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UCT Research Report '11
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Research Output
Edited books
Okech, A. and Olonisakin, F. (eds) 2011. Women and
Security Governance in Africa. 172pp. Pambazuka Press.
ISBN 9781906387891.
Chapters in books
Bennett, J. 2011. Subversion and resistance: activist
initiatives. In S. Tamale (ed.), African Sexualities: A
Reader, pp. 77-100. Oxford: Pambazuka Press. ISBN
9780857490162.
Articles in Peer-reviewed Journals
Bennett, J., Muhanguzi, F.K. and Muhanguzi, H.R.D. 2011.
The Construction and Mediation of Sexuality and Gender
Relations: Experiences of Girls and Boys in Secondary
Schools in Uganda. Feminist Formations, 23(3): 135-152.
Tamale, S. and Bennett, J. 2011. Editorial: Legal Voice:
Challenges and Prospects in the Documentation of African
legal feminism. Feminist Africa, 15: 1-15.
Centre for African
Studies
Director: Associate Professor Harry Garuba
Centre Profile
The goals of the Centre are to encourage and
co-ordinate teaching and research in the various fields
concerned with people in Africa, as well as developing
African Studies graduate courses and programmes.
We also provide service courses for non-Humanities
students, such as Engineers and Architects, at both
undergraduate and postgraduate levels. At the core
of our teaching and research is our intellectual project
of examining the ways in which knowledge of Africa
has been constructed in a range of discourses that cut
across a number of disciplines. Within this forum, our
courses cover themes such as the representation of
Africa across a number of media in both popular culture
and in academic disciplines. In this regard, we provide
a critical understanding of how knowledge in and about
Africa has been filtered through the colonial library. In
addition, the Centre’s activities include producing the
journal,
Social Dynamics
, holding regular seminars,
workshops and forums for debate and providing a
venue for performances, art exhibitions and film.
Centre Statistics
Permanent and long-term contract staff
Professors
0
Associate Professors
2
Lecturers
1
Senior Secretary
1
Permanent Administrative Staff
1
Total
5
Students
Doctoral
4
Master’s
12
Honours
5
Diploma
2
Undergraduate
220
Total
243
Research Fields and Staff
Permanent and long-term contract staff
Associate Professor Harry Garuba
Postcolonial theory and criticism; African and African
diasporic literature; cultural studies.
Associate Professor Nick Shepherd
Archaeology; cultural studies; African and African
diasporic studies; heritage studies.
Contact Details
Postal Address: Centre for African Studies, Harry
Oppenheimer Institute Building, University of Cape Town,
Private Bag, Rondebosch, 7701
Tel: +27 21 650 2308
Fax: +27 21 686 1505
E-mail: cas-africas@uct.ac.za
Web: http://www.africanstudies.uct.ac.za
UCT General enquiries: +27 21 650 9111
UCT web: http://www.uct.ac.za
Research output
Chapters in books
Shepherd, N. 2011. Archaeology Dreaming: Postapartheid
Urban Imaginaries and the Remains of the Prestwich
Street Dead. In Katsuyyki Okamura and Akira Matsuda
(eds), New Perspectives in Global Public Archaeology:
155-166. London: Springer Science & Business Media B.V.
ISBN 978-1-4614-0340-1.