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Injuries are one of the leading causes of death and disability in low- and middle-income countries, especially in sub-Saharan Africa. High quality and accessible healthcare systems are needed to reduce...
The project has as its goal to advance a comparative law analysis between Colombia and South Africa in terms of legal interventions to counteract or prevent environmental destruction and its particular...
Race Changes is a book about people whose seemingly permanent racial or ethnic identities in fact change over the course of their lifetimes. Sometimes it is just a matter of changing racial rules from...
The proposed project looks into the activities of the Instituut vir Volksmusiek at Stellenbosch University. The institute was set up in 1960 at Jan Bouws’ arrival in South Africa and was abandoned on...
This project positions South African Literature within the emergence of the New Humanities (Medical, Environmental, Digital), and orients both toward Medical, Scientific and Social Sciences’ emphases...
Over the past 25 years or so, large corporations have been under increasing pressure both to improve their performance on environment, social and governance (ESG) issues, and to report better on what they...
The world reached 8 billion people in November 2022. That number is expected to increase to 10.4 billion by the mid-2080s before stabilizing and beginning to decline. Population growth in Low- and Middle-Income...
The profound challenge of ensuring the long-term well-being and perhaps even the survival of human society within societal and bio-geo-physical planetary boundaries hinges critically on transforming collective...
Generative linguistic theory holds that language is shaped by principles hardwired in the human brain. For many years modeling of the principles was based mainly on English, taking its properties to be...
Against the background of memory activism and decolonial movements in Southern Africa, much discussed since the South African #RhodesMustFall movement in 2015, this project traces the complex transfigurations...
Cardiovascular disease (CVD) is the leading cause of mortality and amounts to about a third of all global deaths. Decline of death rates for CVDs is faster in high-income compared to low- and middle-income...
Since the start of my career the focus of my scholarly research has been what has been defined as the “agrarian question”. This question is concerned with understanding the processes by which capitalism...