Research Report 2006
Head of Department: Associate Professor David Cooper
Departmental Profile
The department has a team of active researchers with growing clusters of research groupings formed around staff members and their Masters and PhD students. During the past few years including 2006 a range of peer-reviewed journal articles but also a considerable number of books, research and consultancy reports, and public articles and presentations in the arena of national and local debate have been produced.
Research projects currently underway or recently completed in the Department, most with a South African and comparative focus, include work on: land tenure reform and traditional authorities; development of social movements; workers' experiences of recent social change in South Africa; health policies and medical facilities with particular orientation to the HIV/Aids pandemic; democracy and inequality in comparative perspective; industrial restructuring, unemployment, skills development and job creation; export agriculture and globalization; "race", identity and diversity in South Africa; diversity management; dynamics of corporate culture and managerial identity; organizational transformation; higher education transformation and research development; pedagogics in higher education; urbanisation, social dynamics and inequality; the nature of sociology; issues in social research methods.
The editors of two accredited SA social science journals, "Social Dynamics" and "South African Review of Sociology" are members of the department, with one of these also serving as co-editor of the “International Journal of Urban and Regional Research” published in Oxford.
Departmental Statistics
Permanent and long-term contract staff
Professors
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3
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Associate Professors
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4
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Senior Lecturers
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5
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Lecturers
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1
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Research Staff
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1
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Admin and Clerical Staff
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2
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Total
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16
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Students
Doctoral
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13
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Masters
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27
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Honours
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34
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Undergraduates
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1275
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Total
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1349
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Research Fields and Staff
Professor Owen Crankshaw
Racial and class divisions; sociology of housing and labour markets and the relationship between urbanisation, housing and employment
Professor Johann Maree
Industrial relations and industrial strategy; worker participation: skills development
Professor Jeremy Seekings
Political sociology; sociology of law; social stratification; welfare policy
Associate Professor David Cooper
Research development in higher education; students in the South African higher education system
Associate Professor Ken Jubber
Evolutionary theory; social theory; history of sociology, philosophy of sociological knowledge
Associate Professor Lungisile Ntsebeza
Rural development; traditional authorities; land rights; rural/urban linkages; land and the struggle against poverty
Associate Professor Melissa Steyn
Whiteness; diversity and otherness; social identities; intercultural communication; social transformation
Dr Zimitri Erasmus
Senior Lecturer; understanding 'race' and racism; coloured identities; organisational transformation
Dr Johann de V. Graaff
Senior lecturer; development theory; teaching sociology; rural education
Dr Jonathan Grossman
Senior lecturer; development of workers' movement; Marxist theory and practice
Dr Judith Head
Senior lecturer; Migrant labour; political economy of Mozambique; sociology of health; HIV/Aids
Dr David Lincoln
Senior lecturer; international division of labour; plantation agriculture; environmentalism
Dr Jacques de Wet
Lecturer; methodological issues in quantitative and qualitative research; social change, values and identities in post-Apartheid South Africa; people-centred development theory and practice
Contact Details
Postal Address: Department of Sociology, University of Cape Town, Private Bag X3, Rondebosch, 7701
Telephone: +27 21 650 3501
Fax: +27 21 689 7576
E-mail: socio@humanities.uct.ac.za
Research Output
ARTICLES IN PEER-REVIEWED JOURNALS
Boraine, A., Crankshaw, O., Engelbrecht, C., Gotz, G., Mbanga, S., Narsoo, M. and Parnell, S. 2006. The state of South African cities a decade after democracy. Urban Studies, 43(2): 259-284.
Cooper, D.M. 2006. International restructuring of higher education: Comments on implications of global trends for restructuring of sociology in South Africa. South African Review of Sociology, 37(2): 260-292.
Godfrey, S.D., Maree, J.G.B. and Theron, J.P. 2006. Flexibility in bargaining councils: The role of exemptions. Industrial Law Journal Including Industrial Law Reports, 27(July): 1368-1386.
Godfrey, S.D., Maree, J.G.B. and Theron, J.P. 2006. Regulating the labour market: The role of bargaining councils. Industrial Law Journal Including Industrial Law Reports, 27(April): 731-752.
Graaff, J.F.D.V. 2006. Foucault's functionalism: The seductions of determinism in development theory. Third World Quarterly, 27(8): 1387-1400.
Jubber, K.C. 2006. Reflections on canons, compilations, catalogues and curricula in relation to sociology and sociology in South Africa. South African Review of Sociology, 37(2): 321-342.
Lincoln, M.D. 2006. Beyond the plantation: Mauritius in the global division of labour. Journal of Modern African Studies, 44(1): 59-78.
Maree, J.G.B. 2006. Rebels with causes: White officials in black trade unions in South Africa, 1973-94. Current Sociology, 54(3): 453-467.
Maree, J.G.B. 2006. Similarities and differences between rebels with and without a cause. Current Sociology, 54(3): 473-475.
