Staff and Fellows of the Centre for Humanities Research regularly publish articles and reviews in local and international journals, applying the centre’s intellectual inquiries across a wide range of disciplines and interests.

The list below represents the latter years of the centre’s output, since 2016.

Assubuji, Rui. “Atlas of an Empire: Photographic Narrations and the Visual Struggle for Mozambique.” Kronos: Southern African Histories, vol. 46 (Nov. 2020), special edition Other Lives of the Image http://dx.doi.org/10.17159/2309-9585/2020/v46a8

Benya, Asanda-Jonas, and Sithandiwe Yeni. “Co-developing Local Feminist ‘Conceptual Vocabularies’ While Strengthening Activism Through Critical Consciousness Raising with South Africa’s Mine and Farm Women.” South African Review of Sociology (2022) https://doi.org/10.1080/21528586.2021.2024087

Bidandi, Fred, and John J. Williams. “The Challenges Facing Urbanisation Processes in Kampala.” Urban Forum, Issue 3 (3017).

Bidandi, Fred, and John J. Williams. “Understanding Urban Land, Politics, and Planning: A Critical Appraisal of Kampala’s Urban Sprawl.” Cities, vol. 106 (Nov. 2020) https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cities.2020.102858

Bidandi, Fred, and Nicolette Roman. “Social Cohesion as an External Factor Affecting Families: An Analysis of the White Paper on Families in South Africa.” Southern African Journal of Social Work and Social Development, vol. 32, no. 3 (2020) https://upjournals.co.za/index.php/SWPR/article/view/7457

Bidandi, Fred, Anthony Nforh Ambe, and Claudia Haking Mukong. “Insights and Current Debates on Community Engagement in Higher Education Institutions: Perspectives on the University of the Western Cape.” SAGE Open (April-June 2021) https://doi.org/10.1177%2F21582440211011467

Bidandi, Fred, John J. Williams, and Jianfa Shen. “The terrain of Urbanisation Process and Policy Frameworks: A Critical Analysis of the Kampala Experience.” Cogent Social Sciences, vol. 3, no. 1 (2017) https://doi.org/10.1080/23311886.2016.1275949

Bidandi, Fred. “Geopolitics, Political Violence, and Identity: Perspectives on the Great Lakes Region in East Africa.” Peace Studies Journal, vol. 11, no. 1 (2018).

Bidandi, Fred. “Migration Violence in the Great Lakes Region of Africa: Negotiating the Return of Refugees.” Alternation Journal, vol. 26 (2019) https://doi.org/10.29086/2519-5476/2019/sp26a8

Bidandi, Fred. “Understanding Refugee Durable Solutions by International Players: Does Dialogue form a Missing Link?” Cogent Social Sciences, vol. 4, no. 1 (2018) https://doi.org/10.1080/23311886.2018.1510724

Burocco, Laura. “CURA e Vozes Contra o Racismo: Pratiche Artistiche e Curatoriali di Contro Colonizzazione dal Sud” Roots§routes Research on Visual Culture  https://www.roots-routes.org/cura-e-vozes-contra-o-racismo-pratiche-artistiche-e-curatoriali-di-contro-colonizzazione-dal-sud-di-laura-burocco/

Burocco, Laura. “The Forest on the Walls: Notes on Indigenous Street Art.” Nuart Journal, Issue 5 – Lockdown (May 2021) https://nuartjournal.com/pdf/issue-5/NJ5-08_Burocco.pdf

Dubbeld, Bernard, and Fernanda Pinto de Almeida. “Government by Grants: The Post-pandemic Politics of Welfare.” Transformation: Critical Perspectives on Southern Africa, vol. 104 (2020) http://doi.org/10.1353/trn.2020.0032

Erasmus, Aidan, and Lauren van der Rede, “Reckoning with Africa and the Desire for a Global Mnemoscape.” Global-e, vol. 12, no. 13 (2019), special issue Mnemonic Solidarity in the Global Memory Space  https://www.21global.ucsb.edu/global-e/april-2019/reckoning-africa-and-desire-global-mnemoscape

