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View article: Against the Odds: Engaged Young Fatherhood in Contemporary South Africa
Against the Odds: Engaged Young Fatherhood in Contemporary South Africa Open
This article explores the positions of young fathers living in contexts of unemployment and poverty in South Africa's Eastern Cape. We use two primary sources of data to explore young men's ideas about fatherhood, as articulated in letters…
View article: Aspects of hawking in the Transkei, 1920-1945
Aspects of hawking in the Transkei, 1920-1945 Open
During the 20th century Transkei became a place of migrant workers, old people, women and children. The gradual impoverishment of the region and its African population paradoxically was accompanied by economic opportunities for whites, par…
View article: Distinguishing the genuine from the fake in South African universities: Scholarly awards, books and academic credibility
Distinguishing the genuine from the fake in South African universities: Scholarly awards, books and academic credibility Open
Universities and their academics are faced with increasing pressure to contribute to knowledge.These pressures produce conditions for shortcuts and, worse, the production of unreliable research that has little value.This is the world of th…
View article: “I found my people”: Academic development, transformation and the Next Generation Professoriate at UCT
“I found my people”: Academic development, transformation and the Next Generation Professoriate at UCT Open
Questions of inclusivity and transformation are central in higher education. In South Africa, these imperatives have the additional weight of post-apartheid redress. Attempts to address these questions seldom contemplate how transformation…
View article: Misrepresentation of research on academic promotions at the University of Cape Town
Misrepresentation of research on academic promotions at the University of Cape Town Open
In this response, we address the misrepresentation of our article by Rene W Albertus on higher education decolonisation processes in South Africa. We respond to her claim, based on a misreading of our article, that at the University of Cap…
View article: Academic promotions at a South African university: questions of bias, politics and transformation
Academic promotions at a South African university: questions of bias, politics and transformation Open
The system of academic promotion provides a mechanism for the achievements of staff to be recognised. However, it can be a mechanism that creates or reflects inequalities, with certain groups rising to the top more readily than others. In …
View article: Incursions from the epicentre: Southern theory, social science, and the global HIV research domain
Incursions from the epicentre: Southern theory, social science, and the global HIV research domain Open
Research about HIV constitutes a global domain of academic knowledge. The patterns that structure this domain reflect inequalities in the production and dissemination of knowledge, as well as broader inequalities in geopolitics. Convention…
View article: Negotiating with the North: How Southern-tier intellectual workers deal with the global economy of knowledge
Negotiating with the North: How Southern-tier intellectual workers deal with the global economy of knowledge Open
This article examines a group of intellectual workers who occupy a peripheral but not powerless position in the global economy of knowledge. How do they handle relations with the global metropole, especially in new fields of research where…
View article: Fathers who care and those that don’t: Men and childcare in South Africa
Fathers who care and those that don’t: Men and childcare in South Africa Open
Fathers have an important role to play in childcare and when they are not involved, the children, mothers and fathers themselves are the poorer for it. Yet in many contexts we do not actually know either the extent or nature of father invo…
View article: South African Social Science in the Global HIV/AIDS Knowledge Domain
South African Social Science in the Global HIV/AIDS Knowledge Domain Open
Research about HIV constitutes a global domain of academic knowledge. This domain is dominated by biomedicine, and by institutions and funders based in the ‘global North’. However, from the earliest years of the epidemic, African investiga…
View article: The Emergence of Gender Scholarship in South Africa – reflections on Southern Theory
The Emergence of Gender Scholarship in South Africa – reflections on Southern Theory Open
The late 20th century saw a steep rise in published works on gender in South Africa. This article analyses the production of gender research against a backdrop of current interest in southern theory, theory that is produced to analyse and …
View article: Southern knowledge online? Climate change research discoverability and communication practices
Southern knowledge online? Climate change research discoverability and communication practices Open
The networked age promises global digital cultures with flattened power relations, given the affordances of information and communication technologies (ICTs) to collapse distance, enable easier cross-country collaborations and create new o…
View article: Why, when and how men rape: Understanding rape perpetration in South Africa
Why, when and how men rape: Understanding rape perpetration in South Africa Open
This article reports the findings of research conducted with a randomly selected sample of men aged 18–49 years from the general population of the Eastern Cape and KwaZulu-Natal, who were asked in an anonymously conducted survey about thei…