Pai, P.Y. and Jubber, K.C. 2006. Taiwanese migrants and apartheid: Learning about and making sense of racial and racist discourse and pratices in apartheid South Africa. International Journal of Diversity in Organizations, Communities and Nations, 5(3): 153-162.
Seekings, J.F. 2006. Beyond heroes and villains: The rediscovery of the ordinary in the study of childhood and adolescence in South Africa. Social Dynamics - A Journal of the Centre for African Studies University of Cape Town, 32(1): 1-20.
Seekings, J.F. 2006. Employment guarantee or minimum income? Workfare and welfare in developing countries. International Journal of the Environment, Workplace and Employment, 2(1): 44-68.
Seekings, J.F. 2006. Partisan realignment in Cape Town, 1994-2004. Journal of African Elections, 5(1): 176-203.
CHAPTERS IN BOOKS
Grossman, J. 2006. Grounding dreams of hope across time and space: An essay. In B. Wingard (ed.), Livslang nyfikenhet: 98-109. Stockholm: HLS Forlag.
Grossman, J. 2006. World Bank thinking, world class institutions, denigrated workers. In R. Pithouse (ed.), Asinimali. University struggles in post-apartheid South Africa: 93-108. Trenton, NJ 08607: Africa World Press, Inc.
Ntsebeza, L. 2006. Rural development in South Africa: Tensions between democracy and traditional authority. In V. Padayachee (ed.), The development decade? Economic and social change in South Africa, 1994-2004: 444-460. Cape Town: HSRC.
Ntsebeza, L. 2006. Slow delivery in South Africa's Land Reform Programme: The property clause revisited. In A. Alexander (ed.), Articulations: A Harold Wolpe Memorial Lecture Collection: 77-87. Trenton and Asmara: Africa World Press Inc.
Wotshela, L., Kepe, T., Ntsebeza, L., Matoti, S.M. and Ainslie, A. 2006. Resistance and repression in the Bantustans: Transkei and Ciskei. In SADET (ed.), The road to democracy in South Africa: Volume 2 (1970-1980): 177-209. Pretoria: Unisa Press.
THESES AND DISSERTATIONS PASSED FOR HIGHER DEGREES
Cristando, R. 2006. Can a mega-event be developmental? A case study of Cape Town as it prepares for the 2010 World Cup: 101. MPhil (Development Studies).
Galt, K.M. 2006. 'Exploring the Unconsciousness of Process' at Elgin Community College: Towards a grounded theory for project leadership in social development: 1-109. Masters.
Howell, C.J. 2006. Equity, difference and the nature of the academic environment: An investigation into the responses of South African universities to the admission and participation of disabled students: 1-220. PhD.
Jacobs, C.L. 2006. Socio-historical research and land tenure in South Africa: A case study of land tenure rights on the Northern Cape farm of Melkkraal: 171. MPhil (Public Policy).
Le Fleur, C.C. 2005. Residential desegregation in Cape Town: 1-52. Masters.
Mcnab, E. 2006. Analysing the neglect of men in the response to HIV/AIDS in South Africa: Is the 'Men as Partners' programme paving the way forward?: 1-115. MPhil.
Faull, A. 2006. "Because the country says they have to change": An analysis of a diversity intervention and its effects on a South African Police Service station: 96. Masters of Philosophy in Diversity Studies.
Sait, W. 2006. Nurturing the sexuality of disabled girls: The challenges of parenting for mothers: 200. MPhil in Disability Studies.
Smith, P. 2006. Recent spatial trends in post-Fordist Cape Town: 1-90. Masters.
Ziervogel, L. 2006. Occupational mobility among blacks in the Mitchell’s Plain magisterial district: 1-127. Master of Arts.
UNIVERSITY PUBLICATIONS AND WORKS OF A POPULAR NATURE
Godfrey, S.D., Maree, J.G.B. and Theron, J.P. 2006. Conditions of Employment and Small Business: Coverage, Compliance and Exemptions. DPRU Working Paper 06/106 (ISBN 1-920055 25 8): 1-102
Ndlovu, V. 2006. Gender and reporductive decision making among couples with HIV/AIDS in Bulawayo, Zimbabwe. CSSR Working Paper 171
Ndlovu, V. 2006. The impact of HAART on the reproductive decision making process of HIV positive people in Bulawayo, Zimbabwe. CSSR Working Paper 172
EXTENSION AND DEVELOPMENT WORK
Faull, G. and Steyn, M.E. 2006. "Because the country says they have to change": An analysis of a diversity intervention in a South African Police Servie (SAPS) station. iNCUDISA. Sociology, UCT.
Steyn, M.E., Erasmus, Z.E. and De Wet, J.P. 2006. Not naming "race": Some medical students' experiences and perceptions of "race' and racism at the Health Sciences Faculty of the University of Cape Town. iNCUDISA. Sociology, UCT.
