Books/Chapters/Monographs
Arendse, J.
Arendse, J. and Williams, R.J. (2018) Chapter 4: Registration, returns, assessments and records. Chapter 5: Dispute resolution. Chapter 6: Advance rulings. Chapter 7:
Administrative penalties, additional tax and interest. Chapter 8: Audit, investigation, search, seizure and access to information. Chapter 9: Payment of taxes, refunds and SARS collection powers. Chapter 10: Offences, unprofessional conduct and registration of practitioners. Chapter 11: Miscellaneous provisions. In: Campbell- Smith, W. (ed.). Silke on Tax Administration. 10th Ed. South Africa: Lexis Nexis (Pty) Ltd.
p.4-12. ISBN: 9780409115155.
Department of Anthropology
The Anthropology Department continued to engage in exciting research activities across their core nodes of research including marine and ecological issues, urbanisation and nature, anthropology of performance, and biological and cultural anthropology.
The core geographical areas include coastal communities living along the South African coast, Tanzania, and the Pacific Islands as well as small to medium sized towns in the Eastern Cape. Through newly funded research the Department's geographical range has been extended to include the Canary Island, El Hierro. The range of topics and geographic regions covered reflects the richness of expertise held in the department.
Professor Shankar Aswani, through his collaborative networks with the Leibniz Centre for Tropical Marine Ecology at Bremen University, Germany, and SOLCISTE, has continued to carry out research in East and South coasts of Africa and Oceania.
Research carried out amongst coastal communities in South Africa aims to improve compliance amongst recreational fishers. This forms part of government's long-term plans for improving the livelihoods and sustainability of coastal communities. This research has been funded by the National Research Foundation (NRF).
Professor Aswani’s Sandisa Imbewu grant (Rhodes University- South Africa) has been extended to 2020 and is being used to carry out a comparative analysis of coastal communities' responses to climate and environmental changes in Africa and Oceania.
Professor Aswani has also extended his research interests to include documenting communities’ social responses to catastrophe and environmental shock of volcanic eruptions, and how these are mediated by various factual and institutional components. This project focusses on documenting how various local and governmental institutions are capable of meeting the needs created by an environmental shock. The research includes a comparative study on the seismic-volcanic crises that occurred on the Canary Island of El Hierro in 2011 and in Kilauea volcano in the Hawaiian Islands in 2018.
Associate Professor Michelle Cocks Head of Department
Credit: Snow Harris
Associate Professor Michelle Cocks and Professor Charlie Shackleton continued to lead their
multidisciplinary research project entitled A Place to Belong that aims to unpack how urban nature(s) can assist and facilitate processes of belonging and well- being. Funding received from the NRF included supporting Postgraduate research. Amanda Manyani and Dennis Radebe both received funding and completed their research for their MA dissertations.
Duncan Haynes was awarded NRF funding to carry out his research for his MA dissertation.
Dr Patti Henderson continued her project in applying social theories of futurity and potentiality to a number of South African artists. She began working on Zanele Muholi’s photographic images in opening a public space of visibility for African queer identities.
Dr Dominique Santos, a new member of staff, published as editor and contributor in the Suomen Anthropologi Special Issue. ‘The Fieldwork Playlist’
drew together a global cohort to explore the place of music in the research process, across the social sciences. Music is evocative of meaning and memories tied to people, places and particular events,
powerfully bringing them into the present, yet its role in the making of research pathways is rarely foregrounded. Evolving from the mix-tape, the playlist is a form of communication through the assemblage of songs. The format was straightforward - one song from each contributor, and the story behind its significance for their research.
Dr Janet Hayward graduated with her Doctorate entitled “We are white”: Oral tradition, documented history and molecular biology of Xhosa clans descended from non-African forebears and their expression of this ancestry through the idiom of ancestor religion. She is publishing a chapter in an upcoming edited volume to be published by Cambridge University Press viz. The Transformative Power of Language and is working on additional journal articles from her PhD research.
Postgraduates / Graduations
Dr Janet Hayward (supervised by Professor Robin Palmer) obtained her PhD degree, alongside five (5) Honours students in anthropology and one (1) joint anthropology/German studies student. Two (2) Honours students graduated with distinctions.
Significant Research Aligned Events
Professor Aswani’s research in East and South coasts of Africa and Oceania has contributed to a greater theoretical understanding of dynamics and causal flows in coupled human and natural coastal systems at various spatial, temporal, and
organizational scales, as these respond to environmental hazards related to climate change.
A Multiscale Integrated Earth Systems Model has been developed to predict the responses of coastal coupled natural-human systems to endogenous and exogenous transformations including impacts, trade- off of ecosystem services, and estimates of system uncertainty under different climate change scenarios.
The model will be used to assist in predicting the social and ecological drivers that lead some communities to be more resilient than others when faced with environmental change such as harmful algal blooms and sea level rise.
