Academic research
LitNet Akademies is LitNet's accredited academic journal. An extended English abstract is published with every article.
Identity politics: Success, paradox and unintended consequences
2021-06-29"Identity thus offers a space in which alternatives for the self and for the world can be imagined, designed and tested. However, in order to achieve this, a third form of expansion is needed, namely of the role of identity itself."
American-Chinese competition: A systemic and theoretical analysis
2021-06-28"The strategic competition creates new models based on regional trade groupings which can lead to deglobalisation and a new international economic and political order: on the one side the current American liberal international order and on the other side the establishment of a China-centred international system."
Old wine in new bottles: The recent revival of Germanic culture on Instagram
2021-06-23"The aim of the present study is to determine the extent to which an interest in the Germanic world manifests itself on the social media platform Instagram, whether an increase in interest can be found, and what concepts are associated with the Germanic world."
The use of gamification as a tool for vocabulary enhancement in a task-based programme for language acquisition classes
2021-06-14"Through research it was established that gamification can most likely be used to succeed in learning the vocabulary of a foreign and/or second language. Finally, we concluded that gamification is a useful tool and teaching method, that it can be beneficial to university students by helping them to learn vocabulary, and that it assists and supports the language acquisition process."
Citizenship under construction: Aida and Rigoletto at the South African Republic Festival, 1971
2021-06-04"No costs were spared on the building of the Nico Malan Theatre where opulence abounded, while the government’s contribution to the cost of the Joseph Stone Auditorium was literally 1% of what they paid for the Nico Malan Theatre."
Bloemfontein as military headquarters in the second half of the 19th century, with special reference to the Reitz era, 1889–1895
2021-05-28"The article clearly shows that although the OFS’s State Artillery was gradually expanded in the course of the second half of the 19th century and all the state’s presidents, including F.W. Reitz, took a keen interest in the defence of the OFS, it did not save the Boer republic from British conquest in 1900."
What is (not) a dictionary, and/or what is a dictionary not? The Woordelys of the Afrikaanse woordelys en spelreëls as a case study
2021-05-24"Therefore, the Woordelys is a dictionary, and, more specifically, a monolingual, synchronic, standard, orthographic dictionary. The AWS is characterised as a monolingual, synchronic, standard, orthographic reference source."
Hip hop, injustice and agency: Dookoom’s Isaac Mutant as Boland badman figure
2021-05-21"The song’s lyrics and music video are therefore explored by considering the nature and ethos of hip hop as oral practice rooted in a long history of black oppression, and as one that plays a role in the creation of agency within these oppressive circumstances."
The use of total quality management in the adaptation of quality of delivery: a case study in private higher education
2021-05-18"The central theme that emerged from this study confirmed that the acceptance of internal quality mechanisms and total quality management principles is essential for a private higher education institution. The three most important themes that emerged were compliance with the regulatory framework, institutional supply and quality management."
The exclusion of vicarious liability of employers in exemption clauses
2021-05-17"Ultimately courts should in light of the importance of policy considerations underlying vicarious liability, develop the rules of the common law of contract in terms of section 39(2) of the Constitution."
Combatting learner challenges in a rural school: aspirational capital as navigation tool
2021-05-11"If learners know themselves and their communities, they can identify and use the necessary resources. It can be argued that these skills, abilities and knowledge can assist learners to hope and dream for a better future amid various challenges."
The spatial dynamics of poverty in South Africa: Assessing poverty using satellite technology and poverty maps
2021-04-26"The results of the granular poverty maps developed in this research study suggest that poverty in South Africa is spatially clustered and not randomly distributed. Locations with high and low poverty are generally not in close proximity."
Foucault’s unique Orientalism
2021-04-23"Perhaps the humbling lesson to be learned from both Foucault’s unique Orientalism and his problematic expedition to Iran in 1978 could be that 'intellectuals' have to be silent sometimes, in order to learn to speak."
The economics of the invaluable
2021-04-22"If we are to understand the manner in which we can be transformed by an object and in turn what enables us to transform and work on objects, we can move closer to an enveloped notion of economics."
Centralisation and forbidden sex
2021-04-22"The text of the Avesta also encourages incest, which is the main prohibition in Leviticus 18 and 20. If the authors of H thus knew about these Persian ideas, they were following the Persians by prohibiting anal sex and at the same time showing resistance to Persian ideas by outlawing incest."
Futuristic language, seed stories and ecocriticism in Alettie van den Heever’s Stof
2021-04-20"In the end, Stof also merely tells a story, but the novel suggests that human beings can construct new narratives which may have potentially far-reaching implications for our relationship with the non-human environment."
Teachers’ perceptions of Facebook and Gesels.net as e-learning environments: implications for emergency remote education
2021-04-19"Gesels.net was therefore designed and developed to serve as an eLE for South African teachers. Although individual teachers join both Facebook and Gesels.net, these tools have not yet been adopted by the staff of schools to establish schoolwide learning communities."
The concept of accommodatio with Christoph Wittich (1625−1687) and his Cartesian-rationalist approach to the Biblical text
2021-04-13"According to his understanding of accommodatio, God not only revealed God-self in accordance with the cognitive limitations of fallible humans, but also in accordance with the contextually bound ignorance, misconceptions and prejudices of the Biblical text’s original audience ..."
The role of non-academic mentorship in involving students from marginalised groups at a university – a case study
2021-04-07"The study shows that while good management and teaching can play a role, non-academic mentorship not only helps to bridge access, but also to build survival capital through recognition and productive engagement."
An investigation into parental support to primary school learners in writing skills and activities in low-income households
2021-03-19"If literacy is not mastered adequately, it can create endless learning problems for any child. This is especially evident in the case of learners from impoverished households."
