New accents on the social: thinking on South Africa's history at UWC
SOURCE: South African Historical Journal
OUTPUT TYPE: Journal Article
PUBLICATION YEAR: 2018
TITLE AUTHOR(S): C.Soudien
KEYWORDS: HISTORY, SOCIAL SCIENCE RESEARCH
Print: HSRC Library: shelf number 10451
HANDLE: 20.500.11910/12424
URI: http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11910/12424
OUTPUT TYPE: Journal Article
PUBLICATION YEAR: 2018
TITLE AUTHOR(S): C.Soudien
KEYWORDS: HISTORY, SOCIAL SCIENCE RESEARCH
Print: HSRC Library: shelf number 10451
HANDLE: 20.500.11910/12424
URI: http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11910/12424
If you would like to obtain a copy of this Research Output, please contact Hanlie Baudin at researchoutputs@hsrc.ac.za.
Abstract
Professor Crain Soudien's new review essay 'New Accents on the Social: Thinking on South Africa's history at UWC' tackles the question of the social through an assessment of three publications produced by CHR faculty and researchers. Out of History: Re-Imagining South African Pasts (Leslie Witz, Jung Ran Forte, and Paolo Israel), Unsettled History: Making South African Public Pasts (Leslie Witz, Gary Minkley, and Ciraj Rassool, and Remains of the Social (Gary Minkley, Maurits Van Bever Donker, Premesh Lalu, and Ross Truscott) are three edited collections that are the result of 'more than a decade of scholarly enquiry into social analysis' at the CHR at UWC as well as a collaboration with the SARChI Chair in Social Change at the University of Fort Hare. Examined in relation to how it is the notion of the social has become increasingly significant in the social sciences, Soudien brings these three texts together to suggest that it is in the intellectual site of the CHR that the question has been taken up most forcefully and most deliberately. Soudien's essay is at once a review of the problem of the problematisation of the social as it is a review of the intellectual labour of the CHR and 'its aims to build a credible site for critical research'.-
Related Research Outputs:
- Understanding the structure of data when planning for analysis: application of hierarchical linear model
- Strategy for gaining access to conduct research in the informal settlement
- Research methodology (approaches) and the implementation of research findings
- African sociology: towards a critical perspective: the collected essays of Bernard Makhosezwe Magubane
- Social science research and the challenge of AIDS: a reflexive participatory research approach
- Don't bite the hand that feeds you: South African education NGOs in a period of change
- The post-Rivonia ANC/SACP underground
- The Wankie and Sipolilo campaigns
- Fragments of a coloured history: migration, governmentality and race in Cape Town
- Book review: Illiffe, J. (2002) East African doctors: a history of the modern profession. Kampala: Fountain Publishers. 336 p. ISBN 9970023039
- Book review: Stiff, P. (2002) See you in November: the story of an SAS assassin. Johannesburg: Galago Publications. 312 p. ISBN 1919854053 and Stiff, P. (2001) Warfare by other means: South African in the 1980s and 1990s. Johannesburg: Galago Publications. 600 p. ISBN 1919854010
- Population training and research in South Africa
- Historical background to South African migration
- The history and methodology of the HSRC surveys
- "Inputs of social scientists are critical"
- The history curriculum in the (revised) national curriculum statement: an introduction
- Potent spaces, story places: teaching history through museums
- Role of social sciences vital to development
- Distinct pathways: tracing the origins and history of private higher education in South Africa
- Emerging future issues in HIV/AIDS social research