Erasmus, Aidan. “A Sinister Resonance.” Canadian Review of Comparative Literature, vol. 45, no. 4 (Dec. 2018) doi:10.1353/crc.2018.0061

Erasmus, Aidan. “To the Technical Media Themselves: A Review Essay of Wolfgang Ernst’s Sonic Time Machines.” Kronos: Southern African Histories, vol. 43 (2017), special issue What is the University in Africa For? http://dx.doi.org/10.17159/2309-9585/2017/v43a13

Forrest, Caili. “What’s in a name? A Feminist Reflection on Street Name Changes in Durban.” Agenda, vol. 32, no. 2 (2018) https://doi.org/10.1080/10130950.2018.1445338

Gilburt, Iona. “Bringing the Vietnam War Home: A Study of Photographic Media in J. M. Coetzee’s Dusklands.” Safundi, vol. 20, no. 4 (2019) https://doi.org/10.1080/17533171.2019.1661563

Gilburt, Iona. “Rewriting Dusklands: The Narrative of Marilyn Dawn.” New Writing (First Published May 2020) https://doi.org/10.1080/14790726.2020.1753779

Gilburt, Iona. “The Phototextual Emergence of Hysteria: From the Iconographie Photographique de la Salpêtrière to J. M. Coetzee’s Slow Man.” Kronos: Southern African Histories, vol. 46 (Nov. 2020), special edition Other Lives of the Image http://dx.doi.org/10.17159/2309-9585/2020/v46a6

Gimenez Amoros, Luis. “Beyond Nationhood: Haul Music from a Postcolonial Perspective in Western Sahara and Mauritania.” African Music: Journal of the International Library of African Music, vol. 11, no. 2 (2020)

Gimenez Amoros, Luis. “The Digital Return of ILAM´s Zimbabwean Recordings: Revitalisation of the Sound Archive through the Postcolonial Engagement between ILAM and African Universities.” Archives and Records, vol. 40, no. 3 (2019) https://doi.org/10.1080/23257962.2018.1561362

Graham, Aubrey P. “Hostile Visual Encounters: Fighting to Control Photographic Meaning in the DRC’s Digital Age.” Africa, vol. 89, no. 2 (May 2019) https://doi.org/10.1017/S0001972019000056

Grunebaum, Heidi. “Between Nakba, Shoah and Apartheid: Reflections on Complicity and Memory” Peripherie, vol. 159/160, no. 40 (2020) https://doi.org/10.3224/peripherie.v40i3-4.10

Grunebaum, Heidi. “Debates on Memory Politics and Counter-Memory Practices in South Africa in the 1990s.” Education as Change, vol. 22, no. 2 (2018), special issue Community and Activist Archives https://doi.org/10.25159/1947-9417/3777

Gurney, Kim. “The Mogul, His Meerkat, and the Meerkat’s Second Life.” e-flux Architecture (Dec. 2021) https://www.e-flux.com/architecture/workplace/430308/the-mogul-his-meerkat-and-the-meerkat-s-second-life/

Gurney, Kim. “Offscreen: Making It and Faking It.” Writingplace Journal, Reading(s) and Writing(s), vol. 3 (2019) https://doi.org/10.7480/writingplace.3.4354

Gurney, Kim. Introductory to “Decolonizing Your Island Imaginary: Preparations for a Novella in Four Parts” by Hélène Frichot, Writingplace Journal, Reading(s) and Writing(s), vol. 3, 2019 https://doi.org/10.7480/writingplace.3.4352

Gurney, Kim.“Zombie monument: Public art and Performing the Present.” Urban Geography of the Arts, vol. 77 (2018) special issue Cities, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cities.2017.11.002

