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Hetero-sexing the athlete: public and popular discourses on sexuality and women’s sport in South Africa
(University of the Free State, 2018)On the African continent sport has, particularly in the last two decades, been hailed as a useful tool in the quest for nation building and social cohesion. A popular claim is that sport has a particularly powerful role ... -
A century of mountaineering: race, class and the politics of climbing Table Mountain, 1890 – 1990
(University of the Free State, 2018)Mountaineering in Cape Town was first practised as a sport by the colonial elite during the late 19th Century. This historical review of two mountain clubs analyses the linkages between race, class and mountaineering in ... -
Saturday night at the Speedway: class, race, gender and a ‘lynching’
(University of the Free State, 2018)This paper will reflect on some contemporary reenactments of whiteness by a white subaltern crowd attending an oval track speedway meeting in central South Africa in 2017. It will also consider my role as ethnographer/observer, ... -
Sporting subalternities and social justice: rethinking South African sports studies
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Ousting South Africa: Olympic clashes of 1968
(University of the Free State, 2018)South Africa modified its sport policy, though not its national policy of apartheid, prior to the 1968 Mexico City Olympic Games. Black and white South African athletes would compete as one team at the Olympics for the ... -
South Africa's social contract: the Economic Freedom Fighters and the rise of a new constituent power?
(University of the Free State, 2018)Taking the South African constitution as an eminent symbol of the South African social contract, and noting the opinion of many that the contract has failed to deliver, this article explores the concept of the social contract ... -
Power, rights, freedom, technocracy and postcolonialism in sub-Saharan Africa
(University of the Free State, 2018)Economic ‘unfreedom’, in the form of extreme poverty, renders individuals prey to the violation of other kinds of freedoms. Historically, colonial activities by the West openly disrupted the rights of the impoverished in ... -
The poverty of (critical) theory
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'Affective' witnessing and testimony in contemporary environmental cinema
(University of the Free State, 2018)This article advances that through incorporating registers of affect, environmental cinema might better approximate its socially and ecologically transformative goals. A film in which this has been attempted is Fisher ... -
A philosophical situation: democratic capitalism, the ecological crisis, and the issue of choice
(University of the Free State, 2018)Democracy is an open system, while capitalism is a gated one. Yet the dominant global political economy is democratic capitalism. The presence of a gated capitalist core within democracy results in the political prioritisation ... -
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Universiteitstoelating in die nuwe Suid-Afrika: ideologiese en statistiese oorwegings
(University of the Free State, 1999)English: This article discusses the misconceptions which can arise when statistically distinguishable groups with diverse school backgrounds compete for admission to tertiary academic institutions. It is recommended that ... -
Five generations of applied linguistics: some framework issues
(University of the Free State, 1999)English: In recent years a number of discussions have sustained the debate on the definition of applied linguistics, a debate which addresses both ends of the spectrum of applied linguistic work: the philosophical and the ... -
The death of Alexander the Great
(University of the Free State, 1999)English: The circumstances of Alexander's death are reviewed. Since contemporary sources vary in their accounts of the reason for his death, they are briefly reviewed and assessed. The account of Alexander's final illness ... -
Frameworks for institutional audits for quality in South African higher education
(University of the Free State, 1999)English: This paper attempts to establish the most suitable a system for institutional audits of higher education institutions in South Africa. It focuses on four areas: theory, philosophy, categories and practice. The ... -
Spectators in Jerusalem: urban narrative in the scenic tradition
(University of the Free State, 1999)English: This investigation of the narrative prospects of urban pictures in the scenic tradition is devoted co Hans Memling's painting depicting a sequence of Passion scenes set in a topographical view ofJerusalem. In ... -
Health and health care in South Africa in transition: a macro perspective
(University of the Free State, 1999)English: The South African health care system, along with society in general, is undergoing profound transformation. Afcer almost five years, questions may well be posed about the nature of chis transition, the benefits ... -
Deracialisation of urban business space: street traders in Pietersburg
(University of the Free State, 1999)English: The 'invasion' of the CBD by informal entrepreneurs signalled the first visible phase of the informal process of deracialisation of business space. A clear distinction between deracialisation and desegregation ... -
Landelik-stedelike interaksie en plaaslike owerheidsbestuur in die Stellenbosch-distrik
(University of the Free State, 1999)English: The distinction between rural and urban areas in various parts of the world is fading because of increasing interaction between the two groups of communities. lt is particularly the nature and magnitude of the ... -
Die verbouing van tafeldruiwe en sultanas in die Benede-Oranje-riviergebied
(University of the Free State, 1999)English: The table grape and sultana industry is an economic mainstay for the Lower Orange River area, but without irrigation the industry cannot exist, mainly because of the dry climate in the area. However, it is not ...
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