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The Truth About Crime
Many African postcolonies are haunted by the spectre of: the waning efficacy of law enforcement, the ambiguity of authority, and the apparent abandonment of subjects by the state.
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Reparations for Victims of Apartheid
In spite of the increasing recognition in international law of the need for reparations for victims of serious human rights violations, the overwhelming majority of victims of Apartheid has not been compensated by the South African government and has not had access to legal avenues for the payment of such reparations.
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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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Global Right, Global White: South Africa in the Political Imaginary of the Radical Right
This project focuses on the unique position of South Africa and the Afrikaner minority within the narratives and imaginaries of contemporary transnational radical right-wing movements.
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Defining Humanity through Water and Sanitation
My project focuses on water and sanitation through the technologies that provide them, as a highly specific material index for abstract sensibilities about what constitutes a proper and dignified human life.
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Slabbert: A Man on a Mission
Grundlingh, Albert. (2021). Slabbert: A Man on a Mission. Jonathan Ball Publishers. https://booklounge.co.za/product/slabbert-a-man-on-a-mis...
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Defining Humanity through Water and Sanitation
My project focuses on water and sanitation through the technologies that provide them, as a highly specific material index for abstract sensibilities about what constitutes a proper and dignified human life.
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Cyril’s Choices
Matisonn, John. 2019. Cyril’s Choices. Missing Ink. http://missingink.co.za/cyrils-choices/
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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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Race, decolonization, and global citizenship in South Africa
Okeja, Uchenna. 2019. Race, decolonization, and global citizenship in South Africa. Journal of the African Literature Association, 1–2. http...
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Building a public service that can deliver change
Raenette Taljaard. 2010. Building a public service that can deliver change. In Neeta Misra-Dexter and Judith February (editors). Testing Dem...
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Vereeniging: Die onvoltooide vrede
Leon Wessels. 2010. Vereeniging: Die onvoltooide vrede. Cape Town: Umuzi/Random House Struik. 367 pp
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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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Academic Freedom in a Democratic South Africa (Essays and Interviews on Higher Education and the Humanities)
John Higgins. 2013. Academic Freedom in a Democratic South Africa (Essays and Interviews on Higher Education and the Humanities). Wits Unive...
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The Politics of Principle
Theunis Roux. 2013. The Politics of Principle. The First South African Constitutional Court, 1995 – 2005. Cambridge University Press, 433 + ...
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Declassified
Gerhard Maré. 2014. Declassified. Jacana Media (Auckland Park, 200 pp). ISBN: 978-1-4314-2020-99
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Triumphs and Heartaches: A Courageous Journey by South African Patriots
Mangena, Mosibudi. 2015. Triumphs and Heartaches: A Courageous Journey by South African Patriots. Johannesburg: Pan Macmillan. http://panmac...
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God, Spies and Lies: Finding South Africa’s Future through Its Past
Matisonn, John. 2015. God, Spies and Lies: Finding South Africa’s Future through Its Past. Cape Town: Missing Ink. http://missingink.co.za/g...
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Die Suid-Afrikaanse Staat en Ekonomie voor en na 1994: het die luiperd sy kolle verander?
Bekker, Simon. 2016. Die Suid-Afrikaanse Staat en Ekonomie voor en na 1994: het die luiperd sy kolle verander? LitNet Akademies. https://www...
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Race, Decolonization, and Global Citizenship in South Africa
Eze, Chielozona. 2018. Race, Decolonization, and Global Citizenship in South Africa. University of Rochester Press. https://boydellandbrewer...
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Compensation Through Expropriation without Compensation? Land Reform and the Future of Redistributive Justice in South Africa
The decision by the South African Parliament in February 2018 to review the constitutional property clause possibly allowing for expropriation without compensation has fervently brought the land question back into public debate.
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Good policy; bad policy
This project proposes to examine three key policies, one in each ministry, in the form of a memoir on how decisions were taken and implemented.
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Land Restitution and the Moral Modernity of the New South African State
The purpose of this project is to conclude a book-in-progress, entitled Land Restitution and the Moral Modernity of the New South African State.
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APOCALYPSE 2016-2019: Decline of Jacob Zuma, Rise of South Africa?
The three years 2016 to 2019 will change South Africa more significantly than any other time since the dawn of democracy in 1994.
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Cafe de Move On Blues
In Cafe de Move On Blues I plan to look at people like me, both English and Afrikaans whites, across the country, in an attempt to say who they are (and who they think they are) and how they react to life in the new South Africa.
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We Don't Need Another Hero
In a 2008, post-Polokwane missive to ANC president, Jacob Zuma, declaring his refusal to campaign for the African National Congress (ANC) in the upcoming 2009 general election, recently-deposed South African President Thabo Mbeki famously declared:… I find it strange in the extreme that today cadres of our movement attach the label of a cult of personality to me, and indeed publicly declare a determination to kill to defend your own cause, the personal interests of the personality, Jacob Zuma!
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Alienation, protest and the idea of a manifesto
The principal aim of this period of writing and research is to complete a chapter from a short book, tentatively entitled Marx@Marikana: Reading Marx in South Africa today.
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“We Don’t Need Another Hero”
In a 2008, post-Polokwane missive to ANC president, Jacob Zuma, declaring his refusal to campaign for the African National Congress (ANC) in the upcoming 2009 general election, recently-deposed South African President Thabo Mbeki famously declared:… I find it strange in the extreme that today cadres of our movement attach the label of a cult of personality to me, and indeed publicly declare a determination to kill to defend your own cause, the personal interests of the personality, Jacob Zuma!
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God, Spies and Lies: How journalists and politicians fought South Africa’s war of ideas, 1800-2015
In the light of the political impasse gripping the country, this study investigates the ideas that made democratic South Africa, through the largely unexplored interaction between its journalists and politicians.
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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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On Our Own
This is a writing project that would examine South African politics in exile and how that had an impact on the relationship of political parties inside the country.