Hadebe, Rutendo. Review of Elusive Jannah: The Somali Diaspora and Borderless Muslim Identity by Cawo M. Abdi (University of Minnesota Press), Refuge: Canada’s Journal on Refugees, vol. 34, no. 2 (2018) https://doi.org/10.7202/1055587ar

Hayes, Patricia, and Iona Gilburt. “Other Lives of the Image.” Kronos: Southern African Histories, vol. 46 (Nov. 2020), special issue Other Lives of the Image http://dx.doi.org/10.17159/2309-9585/2020/v46a1

Hayes, Patricia. “Memory Burns.” Signals: UWC Research Magazine, edition 1 (Nov. 2020) https://www.uwc.ac.za/study/research-and-innovation/signals-research-magazine

Hayes, Patricia. “Photographic Publics and Photographic Desires in 1980s South Africa.” Photographies, vol.  10, vol. 3 (Autumn 2017), special issue 1980’s Photography https://doi.org/10.1080/17540763.2017.1340736

Hayes, Patricia. “The Production of Red: Aesthetics, Work and Time.” Kronos, vol 42 (2016), special issue Red Assembly: The Work Remains http://dx.doi.org/10.17159/2309-9585/2016/v42a6

Hayes, Patricia. “Zenzo Nkobi, ZAPU Photographer: Exile, Visibility and the Anteroom of War in Zambia, 1977–1980.” Journal of Southern African Studies, vol. 46, no. 5 (2020) https://doi.org/10.1080/03057070.2020.1805196

Highman, Kate. “(Dis) Avowals of Tradition: The Question of Plagiarism in Zakes Mda’s The Heart of Redness.” Research in African Literatures, vol. 47, no. 3 (Fall 2016) https://doi.org/10.2979/reseafrilite.47.3.08

Kondo, Tinashe. “Judicial Overreach in Protecting the Right to Housing in South Africa? A Review of Fisher v Unlawful Occupiers, Erf 150, Phillipi.” ESR Review, vol. 19 (2018) https://hdl.handle.net/10520/EJC-15b29673d6

Kondo, Tinashe. “Socio-economic Rights in Post-Mugabe Zimbabwe.” Economic & Social Rights Review in Africa, vol. 19 (2018).

Kondo, Tinashe. “Socio-economic rights in Zimbabwe: Trends and emerging jurisprudence” in African Human Rights Law Journal, vol. 17, no. 1 (2017) http://dx.doi.org/10.17159/1996-2096/2017/v17n1a8

Lalu, Premesh. “An Archive of the Future.” Signals: UWC Research Magazine, edition 1 (Nov. 2020) https://www.uwc.ac.za/study/research-and-innovation/signals-research-magazine

Lalu, Premesh. “Between History and Apocalypse: Stumbling” Arts and Humanities in Higher Education, vol. 15, no. 1 (2016) https://doi.org/10.1177/1474022215613607

Lalu, Premesh. “Breaking the Mold of Disciplinary Area Studies.” Africa Today, vol. 63, no. 2 (Winter 2016) https://doi.org/10.2979/africatoday.63.2.18

Lalu, Premesh. “The Enchantment of Freedom at the University of the Western Cape.” Signals: UWC Research Magazine, edition 1 (Nov. 2020) https://www.uwc.ac.za/study/research-and-innovation/signals-research-magazine

Lalu, Premesh. “Thinking Across Hemispheres: Further Notes on Oversights and Blind Spots in Disciplinary African Studies.” Afrika Focus, vol. 31, no. 2 (2018) https://ojs.ugent.be/AF/article/view/9896

Lalu, Premesh. “Unlearning History: Europe in the Wake of African Political Thought.” Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East, vol. 36, no.1 (May 2016) https://muse.jhu.edu/article/615059

Lalu, Premesh. “What is the University For?” Critical Times, vol. 2, no. 1 (2019) https://doi.org/10.1215/26410478-7615003

