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Research Projects
Disciplinary Profile
Sociology of
development/anthropology of development; development studies.
Main Topics
The role of civil
society in South Africa, particularly in the field of HIV/AIDS; governance
issues of the pandemic, especially in the Eastern Cape; the role of AIDS
councils on the local, district and provincial level; the relationship
between the urban and the rural.
Keywords
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The changing
role of NGOs in South Africa;
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Governance and
HIV/AIDS in Sub-Saharan Africa;
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Poverty,
inequality and access to public goods;
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State-civil
society-market relations;
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Relationship between the urban and the rural;
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Land reform;
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Poverty in
Dutch inner cities.
2001-2002
Quality of Life research in 't Roermondse
Veld:
As a research fellow at the Faculty of Arts and Culture in the University of
Maastricht, I am involved in the research in this disadvantaged
neighbourhood in Roermond (in the south of the Netherlands). The project
consists of three elements:
a. the development of an 'embedded monitor' which can be used by the
municipality to monitor the development of the quality of life in 't
Roemondse Veld;
b. investigating the organizational bottlenecks that hamper the
interventions in the neighbourhood;
c. looking at the problems in 't Roemondse Veld and also registering the
positive aspects in the neighbourhood.
1996 -
2001
Research
into the changing role of land sector NGOs in a transforming South Africa:
the fieldwork for this five-year PhD research project took place in the
Eastern Cape Province in South Africa. The research was focused on NGOs that
played a role in land reform. The project resulted in a book:
The Implications of Freedom: the
changing role of land sector NGOs in a transforming South Africa.
1984 - 1996
Beyond Black and White: the transcultural experience of expatriates in
the tropics;
Lettuce
Production in the Tropics;
The Tutume Brigades: part of the Brigade
movement in Botswana. |