Professor Aswani was invited to give presentations at a number of international institutions on his marine related research. These included delivering a paper
Professor Aswani discussing the names of fish with Baraulu Village fisherman in the Solomon Islands.
Credit: Department of Anthropology
entitled “Oceans and People: Approaches in Environmental Social Sciences” at the University of Queensland. He was also invited to present a paper at the Human and Mollusc Interactions Conference at the French Museum of Natural History in Paris, France. The paper was entitled “Human Harvesting Impacts on Species Managed Areas”.
Associate Professor Michelle Cocks was one of fifteen (15) participants invited to participate in a workshop on biocultural diversity focusing on urban regions with an aim to develop a deeper
understanding of biocultural diversity and its applications particularly relating to urban planning.
The workshop was hosted in Tokyo and Kanazawa, Japan and was organized as part of the one hundred and fifty (150) year anniversary of Sweden-Japan Diplomatic relationships.
Based on the novel research being carried out under the leadership of Associate Professor Michelle Cocks and Professor Charlie Shackleton three (3) funded Postgraduate students presented their work at international congresses and conferences. These included being part of a panel entitled Biocultural Diversity in Cities at the 16th Congress of the
International Society of Ethnobiology held in Belém, Brazil, and the World Forum on Urban Forests, Teatro Sociale di Mantova, Mantova in Italy.
Dr Patti Henderson was invited to the University of KwaZulu-Natal to speak on the work of Gregory Maqoma and Mary Sibande, the two (2) artists about whom she had already published.
Associate Professor Cocks (centre) was invited to be part of a three day workshop on Biocultural Diversity, with a focus on urban regions, in Japan – here visiting Higashibara Satoyama community centre with delegates.
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Professor Aswani discussing climate change with fishermen in Zanzibar.
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Books/Chapters/Monographs
Laville, R.
Laville, R. (2018) From Ramgoolam to Ramgoolam: An Analysis of the Mauritian Foreign Policy-making Process. In: Adar, K.G. and Ajulu, R. (eds.). Globalization and Emerging Trends in African States’ Foreign Policy-Making Process: A Comparative Perspective of Southern Africa. Oxon: Routledge. p.91-116. ISBN: 9781138726130.
Pattenden, O.
Pattenden, O. (2018) Taking Care of the Future: Moral Education and British Humanitarianism in South Africa. UK: Palgrave Macmillan. ISBN: 9783319698250.
International Visits
Cocks, M.L.
Cocks, M.L. Stockholm University (SRC), University of Tokyo (IR3S), Kanazawa, Japan. Three-day workshop on Biocultural diversity- with a focus on urban regions.
Organized as part of the 150-year anniversary of Sweden-Japan Diplomatic relationships. Funders: STINT. 4 - 6 April 2018.
Peer Reviewed Non-Subsidy-Earning Journal Research Publications
Bodenstab, E.
Govender, K., Sharma, S., Jessee, W., Nagaraju, K., Pearse, N.J., Chhetri, P., Bodenstab, E., Yu, P. and Srinivas, S. (2018) Leadership and Task Shifting to Address the Challenges of Antimicrobial Resistance in South Africa. Asian Journal of Pharmaceutical Research and Health Care. 10 (1). p.10-20.
Peer Reviewed Subsidy-Earning Journal Research Publications
Aswani, S.
Bova, C.S., Aswani, S., Farthing, M.W. and Potts, W.M. (2018) Limitations of the random response technique and a call to implement the ballot box method for estimating recreational angler compliance using surveys. Fisheries Research. 208 (2018). p.34-41.
Aswani, S., Lemahieu, A. and Sauer, W.H.H. (2018) Global trends of local ecological knowledge and future implications. PLoS One. 13 (4). p.1-19.
Aswani, S., Howard, J.A.E., Gasalla, M.A., Jennings, S., Malherbe, W., Martins, I.M., Salim, S.S., Van Putten, I.E., Swathilekshmi, P.S., Narayanakumar, R. and Watmough, G.R. (2018) An integrated framework for assessing coastal community vulnerability across cultures, oceans and scales. Climate and Development. 2018. p.1-18.
Ensor, J.E., Abernethy, K.E., Hoddy, E.T., Aswani, S., Albert, S., Vaccaro, I., Benedict, J.J. and Beare, D.J. (2018) Variation in perception of environmental change in nine Solomon Islands communities: implications for securing fairness in community- based adaptation. Regional Environmental Change. 18(4), pp.1131-1143.
Henderson, P.C.
Henderson, P.C. (2018) Cloth as a membrane of the imagination in the artwork of Mary Sibande. Anthropology Southern Africa. 41 (3). p.175-184.
Lemahieu, A. and Aswani, S.
Lemahieu, A., Scott, L., Malherbe W.S., Mahatante, P.T.,Randrianarimanana, J.V., and Aswani, S. (2018) Local perceptions of environmental changes in fishing communities of Southwest Madagascar. Ocean & Coastal Management 163: 209-221.