Longford, Samuel. “Governing the Ungovernable: Performing and Contesting Chris Hani’s Legacy at the Hani Memorial.” Journal of southern African Studies, vol. 46, no. 5 (2020) https://doi.org/10.1080/03057070.2020.1785179

Longford, Samuel. “Putting Gestures to Work: Georges Didi-Huberman, Uprisings.” Kronos: Southern African Histories, vol. 46 (Nov. 2020), special edition Other Lives of the Image https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6905-5374

Lusaka, Mwayi. “Memory, Oral History and Conservation at Robben Island’s Bluestone Quarry.” South African Historical Journal, vol. 69, no. 4 (2017) https://doi.org/10.1080/02582473.2017.1359329

Mamdani, Mahmood, Lyn Ossome, Suren Pillay (eds), “Our Mission”, The MISR Review, vol. 1, no. 1 (2016).

Marco, Derilene. Review of I Afrikaner, directed by Annalet Steenkamp. African Studies Review, vol. 60, no. 1 (2017) https://doi.org/10.1017/asr.2017.40

Marneweck, Aja. “On the 10-year Anniversary of the Barrydale Giant Puppet Parade South Africa: A Conversation Between Parade Creative Directors Aja Marneweck and Sudonia Kouter.” Applied Theatre Research, vol. 8, no. 1 (2020) https://doi.org/10.1386/atr_00024_1

Marneweck, Aja. “The Barrydale Giant Puppet Parade: Mobilising Creative Ecologies in the Klein Karoo, South Africa.” Research in Drama Education: The Journal of Applied Theatre and Performance, vol. 25, no. 2 (2020, first published online 2019) https://doi.org/10.1080/13569783.2019.1692654

Marneweck, Aja. “Mobilizing a New Universal: The Walking art of Giant Puppetry.” Manip: Le Journal de la Marionnette, vol. 66 (2021)

Munguambe, Clinarete. “Nationalism and Exile in an Age of Solidarity: Frelimo–ZANU Relations in Mozambique (1975–1980).” Journal of Southern African Studies, vol. 43, no. 1 (2017) https://doi.org/10.1080/03057070.2017.1273537

Naidoo, Kiasha. “Neoliberalism’s Last Breath: Thinking Politico-economic Well-being During and Beyond COVID-19” Revista de Filosofie Aplicată, vol. 3 (Summer 2020) http://filosofieaplicata.ro/index.php/filap/article/view/67/40

Naidoo, Kiasha. Review of Pandemic! COVID-19 Shakes the World, by Slavoj Žižek (OR Books), Teaching Philosophy, vol. 44, no. 3 (2021) https://doi.org/10.5840/teachphil2021443151

Ndhlovu, Bongani. “Reconnoitring Alternative Forms of Resistance to Apartheid South Africa, c 1966-1979 and Beyond: A Case of An Individual.” South African Historical Journal, vol. 69, no. 2 (2017) https://doi.org/10.1080/02582473.2016.1271007

Nefdt, Ryan M. “The Ontology of Words: a Structural Approach.” Inquiry, vol. 62, no. 8 (2019) https://doi.org/10.1080/0020174X.2018.1562967

Nefdt, Ryan M. “Why Philosophers should do Semantics (and a bit of syntax too): a Reply to Cappelen.” Review of Philosophy and Psychology, vol. 10, no.1 (2019) https://doi.org/10.1007/s13164-018-0396-1

Nefdt, Ryan M. Review of Recursion: A Computational Investigation into the Representation and Processing of Language, by David Lobina (Oxford University Press), The Philosophical Quarterly, vol. 69, no. 274 (2019).

