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Discipline of the Screen: Cinema and public order in South Africa
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.
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The State versus Neville Alexander and ten others: The causes and consequences of a political trial
This book project concerns the 1963-64 trial of Neville Alexander and ten other members of the National Liberation Front (NLF).
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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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Wine, Temperance and South African Connectivity c.1900 to the Present
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.
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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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Gandhi’s Printing Press: Global Trajectories of Print Culture in the Indian Ocean
During his South African years (1893-1914), Mohandas Gandhi began fashioning his world-changing ideas on satyagraha/‘passive resistance’.
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Moments of awakening: Apartheid and the making of a psychologist
Moments of Awakening, is the last project that will bring to completion the trilogy of life writing projects initiated in 2005.
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Interpreting the life of Chief Albert Luthuli
This is a study of the legacies and meanings of Chief Luthuli’s life in history and today.
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Dealing with the Past (Historical memory)
Why do some individuals or societies transcend a divisive past and why do some remain prisoners of their own past?
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“S'obashaya Ngamatye”: Women and Sixty Years of the Armed Struggle in South Africa
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).
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Jan Bouws and the Instituut vir Volksmusiek (1960-1972) at Stellenbosch University
The proposed project looks into the activities of the Instituut vir Volksmusiek at Stellenbosch University.
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Crossing Boundaries in South Africa’s Divided Cities: how conviviality, creativity and co-operation helped undermine apartheid
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.
