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Life: autonomy in evolution
This project consists in writing a monograph about the irreducible and pervasive complexity of the natural world (the biological world, in particular), and about the importance of becoming increasingly aware of this intrinsic complexity, in continuous development and evolution (more so when combined with the artificial worlds recently created by humans), if we are to handle adequately future challenges for science and society.
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Transdisciplinary thinking through food in South Africa
The communicative, semiotic, creative and relational meanings surrounding food expand understandings of power dynamics, identity-constitution and discursive perceptions of being human.
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The challenges and options in relation to water security for groundwater-dependent urban settlements located in fragile regions of Kenya
Many towns in Kenyas arid and semi-arid lands (and to a lesser extent, sub-humid zones) rely largely or exclusively on groundwater for public and private water supply.
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Writing Across Borders – In Praise of Impurity
The idea of combining and possibly merging ‘ethnography’ and ‘fiction’ emanates from my research on literature’s role in the transition processes of South Africa and Argentina (Fiction and Truth in Transition : Writing the present past in South Africa and Argentina,2012), which brought me in the end, to my own surprise, to the crossroads of Literature and Anthropology.