Nefdt, Ryan M. Review of Semantics, Metasemantics, Aboutness, by Ori Simchen (Oxford University Press), The Philosophical Quarterly, vol. 69, no. 277 (2019) https://doi.org/10.1093/pq/pqz007

Nefdt, Ryan M. Review of The Social Evolution of Human Nature: From Biology to Language, by Harry Smit (Cambridge University Press), The Philosophical Quarterly. vol. 69, no. 277 (2019) https://doi.org/10.1093/pq/pqz010

Nony, Anaïs. “Against Walt Disney’s Corporate Education: Walter Breckenridge’s Nature Films as Scientific Investigation.” The Moving Image: The Journal of the Association of Moving Image Archivists, vol. 19, no. 1 (Spring 2019) https://doi.org/10.5749/movingimage.19.1.0118

Nony, Anaïs. “Technologies of Neo-Colonial Epistemes.” Philosophy Today, vol. 63, no. 3 (2019) https://doi.org/10.5840/philtoday20191111292

Pillay, Suren. “The Humanities to Come: Thinking the World from Africa.” Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East, vol. 37, no. 1 (2017) https://doi.org/10.1215/1089201x-3821369 

Pillay, Suren. “The Problem of Colonialism: Assimilation, Difference, and Decolonial Theory in Africa.” Critical Times, vol. 4, no. 3 (Dec. 2021) https://doi.org/10.1215/26410478-9355201

Pillay, Suren. Review of The Impossible Machine: A Genealogy of South Africa’s Truth and Reconciliation Commission by Adam Sitze (University of Michigan Press), Law and Society, vol. 50, no. 3 (2016) https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/lasr.12222 

Pillay, Suren. “Thinking the State from Africa: Political Theory, Eurocentrism and Concrete Politics.” Politikon: South African Journal of Political Studies, vol. 45, no. 1 (2018) https://doi.org/10.1080/02589346.2018.1418203

Pillay, Suren, and Carlos Fernandes. “Transmission, Obligation and Movement: An Interview with Souleymane Bachir Diagne.” Social Dynamics, vol. 42, no. 3 (2016) https://doi.org/10.1080/02533952.2016.1264094

Scott, Lwando. “Inxeba (The Wound), Queerness and Xhosa Culture.” Journal of African Cultural Studies, vol. 33, no. 1 (2021, first published Dec. 2020) https://doi.org/10.1080/13696815.2020.1792278

Scott, Lwando. Review of Ambiguous Pleasures: Sexuality and Middle Class Self-perceptions in Nairobi, by Rachel Spronk (Berghahn Books), Africa, vol. 90 , no. 3 (May 2020) https://doi.org/10.1017/S0001972020000157

Scott, Lwando. Review of The Long Emancipation: Moving toward Black Freedom, by Rinaldo Walcott (Duke University Press) https://www.publicbooks.org/black-freedom-is-the-seed-for-all-freedom/

Smith, Michelle. “Interment: Re-framing the Death of the Red Location Museum Building (2006-2013).” Kronos: Southern African Histories, vol. 42 (2016) http://dx.doi.org/10.17159/2309-9585/2016/v42a10

Sweet, Paige. “Marking Locality: Inscribing Gendered Subjectivity through Kgebetli Moele’s Untitled.” Ariel: A Review of International English Literature, vol. 47, no. 1-2 (2016) https://doi.org/10.1353/ari.2016.0007

Sweet, Paige. “The Renewed Work of Copies.” Parallax, vol. 22, no. 2 (2016) https://doi.org/10.1080/13534645.2016.1175066

Sykes, Pam, and Daniela Gachago. “Creating ‘safe-ish’ Learning Spaces – Attempts to Practice an Ethics of Care.” South African Journal of Higher Education, vol. 32, no. 6 (2018) https://doi.org/10.20853/32-6-2654

Taylor, Jane “Occupational hazards.” Kronos: Southern African Histories, vol. 43 (2017), special issue What is the university in Africa for? http://dx.doi.org/10.17159/2309-9585/2017/v43a8

Taylor, Jane. “PAN: A Performance Lecture.” Critical Times, vol. 2, no. 3 (2019) https://doi.org/10.1215/26410478-7862576

