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The literary representation of identity and alienation in counterinsurgencies
(University of the Free State, 2013-11)
English: This interdisciplinary study investigates how alienation manifests in American literature on the Vietnam War and Afrikaans literature on the war in Namibia/Angola (the so-called Border War). After an historical ...
South Africa in the international arms trade network (ATN) during national party rule (1948-1994): a network analysis
(Faculty of the Humanities, University of the Free State, 2015-06)
Network theory has become a key theoretical framework with which to study complex systems, and
a large number of studies have investigated the structure of the World Trade Network (WTN) within
this paradigm. This article ...
South Africa in the international arms trade network (ATN) during national party rule (1948-1994): a network analysis
(Faculty of the Humanities, University of the Free State, 2015)
South Africa is renowned for its arms industry, which was established under apartheid to counter
external threats during the Cold War, increasing internal threats from the black majority, and
internationally imposed arms ...
An ark without a flood: white South Africans' preparations for the end of white-ruled South Africa
(Faculty of the Humanities, University of the Free State, 2014)
“Doomsday prepping” has become a highly visible phenomenon in recent years following extensive media coverage on National Geographic Channel and Discovery Channel. Although “preppers” currently inhabit South Africa, the ...
Mapping a dark network with Social Network Analysis (SNA): the right wing Vaal Dam bomb plot
(Faculty of the Humanities, University of the Free State, 2014-06)
The use of Social Network Analysis (SNA) to map dark, i.e. illegal, networks gained momentum after
the 9/11 attacks on the World Trade Centre in New York, and numerous studies have been conducted
that map Islamic extremist ...