Capital Cities Project Research Project Submissions (Updated: 21 September 2012)
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Faculty of Humanities Capital Cities Project Research Project Submissions (Updated: 21 September 2012) FACULTY OF HUMANITIES Department Researcher/ Lead Researcher Research Projects Anthropology and Dr Detlev Krige (Staff) 1. From producing to risking: The moral economy of Afrikaner finance Archaeology Dr Fraser McNeill (Staff) 2. Ethnographic investigations into aspects of urban Venda identity and its expression through materiality in Sunnyside Joseph Ntabeni (MA student) 3. Drum of Pretoria: Celebration of Differences in South Africa Jimmy Pieterse (MA student) 4. Tracing the history of the first ‘homosexual’ phase of the South African HIV/AIDS epidemic with specific reference to homosexual Afrikaans-speaking men living in Pretoria Benjamin Saccaggi (Staff) 5. Archaeology and the Capital City: The layered histories of a fort, a former leper colony and psychiatric hospital at Daspoortrand, Pretoria Dr Mallika Shakya (Staff) 6. Arcelor Mittal Industrial Cluster in Pretoria West Johannes (Stephan) van Wyk (MA student) 7. Living Exclusively: Kleinfontein and its Implications Department of Drama Dr Myer Taub (Staff) 8. Deliberations on the creation of performance projects that disrupt and transfigure specific and enclosed historical places Department of Historical and Ms Karina Sevenhuysen (Staff) 9. TBC Heritage Studies Department of Modern Dr Stephan Mühr (Staff, HoD) 10. Study of the dynamics of language usage in Pretoria and the challenges and European Language possibilities it entails Department of Music Dr Clorinda Panebianco-Warrens (Staff) 11. The 50-year history of the UP Music Department highlighting its role and contribution towards the on-going development of Arts and Culture in the Capital City Ms Carol Lotter and Ms Andeline dos Santos 12. Use of creative therapeutic strategies for HIV/AIDS and TB counsellors and lay (Staff) community care workers dealing with patient trauma Department of Philosophy Terblanche Delport (MA student) 13. Spaces of Exchange Prof Ulrike Kistner (Staff) 14. Governing Mentalities – A History of Psychiatric Institutions in Pretoria Department of Psychology Dr Linda Blokland (Staff) 15. Itsoseng Clinic: Gender based violence Marna Dreckmeier-Meiring (Staff) 16. Community clinical psychology project: possibilities for future research Mathilda de Preez (Phd candidate) 17. Household electricity use in South Africa: a systemic study of individual intervention Department of Social Work Poppy Mashego (Staff, PhD candidate) 18. The design, implementation and evaluation of a school-based violence prevention and Criminology programme for high school learners in Tshwane South District, Pretoria Busisiwe Nkosi (MSW Student) 19. Poverty reduction: The experiences of men engaged in income generating projects in Ekurhuleni Metropolitan Municipality Siphiwe Mahlangu (MSW Student) 20. The developmental role of social work in local government in the City of Tshwane Metropolitan Municipality Criminology Honours Students 21. Short term adult female offenders Criminology Honours Students 22. An appraisal of the car guard phenomenon in Pretoria Department of Sociology Dr Vasabjit Banerjee (Postdoctoral Fellow) 23. Baker’s Streets: The Shared Spaces of Pretoria and New Delhi Prof Andries Bezuidenhout and Prof Sakhela 24. Pretoria’s mining hinterland Buhlungu (Staff) Kgomotso Ramushu (MA student) 25. Carving out space for dreaming: ‘urban renewal’ and the working classes of inner city Tshwane Department of Visual Arts Prof Jeanne van Eeden (Staff, HoD) 26. New spaces of consumption in Pretoria Prof Elfriede Dreyer (Staff) 27. History and environmental conditions of the Apies River, Pretoria/Tshwane Prof Lize Kriel (Staff) 28. Print cultures and text-as-image in the Capital City Isaac Seoka, Nicola Grobler, Pieter 29. Public Art History of Pretoria: the cultural hybrid, critical spaces, monuments and Swanepoel, Prof Elfriede Dreyer, Guy du changes Toit, Angus Taylor and Prof Margaret Slabbert (Staff) Institute for Women and Prof Elaine Salo (Staff, Director) 30. How young women manage, navigate or challenge local notions of feminine Gender Studies personhood in areas such as Eersterust, Atteridgeville and Shoshanguve as they occupy erstwhile exclusive spaces such as the inner city area of Sunnyside FACULTY OF ENGINEERING, THE BUILT ENVIRONMENT AND INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY Department of Construction Prof Chrisna du Plessis (Staff) 31. Resiliency Strategies for Aspirational African Cities Economics Department of Architecture Graham Young (Staff) 32. Selection of research activities focused on the themes of: environmental potential, Landscape Programme human settlements and housing, and heritage and cultural landscapes FACULTY OF NATURAL AND AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES Department of Geography, Nerhene Davis (Staff) 33. Exploring challenges and opportunities of urban agriculture in the context of South Geoinformatics and African environmental planning and management strategies Meteorology FACULTY OF THEOLOGY Centre for Contextual Stephan de Beer (Staff, Director) 34. Faith in the city: exploring the (dis)engagements of theology and church in relation to Ministry healing urban fractures in the City of Tshwane .