Van Zyl, M. and Steyn, M.E. 2006. Networks of Accountability: HIV/AIDS action research in action on Western Cape Farms. iNCUDISA. Sociology, UCT.
CONSULTANCY AND OTHER ACTIVITIES BASED ON EXPERTISE DEVELOPED IN RESEARCH
Cooper, D.M. 2006. Workshop presentation to research committee of University of Johannesburg, on "Research groups and research centres: types of groups and their effectiveness".
UCT Libraries
Research Report 2006
Executive Director: Ms Joan Rapp
Departmental Profile
In addition to providing academic information services to UCT students and staff, librarians contribute to research in their areas of subject specialisation and in topics related to Library and Information Science and related areas such as intellectual property and copyright.
Research Fields and Staff
Mrs Tanya Barben
Senior Librarian, Rare Books and Special Collections Department; Eastern Cape history in literature
Mrs Veronica Belling
Senior Librarian, Jewish Studies Library; Yiddish; South African Jewish history
Mr Lubabalo Booi
Librarian; Brand van Zyl Law Library; researching Botswanan law
Dr Colin Darch
Senior Information Specialist; librarianship; freedom of information; copyright; contemporary Mozambiquan history
Mrs Lesley Hart
Head, Special Collections Information Services; South African archival resources;
digitisation of historic materials
Ms Sandra Shell
Head Librarian, African Studies Library; Eastern Cape mission history
Contact Details
Postal Address: UCT Libraries, University of Cape Town, Private Bag X3, Rondebosch, 7701
Telephone: +27 21 650 3134
Fax : +27 21 689 7568
E-mail: selref@uctlib.uct.ac.za
Web: http://www.lib.uct.ac.za
Research Output
ARTICLES IN PEER-REVIEWED JOURNALS
Barben, T.A.E. 2006. 'Ubuntu ngumntu ngabantu': A person is a person because of other persons: The ethos of the pre-colonial Xhosa-speaking people as presented in fact and young adult fiction. Quarterly Bulletin of the National Library of South Africa, 60(1-2): 4-20.
Belling, V. 2006. A new bibliography of Jewish memorial books. Jewish Affairs, 61(3): 53-54.
Belling, V. 2006. In her own language: Ozer Bloshteyn’s cookbook for Jewish women. Jewish Affairs, 61(1): 44-50.
Belling, V. 2006. Yiddish theatre in South Africa. Jewish Affairs, 61(4): 5-16.
Belling, V. 2006. Yiddish writing in South Africa: Leibl Feldman’s radical history of Johannesburg Jewry. Journal for the Study of Religion, 19(2): 63-76.
Prentice, W. and Hart, L.C. 2006. Bleek & Kirby Collections: Restoring the wax cylinders. IASA Journal, 27: 73-76.
BOOKS
Story, A. and Darch, C. 2006. The Copy/South Dossier: Issues in the economics, politics and ideology of copyright in the global south: 208. Canterbury, UK: Copy/South Research Group.
CHAPTERS IN BOOKS
Darch, C. 2006. Burundi and Rwanda. In D.S. Lewis (ed.), The annual register: World events 2005: 243-245. Bethesda, MD, USA: Cambridge Information Group.
Darch, C. 2006. Democratic Republic of Congo. In D.S. Lewis (ed.), The annual register: World events 2005: 241-243. Bethesda, MD, USA: Cambridge Information Group.
Darch, C. 2006. Mozambique. In D.S. Lewis (ed.), The annual register: World events 2005: 246-247. Bethesda, MD, USA: Cambridge Information Group.
Darch, C. 2006. Soviet and Russian research on Ethiopia and eastern Africa: A second look in the context of the area studies crisis. In M. Matusevich (ed.), Africa in Russia, Russia in Africa: Three centuries of encounters: 133-151. Trenton, NJ, USA: Africa World Press.
Shell, S.C. 2006. Bibliographies of bondage: Selected bibliographies on slavery, abolition and the societies of the Cape of Good Hope, 1652 to 1910. In R.C.-H. Shell (ed.), From diaspora to diorama: The old Slave Lodge in Cape Town: 815-975. Cape Town: Ancestry 24.
Shell, S.C. 2006. Liberating Petronella Lambertsz. In R.C.-H. Shell (ed.), From diaspora to diorama: The old Slave Lodge in Cape Town: 577-589. Cape Town: Ancestry 24.
THESES AND DISSERTATIONS PASSED FOR HIGHER DEGREES
Shell, S.C. 2006. A missionary life among the amaXhosa: The Eastern Cape journals of James Laing, 1830-1836: 546. M.A. (Historical Studies).
ONLINE WORKS
Barben, T.A.E. 2006. The sapling that grew into a tree: 100 years of the University of Cape Town Libraries. http://www.lib.uct.ac.za/index.php?html=/2004/info.
Booi, L. 2006. Botswana's legal system and legal research. http://www.nyulawglobal.org/globalex/Botswana.htm.
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