Faculty of Arts: Recent submissions
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Mapping Urban Food Security in Delft: A Bottom Up Perspective
(University of the Western Cape, 2019)Food security is a complicated phenomenon that consists of the intersections of food and people, and the cultures that people create around food. In general, food security research is concerned with how people access ... -
Representations of gender, race and sexuality in selected English-medium South African magazines, 2003-2005
(University of the Western Cape, 2007)In this thesis, I explore representations of gender, race and sexuality in a select group of South African magazines - Men's Health, FHM, Blink, True Love, Femina and Fair Lady - between 2003 and 2005. From a ... -
A study of the Socio-Economic Integration of Highly-Skilled Nigerian Migrants in Cape Town
(University of the Western Cape, 2019)Migration is an important topic, not only for researchers in South Africa, but also for policymakers and the media. It is an issue at the top of the national and international agenda. In the debate on migration and the ... -
Reading and writing across cultures: Using a social literacies approach to account for the experiences of Libyan students in South African higher education
(University of the Western Cape, 2020)Internationalisation or the “process of integrating an international/intercultural dimension into the teaching, research and service functions of a higher education institution” (Knight 1997: 8) has become an important ... -
The representations of Sojourner Truth in The Narrative of Sojourner Truth
(University of the Western Cape, 2020)I read representations of Sojourner Truth in her Spiritual Narrative, The Narrative of Sojourner Truth with a focus on the portrayal of her unconventional character, through a close analysis of language, structure, photographs ... -
Called and Queer Exploring the lived experiences of queer clergy in the Methodist Church of Southern Africa
(university of western cape, 2020)In South Africa anti-queer attitudes are propped up by religious moral claims and by strong assertions that queer sexualities are un-African and a secular Western import. This study contributes to the growing body of ... -
The concept of the Sufi Saintly Miracle: A Literary Approach
(University of Western cape, 2020)study analyses the concept of al-Karāmah al-Sūfīyah (the Sufi Saintly Miracle) in both its religious and literary dimensions. The researcher will shed more light on this genre of narrative literary phenomena by developing ... -
Climate variability: Human management response to environmental changes in Touws River valley and Makolokwe
(University of the Western Cape, 2020)Climate has been changing significantly around the globe; hence climate variability is of great interest to researchers. The changes in climate have caused variances in rainfall and temperature, both elements of paramount ... -
A visual struggle for Mozambique. Revisiting narratives, interpreting photographs (1850-1930)
(University of the Western Cape, 2020)‘A Visual Struggle for Mozambique. Revisiting narratives, interpreting photographs (1850 – 1930)’ is a study that requires an engagement with the historiography of the Portuguese empire, with reference to Mozambique. ... -
Social and political history of Wollo Province in Ethiopia: 1769-1916
(University of the Western Cape, 2020)Wollo, formerly referred to as ―Bete Amhara,‖ refers to a region of Amharic-speaking Christians. It was one of the oldest provinces of Ethiopia; located in the north-eastern part of Ethiopia at the cross- roads of the Red ... -
The role of the academic library in supporting postgraduate students and researchers within the Community and Health Sciences Faculty at the University of the Western Cape
(University of the Western Cape, 2020)Research, aimed at strengthening the economy and driving development, with the view to address South Africa’s numerous challenges and/or advance knowledge, generally, exists in abundance. It has highlighted the crucial ... -
The two natures of Christ: A critical analysis of Dietrich Bonhoeffer's Christology
(University of the Western Cape, 2020)This study will contribute to the substantial corpus of secondary scholarship on the life, ministry, and theology of the German theologian, church leader, and modern-day martyr Dietrich Bonhoeffer (1906-1945). Bonhoeffer’s ... -
Frameworks of representation: A design history of the District Six Museum in Cape Town
(University of the Western Cape, 2020)Since 1994, the District Six Museum, in constructing histories of forced removals from District Six, Cape Town, commenced as a post-apartheid memory project which evolved into a memorial museum. Design has been a central ... -
Discourse analysis of narratives of Malay heritage in gentrified Bo-Kaap, Cape Town
(University of the Western Cape, 2020)Bo-Kaap (BK) is a neighbourhood in Cape Town which has long been home to a predominantly Muslim community with deep ties to the area’s colonial and slave history. In recent years, BK has become a hotbed for developers ... -
From Volksmoeder to Igqira: Towards an intellectual biography of Dr Vera Bührmann (1910-1998)
(University of the Western Cape, 2020)This biography of Dr Vera Bührmann is an intersectional and interdisciplinary investigation of an unusual Afrikaner woman who occupied several unusual places in South African society. Through rigorous archival research and ... -
The study of Andalusian “Muwashaḥāt”: a literary and artistic approach"
(University of the Western Cape, 2020)This thesis aims at presenting a comprehensive study, through which more will be learnt about the art of the Andalusian Muwashaḥāt. This is a study of their artistic structure, types, and poetic purposes. The art of the ... -
A social semiotic analysis of healthcare signage at selected public and private hospitals in the Western Cape
(University of the Western Cape, 2020)The study focuses on the application and use of linguistic landscapes in health institutions. Furthermore, the research is centred on a social semiotic analysis of the healthcare signage at selected public and private ... -
Voortrekker Road palimpsest: A study in social, spatial and temporal flux in the city
(University of the Western Cape, 2020)With its Afrikaner Nationalist past and its current status as an Afropolitan hub, Voortrekker Road simultaneously constitutes a place of separation and transgression, resulting in a quotidian tableau of urban life that ... -
Leopard conservation, tourism and local communities in the Cederberg
(University of the Western Cape, 2019)The Cederberg is increasingly associated with wildlife and ecotourism. Long-established rural communities practising subsistence farming reside in the Cederberg, some on the very boundary of the Cederberg Wilderness Area. ... -
The church and single parenting: perceptions and social support
(University of the Western Cape, 2020)The goal of this study was to investigate how single parenting is perceived within the context of the churches in Kuils River and to establish if any support structures are in place to assist single parents. This research ...
