Magister Artium - MA (Anthropology/Sociology)
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A discourse analysis of social activism and social movements on social media networks: towards an understanding of the emergence of virtual public spheres
(University of the Western Cape, 2023)As Internet technologies, Facebook and Twitter are important sociopolitical tools in the context of revolutions and protest actions as evidenced in the cases of Egypt’s 2011 political revolution #Jan25 and South Africa’s ... -
Sensory flows of Spice: A multisensory ethnography exploring how spice influences home cooks’ sense of belonging in Cape Town
(University of the Western Cape, 2023)The history of Cape Town is entangled with the spice trade, slavery, colonialism and orientalism. The Cape cuisine narratives often romanticize fixed cultural cuisines, as seen with the "Cape Malay" cuisine, which is only ... -
Understanding the culture of care: An ethnographic study of how healthcare workers in a mental health centre negotiate care in Windhoek, Namibia
(University of the Western Cape, 2023)This study was aimed at exploring the culture of care that healthcare workers at a Namibian Mental Health Centre have cultivated, their lived experiences and how they use their agency to deliver the service of care. a ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
Animals at work: a multispecies ethnographic study of entanglements of cart-horse labour in Freedom Farm informal settlement, Cape Town.
(University of the Western Cape, 2023)Human life experiences are closely intertwined with our relationships with other animals and the environment. From the late 19th century to the late 20th century, Cart-horses served as an informal travel market for the ... -
Mental health promotion: an exploration of a peer community-based intervention in Cape Town
(University of the Western Cape, 2023)The outbreak of COVID-19 in 2019 and the accompanying lockdown, social distancing and quarantine measures across the world separated individuals and families from their loved ones. This separation and social isolation also ... -
Mental health promotion: An exploration of a peer community-based intervention in Cape Town
(University of the Western Cape, 2023)The outbreak of COVID-19 in 2019 and the accompanying lockdown, social distancing and quarantine measures across the world separated individuals and families from their loved ones. This separation and social isolation also ... -
Making and remaking life under threat: Disposability, extraction, and anti-black historical processes in old coronation, Mpumalanga
(University of the Western Cape, 2022)Developed in the 1980s on an abandoned Anglo American coal mine, Old Coronation informal settlement in Mpumalanga is a site of environmental, infrastructural, social, and economic ruin. This thesis looks into the lives ... -
A sociological study of ideology among the Herero of central Namibia
(University of the Western Cape, 1984)The concept of ideology: as portrayed in the works of various social theorists, is comprised of a wider Yet related, range of meanings and connotations. Despite its lack of semantic precision, the concept is of value for ... -
“Anything about us, without us, is against us”: An ethnography of the genocide reparations and decolonial movements in Namibia
(University of the Western Cape, 2022)This thesis explores decolonial memory activism and queer activism in Namibia. It demonstrates how activists have mobilized in intersectional struggles (Becker 2020; 2022) against the structural remnants of colonialism. ... -
Opportunities of muslim female socio-political interaction in Shariah legislation in the northern Nigerian provinces
(University of the Western Cape, 2001)This paper identifies the reasons for the lack of Hausa women's political participation and how women can self-determine regarding social change within their patriarchal societies, by focusing on the socio-cultural factors ... -
Possible causes of Divorce in Asmara
(University of the Western Cape, 2003)This research project seeks to account for some of the causes of divorce in Asmara Eritrea. The existing law in this country recognizes adultery, desertion and cruelty as serious grounds for divorce. However, this research, ... -
Our memories of the liberation war: How civilians in post war Northern Namibia remember the war.
(University of the Western Cape, 2003)This research looks at the gap that exists between public representation and personal narratives of the Namibian liberation war. Having observed the absence of private narratives in the grand national memory, I address the ... -
Exploring meanings of lesbian spaces in Cape Town and their perceived impact on well-being
(University of the Western Cape, 2008)Cape Town is perceived as one of the'gay capitals'of the world, yet many individuals who identify as homosexual still experience danger and harassment in this city in their everyday lives. This qualitative study was conducted ... -
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 ... -
Amagqirha nemicimbi: The art of healing
(University of Western Cape, 2021)Amagqirha have been understood solely through the framework of health and illness. Their image is tainted and they are misrepresented as clad bone throwers and mystical scammers. There are very few studies that focus on ... -
Commissioned women soldiers and politics in Zimbabwe
(University of the Western Cape, 2020)The Zimbabwe National Army (ZNA) and the ruling party, the Zimbabwe African Union Patriotic Front (ZANU-PF), are strongly interlinked in politics since independence, that is, the Army largely functions as the military wing ... -
An investigation of the integration of foreign migrants into South African community: A case of Zimbabweans living in Luyoloville and New Rest in Gugulethu, Cape Town.
(University of the Western Cape, 2016)According to migrant research in South Africa, after the advent of democracy in South Africa, in 1994, the country has received an influx of foreign migrants, more especially from the African continent. However, much focus ... -
Colonisers to Colonialists: European Jews and the workings of race as a political identity in the settler colony of South Africa
(University of the Western Cape, 2020)This thesis explores the shifting racial identification and politics of the emerging Jewish community in Southern Africa between the Anglo-Boer War in 1902 and the Union of South Africa in 1910. Through an investigation ...
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