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Undergraduate sociology and social anthropology modules are taken as part of a degree programmes; each programme prescribes the specific modules…
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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...
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...
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...
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...
VACANCY: DSI/NRF SARChI Chair (Closing Date: 12 November 2021)
Stellenbosch UniversityFaculty of Arts and Social Sciences Department of Sociology and Social Anthropology...
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...
Postgraduate studies 2022: Departmental and University Scholarships and Bursaries
Sociology & Social Anthropology, Stellenbosch University Postgraduate studies in Sociology or Social...
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...
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