Browsing Faculty of Arts by Subject "Disability"
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Exploring the effectiveness of distance learning as an alternative to mainstream education for disabled children in South Africa
(University of the Western Cape, 2022)The implementation of inclusive education by the South African government has been inspired and mandated by the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities. While South Africa was among the first ... -
Negotiating difference: exploring masculinity and disability in contemporary dance
(University of the Western Cape, 2015)There is a theoretical gap in scholarship pertaining to masculinity and disability in dance. Existing scholarship on masculinity, disability and dance respectively, seldom bring these three themes into conversation with ... -
Night writing: The textual ideation of Andrew Jeptha
(University of the Western Cape, 2015)The publication A South African Boxer in Britain contains the unique aesthetic of the Cape Town born boxer Andrew Jeptha, the first black fighter to win a British welterweight title in 1907. The booklet was published in ... -
Protesting death-disability-debility imaginaries: Ontological erasure and the endemic violences of settler colonialism
(University of the Western Cape, 2023)White supremacist rule socially engineered impoverishment dispossession and fomented brutality that black people in South Africa were made to endure through centuries at the settler colonial history , which was intensified ... -
When the village sleeps
(University of the Western Cape, 2022)This thesis consists of a creative and in-depth research component: a speculative novel, When the Village Sleeps, and a reflective long essay. It is about a young woman, Mandlakazi, who was born severely malformed, the ... -
Youth multilingualism and discourses of disability: An intersectional approach
(University of the Western Cape, 2018)Disability, as a topic of investigation, is considerably overlooked in the discipline of sociolinguistics. This thesis aims to bridge the gap between disability and sociolinguistics studies, as I critically explore the ...