Faculty of Arts: Recent submissions
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Domestic space and the performance of identity: the role of house parties in shaping sexuality and space in Cape Town.
(University of the Western Cape, 2023)The public spaces of visibility and interaction within Africa’s ‘gay capital’ of Cape Town are typically associated with attractive men, beautiful beaches, amazing social events, and a lavish lifestyle. Such spaces include ... -
The place of food: a relational analysis of the food environment and sense of place in Khayelitsha.
(University of the Western Cape, 2023)Amongst the numerous changes in contemporary (post-apartheid) South Africa are those related to reorganisation and globalisation of the food environment. Changes in the food environment are evident across the world through ... -
Reimagining urban public space: the impacts of urban renewal in the case of Voortrekker road corridor improvement district in Bellville, Cape Town
(University of the Western Cape, 2023)Cities are economic growth engines that have the ability to increase investment and employment opportunities in the urban space. They allow access to institutions and better services to its population. Because of this ... -
Un/becoming viole(t)nce: ecofeminist entanglements in the (un)making of pitbull/caregiver identities in South Africa
(University of the Western Cape, 2023)Central to this study is the well-established ecofeminist thinking that race, gender, and species are deeply entangled and interconnected in the colonial logic. With this as a starting point, this thesis explores the ... -
The concept of tolerance in the chishtī ṣūfī order
(University of the Western Cape, 2024)The purpose of this thesis is to provide a critical analysis of the concept of tolerance (al-tasāmuḥ) in the Chishtī Ṣūfī Order, one of the main Ṣūfī orders within Islam. The notion of tolerance implies various connotations ... -
Spatial quantification of maize water stress using uva-acquired data in smallholder farms of swayimane in KwaZulu-Natal province.
(University of the Western Cape, 2024)The most important agricultural crop in southern Africa is maize, which grows on variety of environments and serves as an essential food source for the region. Most of the maize is grown in smallholder croplands both for ... -
The role of women in small-scale livestock farming: South African case studies.
(University of the Western Cape, 2024)The importance of gender equality has gained traction in academic and political spheres over the past decade. Agriculture is among the various sectors that have experienced an increase in the empowerment of women's ... -
Preferable to whom? a critique of david benatar’s anti-natalism
(University of the Western Cape, 2024)Can we spare from harm those who will never exist? Well-known anti-natalist David Benatar believes that we can and that we should save future children from the harms of existence by choosing to never have them be brought ... -
Signal to noise: sonic reflections on the South African transition period (1984-1998)
(University of the Western Cape, 2023)This dissertation is set against the backdrop of my involvement with Shifty Studios, a small independent mobile recording studio based in Johannesburg, between 1983 and 1997. Most of this content is drawn from a wide range ... -
Black theology and ubuntu theology: antagonists or soulmates? a black theological perspective
(University of the Western Cape, 2023)This thesis delves into the well-documented link between Black Theology and liberation, particularly in the context of liberation theology in South Africa. Black Theology emerged as a direct response to the inadequacy ... -
Die invloed van Kaaps op die skryfwerk van Afrikaanssprekende leerders
(University of the Western Cape, 2024)Taalkundiges stel al ’n geruime tyd belang in die studie van taalverandering. Die huidige taaldebatte rakende taalverandering fokus oorheersend op taalvariëteite en die insluiting daarvan in die klaskamer. Studies toon dat ... -
Inter- and intralingual translations of complainants’ police sworn statements: a co-construction of a legal text in a South African context
(University of the Western Cape, 2024)English is the dominant language of record in the South African criminal justice system, despite the constitutional provision that affords all twelve languages equal status and usage. As a result of English hegemony, sworn ... -
Things pretty dull: materiality and the making of Muizenberg in the 20th and 21st centuries
(University of the Western Cape, 2023)The purpose of this research is to explore processes of historical production and ideas about public space in Muizenberg, South Africa. It argues that the dominant narrative told about Muizenberg from the late nineteenth ... -
Investigating a proposed standardised method for authorship attribution in l1/2 english texts
(University of the Western Cape, 2023)Authorship attribution is a method of revealing the obscure or unknown individuals who may have played a part in the creation of texts (Kotze, 2007). The purpose of authorship attribution is both to test claims of authorship ... -
Radicals and Antiradicals in near-rings
(1979)This thesis deals with Jacobson type radicals and ideals, which are antiradical in the sense that they are direct sums of minimal left ideals and annihilate the quasi-radical of central importance are the s-radical denoted ... -
verandering in arrykskunde in die sekondere skool: n aksienavorsingsbenadering
(1991)Hierdie mini-thesis handel hoofsaaklik oor n aksienvorsingsprojek wat gedurende 1989 by Fairmount Sekonder geloode is. Die aanvanklike doel was om die status van die vak Aardrykskunde te verhoog. Vanwee die sikliese aard ... -
Contemporary black African curatorial practice: three biographic studies in strategy
(University of the Western Cape, 2024)This doctoral thesis is an interpretive study of the emergence of contemporary curatorial practice on the African continent. The inquiry charts the rise of the practice of curating in postcolonial Africa, casting a ... -
Sand mining challenges in the Western Cape: the case of the tormin mineral sands and maccsand mining and quarrying mines
(University of the Western Cape, 2023)Mining, as a primary extractive activity, is characterised by arguably the most environmentally destructive operations worldwide. South Africa’s mining industry, which is an important economic driver, and its environmental ... -
Adoption of fully-fledged open access e-resources in academic libraries: A case study of the university of the Western Cape
(University of the Western Cape, 2023)This study explored factors that affect academic libraries’ full migration to open access (OA) publishing by critically evaluating existing literature on OA and by engaging with the librarian from the University of the ... -
Media representations of male perpetrators of violence against women and children: a decolonial feminist analysis
(University of the Western Cape, 2023)Rates of violence in South Africa continue to be on the rise, and impact negatively on society at large. The struggle to end this violence requires more nuanced understandings of its root causes, which has led to a call ...