoughts
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.
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Closing the Narrative Loop: Indian and South African Constitutionalism in the Age of Reflexive Globalisation
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.
