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An Ethnographic Study on Heritage Preservation in Bo-Kaap

Author: Correia, Shannon Date: 2020 This research paper analyses the culture and community in Bo-Kaap, which is battling to preserve its heritage amid growing gentrification. Gentrification in this area is analysed as a special case in point, as although gentrification is ... Read more
Citizenship without representation? Blackface, misogyny and parody in Die Antwoord, Lupé Fiasco and Angel Haze

Author: Haupt, Adam Date: 2013 This article explores Die Antwoord's blackface politics to question whether the concept of citizenship has any value in a context where marginal artists’ attempts to represent themselves on their own terms are overshadowed by the global reach ... Read more
Communicative freedom in a digital democracy: political and economic resistance to freedom of speech and the rise of digital activism in South Africa

Author: Brevis, Chad Date: 2022 This dissertation explores political and economic resistance to communicative freedom in South Africa. Through a mixed methodology of Critical Discourse Analysis and Corpus Linguistics analysis, this dissertation seeks to explore how our ... Read more
The construction of the text, the production of multiple personae and the construction of the self on Bob Dylan's album, Blood on the tracks

Author: Erfort, Michael David Date: 2013 The construction of the text, the making of multiple personae and the construction of the self on Bob Dylan's album, Blood on the Tracks. Using arguments by theorists such as Roland Barthes, Jacques Derrida, Julia Kristeva and, more importantly, ... Read more
Discursive practices around film and music piracy in selected newspaper articles and radio broadcasts in South Africa

Author: Musundwa, Sibongile C Date: 2015 This thesis analyses South African news media discourses on piracy to consider whether corporate interests or those of civil society are served by stories about copyright infringement and piracy awareness campaigns. This thesis employs critical ... Read more
Games, copyright, piracy : South African gamers' perspectives

Author: Malczyk, Anna Date: 2010 This thesis examines video games, copyright law and gamers' attitudes to copyright infringement, with particular reference to South Africa. The work provides an overview of the debates about copyright law and digital media, and offers an ... Read more
Hip-Hop activism in post-Apartheid South Africa

Author: Haupt, Adam Date: 29 Sep 2014 ‘Why should I fight for a country’s glory/When it ignores me?/Besides, the township’s already a war zone/So why complain or moan?’ The opening lines from Prophets of da City’s (POC) 1993 song Understand where I’m coming from expressed a ... Read more c b n d
"I'm not going to let the patriarch stop me!": Examining the Obsession with Muslim Women's Bodies, Voices and Veils in Cinema, Television & Popular Culture

Author: Behardien, Thaakirah Date: 2022 Historically, Muslim female bodies have been a key focus of attention in colonial and patriarchal discursive practices. This colonial and patriarchal desire to control Muslim women's bodies ± and, by extension, their voice ± is rooted in ... Read more
Part IV: Is Die Antwoord Blackface?

Author: Haupt, Adam Date: 2012 Is Die Antwoord blackface? In a word, yes. During an interview in the US, Waddy Jones reportedly said, ‘‘God made a mistake with me. I’m actually black, trapped in a white body.’’87 Jones’ claim is consistent with his lyrics on ‘‘Never le ... Read more
The political economy of wilkiality: a South African inquiry into knowledge and power on wikipedia

Author: Ovesen, Håvard Date: 2014 This dissertation explores how knowledge construction on the English-language Wikipedia produces hegemonic representations of South Africa. Using Wikipedia's entries on Cape Town and various places in the Free State province as case studies, ... Read more
Remixing the tech: the digital media ecologies of the hip-hop artists from Grahamstown, South Africa

Author: Schoon, Alette Jeanne Date: 2017 This ethnographic study describes the digital media ecologies of hip-hop artists in the marginalised township spaces of a town in South Africa. It shows how technology appropriation here is highly contextual and linked to social context, while ... Read more
Respectability and shame: the depiction of coloured, female murderers in the Daily Voice and Son tabloids - 2008 to 2012

Author: Samson, Sean Date: 2014 This work analyses the depiction of coloured women on trial for murder in South Africa’s Western Cape tabloids, the Daily Voice and Son. It argues that these depictions preserve conservative race, class, and gender norms. The coverage of the ... Read more
Sense of Style: constructing identity and managing impressions on Lookbook.nu

Author: Slemang, Zainab Date: 2016 This dissertation aims to explore how user-generated fashion content within the specific online community of Lookbook.nu is influenced by a set of underlying ideologies, such as beauty, power and gender to create specific and homogenous fashion ... Read more
South African art history: the possibility of decolonising a discourse

Author: Becker, Danielle Loraine Date: 2017 In light of recent calls to decolonise curricula at South African universities there has been a renewed interest in what decolonisation might specifically imply for particular academic disciplines. Art history in South Africa has long struggled ... Read more
South African film music: representation of racial, cultural and national identities, 1931-1969

Author: Jeffery, Christopher Date: 2017 The thesis examines the role of music in South African film pertaining to representation of identity of South African peoples and cultures, from the country's earliest sound films until the industry expansion of the 1970s. Chapter 1 contextualizes ... Read more
Stealing Empire : debates about global capital, counter-culture, technology and intellectual property

Author: Haupt, Adam Date: 2005 This thesis examines the agency of marginalised subjects in the context of global capitalism and the information age. The key question that is addressed is whether transnational corporations have appropriated aspects of cultural identity, ... Read more
Stealing Empire: P2P, intellectual property and hip-hop subversion

Author: Haupt, Adam Date: 2010 Stealing Empire poses the question, ""What possibilities for agency exist in the age of corporate globalisation?"" Using the work of Antonio Negri and Michael Hardt as a point of entry, Adam Haupt delves into varied terrain to locate answers ... Read more c b n