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of Anthropology
Lemahieu, A.
Lagabrielle, E., Allibert, A., Kiszka, J.J., Loiseau, N., Kilfoil, J.P.
and Lemahieu, A. (2018) Environmental and anthropogenic factors affecting the increasing occurrence of shark-human interactions around a fast-developing Indian Ocean island.
Scientific Reports. 8 (3676). p.1-13.
Palmer, R.
Palmer, R. (2018) Exporting identity: Italians in London during the long 19th century. International Journal of Business and Globalisation. 21 (3). p.327-343.
Santos, D.
Santos, D. (2018) Lou Rawls - ‘You’ll Never Find A Love Like Mine’. Suomen Antropologi. 43 (2). p.75-79.
Research Papers Presented at Academic/Scientific Conferences (Non-peer-reviewed Proceedings)
Aswani, S.
Aswani, S. Invited panel presentation at the Academy of Science of South Africa (ASSAf) Poverty, Inequality and Global Climate Change: Connecting the Discussions workshop. Protea Hotel OR Tambo, Johannesburg, South Africa, 18 - 19 September 2018.
Aswani, S. Invited paper presented at the University of Queensland entitled “Oceans and People: Approaches in Environmental Social Sciences”. Brisbane, Australia, March 29 2018.
Aswani, S. Invited paper presented at the Human and Mollusc Interactions Conference at the French Museum of Natural History entitled “Human Harvesting Impacts on Species Managed Areas”.
Paris, France. 31 January - 2 February 2018.
Cocks, M.
Manyani, A., Shackleton, C.M. and Cocks, M. How urban dwellers identify with features within urban green spaces in the Eastern Cape. Green and Social Entrepreneurship for Biodiversity Conservation and Local Development. KwaZulu-Natal. South Africa.
November 2018.
Manyani, A., Shackleton, C.M. and Cocks, M. How urban dwellers identify with natural elements within urban green spaces in the Eastern Cape. World Forum on Urban Forests. Mantova.
Italy. November 2018.
Shackleton, C.M. and Cocks, M. Gardens and well-being:
Biocultural approaches to understanding urban biodiversity in South Africa. URBIO International Network for Urban Biodiversity
& Design Conference. Cape Town. South Africa. September 2018.
Vetter, S. and Cocks, M. Culture, nature and wellbeing - insights from qualitative and quantitative research in the Eastern Cape.
Thicket Forum. Addo Elephant National Park, Addo. South Africa. June 2018.
Manyani, A., Shackleton, C.M. and Cocks, M. A closer look at the features within urban green spaces in low-income areas of South Africa. Research Associate Symposium. Nelson Mandela University, Port Elizabeth. South Africa. August 2018.
Cocks, M. and Shackleton, C.M. Decolonization of nature in towns and cities of South Africa: Incorporation of biocultural values. XVI Congress of the International Society of Ethnobiology.
HANGAR Convention Center, Belem. Brazil. August 2018.
Haynes, D.R. and Cocks, M.
Haynes, D.R., Cocks, M.L. and Shackleton, C.M. Using biocultural diversity for urban place-making among amaXhosa in South Africa. XVI Congress of the International Society of Ethnobiology. HANGAR Convention Center, Belem. Brazil. August 2018.
Haynes, D.R., Cocks, M. and Shackleton, C.M. Indigenous wellbeing in urban gardens: intersections of traditional medicines, cosmologies and biodiversity in South Africa. XVI Congress of the International Society of Ethnobiology. HANGAR Convention Center, Belem. Brazil. August 2018.
Walsh, L.S. and Cocks, M.
Walsh, L.S., Cocks, M. and Shackleton, C.M. Urban Wellness:
Local Urban South Africans Cultural Connections to Nature and Their Well-Being Implications. Rhodes University Postgraduate Conference (RUPGC). Rhodes University, Grahamstown. South Africa.
July 2018.
Walsh, L.S., Cocks, M. and Shackleton, C.M. Urban Wellness:
Local Urban South Africans Cultural Connections to Nature and Their Well-Being Implications. XVI Congress of the International Society of Ethnobiology. HANGAR Convention Center, Belem. Brazil.
August 2018.
Walsh, L.S., Cocks, M. and Shackleton, C.M. Post-colonial green spaces: can they contribute to notions of improved well- being and belonging in South Africa? African Centre for Cities Conference. University of Cape Town, Cape Town. South Africa. February 2018.
Professor Aswani working with academic staff of the University of Dar es Salaam, Tanzania.
Credit: Department of Anthropology
Department of Biochemistry & Microbiology
The Department of Biochemistry and Microbiology has had a challenging 2018.
The renovations to the Biological Sciences Building started in earnest mid-year. The efforts of all staff and Postgraduate students who managed to continue with their research, despite the noise and dust, are highly commendable. Our research groups, notwithstanding the inconveniences of working in a building site, continued with their research and have produced significant outputs in student graduations and research publications.