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The recent authoritarian turn globally raises questions about what happens to women’s rights in such contexts. Surprisingly, some authoritarian regimes in Africa have proven rather adept at adopting...
Combining insights from political theology, postcolonial and critical race theories, this project interrogates the contemporary relation between religion and politics through an exploration of Jacques...
It is now recognized that poverty reduction efforts in Africa are undermined by capital flight. Previous evidence has shown that trade misinvoicing is an important channel of capital flight. This study...
Since the realisation of the first Bose-Einstein condensate (BEC) a couple of decades ago, there have been intense works on the quantum gas field, aiming mostly at unravelling the quantum properties of...
Human mind continuously produces explanations because an explained world is perceived as more understandable, more secure, open for forecasting and for planning of successful actions. In all cultures and...
The Song of Songs, a collection of ancient erotic poetry known to the modern reader as a part of the Jewish and Christian Bible, belongs to the ancient Near Eastern tradition of love poetry together with...
The third volume concluding my comprehensive, novel history of South-African/Afrikaans literature explores the period from the 1930s onwards. Disentangled from pressures understandably faced by South-African...
The corpus of scholarship from the “Global North” signal an increasing global feminization of the legal profession. Yet, little remains known about the trends in the “Global South”, as this apparent...
This research project presents an ethnography and political economy of different spaces – cinemas, film festivals, websites, and other public spaces – where African films are screened, as well as an...
The multivalent opportunities provided by the post-apartheid policy-led transforming cultural scene saw an intensification of cultural activities mushrooming throughout the country. In relation to musical...
Humanity is facing an existential crisis from global climate change. Evolutionary biology has a critical role to play in how we respond. The problem fundamentally involves two evolvable variables: Ecosystems,...
This project aims to address the economic mechanisms governing or heavily influencing all significant patent offices (PTOs) worldwide. Said mechanisms are not obvious. In some cases, they even are actively...