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Latest news and eventsDialogue Series at SU bring students and staff together to fight climate change
During our time as students at Stellenbosch University (SU), we have been involved in student activism around climate change. We’ve had numerous discussions on this topic with a range of student societies, the Student Representative Council (SRC) and various staff...
OP-ED: Women still considered a threat to military effectiveness and warrior spirit
By Lindy Heinecken. Article originally published on Mail&Guardian on 23 March 2022. With few exceptions, war is largely waged by men, with less than 1% of all combatants in history being women. Today, women remain a minority in the military, in combat and senior...
The Archive of Possibilities
By Efua Prah. Article originally published on ALICE news on 16.03.2022 When we think of Africa, what story dominates? Whilst we have been expertly cautioned about the dangers of a single story, the popular narratives of the lumbering economic giant, or the...
VIDEO: Dr Efua Prah weighs in on SAHRC inquiry into racism and discrimination in advertising industry
In this interview on NewzRoom Afrika, Dr Efua Prah weighs in on SAHRC inquiry into racism and discrimination in advertising industry
VIDEO: A look at the plight of women in war-torn countries
As we commemorate International Women’s Day, Prof. Lindy Heinecken, from Stellenbosch University, looks at the plight of women in war-torn countries. This as scores of women and girls in Ukraine continue to face hostilities.
AUDIO: Changing conversations about women’s reproductive health
International Women’s Day is celebrated annually on 8 March. In this podcast, Dr Efua Prah from the Department of Sociology and Social Anthropology talks about why we need to change the conversations about women’s reproductive health which is still considered a taboo subject in some societies.
VIDEO: Unpacking the events at Hoerskool Jan Vilijoen
This week we have seen images of parents and community members of different races clash outside Hoerskool Jan Vilijoen. But there are so many things going on in our society around this it is a conversation around transformation, around inclusion it’s about a lot more...
OP-ED: Social capital and economic empowerment: Lessons for black South Africa from the Afrikaners of Vanderbijlpark
By Jantjie Xaba. Article first published in the Daily Maverick on 8 February 2022. In the 1940s, white Afrikaners in the former apartheid, Iscor-dominated town of Vanderbijlpark developed networks, trust and relationships to overcome poverty, joblessness and skills...
OP-ED: ‘Rights of Nature’: A fundamental challenge to the world as we know it.
By Steven Robins. Article originally published in the Daily Maverick on 6 January 2022. The gradual growth of the notion that the protection of our natural world can be achieved by the assertion of the legal rights of Nature has begun to shift the way many...
OP-ED: River Club: Utopian fantasies of a high tech concrete jungle in a city of broken infrastructures and fractured communities.
By Steven Robins. Article originally published in the Daily Maverick on 22 November 2021. While the details of the land-use planning decision to rezone the River Club land for development has yet to be dissected in the courtroom, what has become very clear is that the...
VACANCY: DSI/NRF SARChI Chair (Closing Date: 12 November 2021)
Stellenbosch UniversityFaculty of Arts and Social Sciences Department of Sociology and Social Anthropology DSI/NRF SARChI Chair in the Sociology of Land, Environment and Sustainable Development Four-year term from 2022, with the possibility of renewal for a further...
SEMINAR: Ecologics: Renewable Energy and More-than-Human Worlds
2021 SEMINAR SERIES:THURSDAY 21 October 2021. 3.00pm – 4.30pm Cymene HoweProfessor in Anthropology at Rice UniversityDiscussants: Tinaye Mukutiri & Kate Du Preez Ecologics: Wind and Power in the Anthropocene Abstract: In southern Mexico, the world’s largest...
Postgraduate studies 2022: Departmental and University Scholarships and Bursaries
Sociology & Social Anthropology, Stellenbosch University Postgraduate studies in Sociology or Social Anthropology at Stellenbosch strives to create a community of scholars who are critical, enthusiastic and supportive of each other. Students experience their...
SEMINAR: Spaceship in the Desert: Energy, Climate Change and Urban Design in Abu Dhabi
2021 SEMINAR SERIES:THURSDAY 7 October 2021. 1.00pm – 2.30pm Gökçe GunelAssistant Professor in Anthropology at Rice University Spaceship in the Desert: Energy, Climate Change and Urban Design in Abu Dhabi Abstract: This seminar is based off her latest book Spaceship...
Vacancy: Lecturer (Sociology) – CLOSING DATE 23 August 2021
Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences Sociology and Social Anthropology Lecturer (Sociology) (Ref. LSW17/217/0721) For information on the Department of Sociology and Social Anthropology, please visit our website:http://www0.sun.ac.za/sociology/ Duties: Teaching and...
SEMINAR: Cattle Looting and British Colonialism of South Africa: A Forgotten History
2021 SEMINAR SERIES:THURSDAY 12 August 2021. 1.00pm – 2.30pm Adv. Tembeka NgcukaitobiTembeka Ngcukaitobi is a South African writer and attorney, currently serving as an advocate of the high court CATTLE LOOTING AND BRITISH COLONIALISM OF SOUTH AFRICA: A FORGOTTEN...
OP-ED: Military not a magic bullet: South Africa needs to do more for long term peace
By Lindy Heinecken. First published in The Conversation on 26 July 2021.(Photo: EFE-EPA/Kim Ludbrook) In a show of force unprecedented since South Africa became a democracy in 1994, the South African National Defence Force has commissioned 25,000 soldiers for...
SEMINAR: Azania, Race and the Problem of South African Knowledges
2021 Seminar Series.THURSDAY 24 June 2021. 1.00pm – 2.30pm Prof. Joel ModiriAssociate Professor and Head of the Department of Jurisprudence at the University of Pretoria, Faculty of Law AZANIA, RACE AND THE PROBLEM OF SOUTH AFRICAN KNOWLEDGES Abstract: This paper...
SEMINAR: (Immigrant) farm workers and social reproduction in South African land reform
2021 Seminar Series.THURSDAY 10 June 2021. 1.00pm – 2.30pm Dr. Mnqobi NgubanePost-Doctoral Fellow at the Institute for Poverty, Land and Agrarian Studies (PLAAS) (Immigrant) farm workers and social reproduction in South African land reform Abstract: The rich diversity...
SEMINAR: Teaching Social Theory in South African Sociology
2021 Seminar Series.THURSDAY 22 April 2021. 1.00pm - 2.30pm This roundtable brings together scholars teaching theory in Sociology at five universities. It offers reflections on both the content and the form of teaching theory in and from contemporary South Africa....
OP-ED: Lwazi Lushaba and his Hitler analogy: The cul-de-sacs and conundrums of ‘competitive memory’
By Steven Robins. First published in the Daily Maverick on 15 April 2021.(Photo: Gallo Images / Oupa Bopape) University of Cape Town lecturer Dr Lwazi Lushaba’s extrapolation from Aimé Césaire’s writings suggests that the international human rights community only...