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Being and neoliberalism: A conceptual history of the subject
(University of the Western Cape, 2022)
The idea of neoliberalism, as both a guiding principle for economic policy decisions and a governing rationality, is a pertinent issue of our time. The concept itself is often used to describe the contemporary mode of ...
Popular history in South Africa in the 198Os: the politics of production
(University of the Western Cape, 1994)
Popular history, like indeed other histories, is informed by different ideas about the relationship between the past, the present and the political uses of history. However, a major problem in trying to explore these ideas ...
Locating 'home': Strategies of settlement, identity-formation and social change among African women in Cape Town, 1948-2000
(University of the Western Cape, 2002)
This dissertation constructs a social history of African women in Cape Town from the vantage point of their varied attempts over the last five decades to map 'home' in the urban setting: in the physical structures of their ...
Popular histories of independence and Ujamaa in Tanzania
(University of Western Cape, 2008)
It is now forty years after the start of African Socialism, or Ujamaa, in Tanzania. This
study examines to what extent Tanzanians still tell their national history in ways which
feature the important themes of social ...
Re-articulating History: Historical Play, Nation, Text .
(University of Western Cape, 2006)
The writing of history in postapartheid South Africa constitutes a crisis for the discipline of history as, I argue, it requires the discipline to confront its role in contributing towards the constitution of the condition ...
‘n Histories-kritiese ondersoek na diei armoede-vraagstuk onder die gekleurde gemeenskap van Kaapstad 1910-1933
(University of Western Cape, 1993)
Hierdie verhandeling is die vrug van intensiewe nadenke en navorsing oor die armoedesituasie van gekleurdes van Kaapstad gedurende die jare 1910-1933. Die tydperk is gekies omdat dit besonderlik die teelaarde vir armoede ...
Voices from the Kavango: A study of the contract labour system in Namibia, 1925-1972
(University of the Western Cape, 2012)
This thesis seeks to explore how the life histories and the voices of the contract labourers from the Kavango contribute to our understanding of the contract labour system in Namibia. In particular, it seek to ask what ...
A People's History of South Africa: Gold and Workers
(University of the Western Cape, 1980)
In black societies, 'cattle were used for religious ceremonies and also for lobola, which was an important part of the economy. Lobola. was an exchange of cattle for a fruitful marriage. If the This volume is the first in ...
Social welfare policy for a post-apartheid South Africa: A developmental perspective
(University of the Western Cape, 1995)
This research project, in which social welfare constitutes the central focus of study, is undertaken within the broad field of development studies. The basic concern of the study is to determine the role and the place of ...
'Unearthing' the 'essential' past: The making of a public 'national' memory through the Truth and Reconciliation Commission, 1994-1998
(University of the Western Cape, 1998)
At a lecture presented in London on June 5, 1994, Jacques Derrida discussed the complexities of
the meaning of the archive. He described the duality in meaning of the word archive-in terms of
temporality and spatiality-as ...