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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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Postgraduate studies in Sociology or Social Anthropology at Stellenbosch embed students in a community of scholars who are critical, enthusiastic and supportive of each other…
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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...
Vacancy: Lecturer (Sociology) – CLOSING DATE 23 August 2021
Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences Sociology and Social Anthropology Lecturer (Sociology) (Ref....
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...
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...