Taylor, Jane. “Shadow of the Object May be a Sound Seeing Voices in William Kentridge,” on the Kentridge exhibition at the ZeitzMOCAA and Norval Museums, ArtAfrica, 2019 https://artafricamagazine.org/the-shadow-of-the-object-may-be-a-sound-seeing-voices-in-william-kentridge/

Tollon, Fabio, and Kiasha Naidoo. “On and Beyond Artifacts in Moral Relations: Accounting for Power and Violence in Coeckelbergh’s Social Relationism.” AI & SOCIETY (2021) https://doi.org/10.1007/s00146-021-01303-z

Treffry-Goatley, Astrid, Richard Lessells, Pam Sykes, et al. “Understanding Specific Contexts of Antiretroviral Therapy Adherence in Rural South Africa: A Thematic Analysis of Digital Stories from a Community with High HIV Prevalence.” PLOS ONE, vol. 11, no. 2 (2016) https://dx.doi.org/10.1371%2Fjournal.pone.0148801

Tropp, Jacob. “Transnational Development Training and Native American ‘Laboratories’ in the Early Cold War.” Journal of Global History, vol. 13, no. 3 (Nov. 2018) https://doi.org/10.1017/S1740022818000244

Truscott, Ross “Dreaming from the Perspective of Everyone” Subjectivity, vol. 13 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1057/s41286-020-00110-z

Truscott, Ross, and Maurits van Bever Donker. “What is the University in Africa for?” Kronos: South African Histories, vol. 43 (2017), special issue What is the University in Africa for? http://dx.doi.org/10.17159/2309-9585/2017/v43a2

Truscott, Ross, and Michelle Smith. “Aftershocks: Psychotechnics in the Wake of Apartheid.” Parallax, vol. 22, no.2 (2016) https://doi.org/10.1080/13534645.2016.1175057

Truscott, Ross. “A Rattle: On the Other Frontier, and Chabani Manganyi’s ‘Making Strange.’” Psychology in Society, vol. 57 (2018) https://www.pins.org.za/issue.php?num=57

Truscott, Ross. “Empathy’s Echo: Post-apartheid Fellow Feeling.” Safundi: The Journal of South African and American Studies, vol. 17, no. 2 (2016) https://doi.org/10.1080/17533171.2016.1172825

Truscott, Ross. “Postapartheid Rhythm: Beyond Apartheid Beatings.” Subjectivity, vol. 9 (2016) https://doi.org/10.1057/s41286-016-0004-8

Truscott, Ross. “The Dream of the Royal Road: Psychoanalysis and the Post” Cultural Critique, vol. 108 (Summer 2020), https://doi.org/10.5749/culturalcritique.108.2020.0069

Truscott, Ross. Review of Ambivalent: Photography and Visibility in African History, Patricia Hayes and Gary Minkley (eds). Kronos: Southern African Histories, vol. 46 (Nov. 2020), special edition Other Lives of the Image http://dx.doi.org/10.17159/2309-9585/2020/v46a16

Truscott, Ross. Review of Psychodynamic Psychotherapy in South Africa: Contexts, Theories and Applications by Cora Smith, Glenys Lobban and Michael O’Loughlin (eds), Psychoanalysis, Culture and Society, vol. 22, (2016) https://doi.org/10.1057/s41282-016-0001-4

Van Bever Donker, Maurits. “The ‘Rough Edge of Deterritorialisation’: Contemplation.” Parallax, vol. 22, no. 2 (2016) https://doi.org/10.1080/13534645.2016.1175071

Van der Rede, Lauren. “Disappeared to Ethiopia’s Bermuda: Tales by a Puppet.” Kronos 44 (Dec. 2018) http://dx.doi.org/10.17159/2309-9585/2018/v44a12

Van der Rede, Lauren. “Rwanda: A Time.” Canadian Review of Comparative Literature / Revue Canadienne de Littérature Comparée, vol. 45, no. 4, (2018) Project MUSE http://doi.org/10.1353/crc.2018.0060