• Conservation science education online (CSEO) – a heritage science resource 

  Murray, Alison; Biggs, Kyna; Shugar, Aaron; Ploeger, Rebecca; Uffelman, Erich; Stols-Witlox, Maartje; Gonzales, Patricia; Smith, Gregory D.; Loubser, Maggi; Lopez, Laura Fuster; Di Pietro, Giovanna; Sah, Anupam; Nevin, Austin; Sardarli, Arzu; Wei, Shuya; Casanova-Gonzalez, Edgar (De Gruyter, 2023-09-23)

  Conservation Science Education Online (CSEO) is a new online resource that shares strategies for teaching science in art conservation and related cultural heritage fields. An overview will be given of how undergraduate ...
• Unmasking the dictator : how digital technologies expose authoritarianism in Belarus and Zimbabwe 

  Mututwa, Wishes Tendayi; Akpojivi, Ufuoma (Intellect, 2023-07)

  Authoritarian governments seem to use the same methods of coercion the world over. Recent developments in Belarus and Zimbabwe resonate with this observation. President Alexander Lukashenko prevailed in a deeply flawed and ...
• Where to look? Sustaining presence while directing attention in virtual reality stories 

  Walter, Michael (AIM, 2023)

  Humans have been fascinated with the notion of submerging themselves in other spaces since antiquity, or even before. As the contemporary media landscape seeks to employ newer immersive practices, particularly in today’s ...
• What blind people can teach sighted viewers about art 

  Lauwrens, Jennifer (Routledge, 2024)

  While sight and hearing have been privileged in the philosophical formulation of aesthetics, the significance of touch to the experience of art has not enjoyed much attention at all. In order to displace sight and reinstate ...
• Illustrating for the common good : South African illustrator perceptions of book creation initiatives and open licensing 

  Haese, Adrie (Common Ground Research Networks, 2024-06)

  The demand for children’s reading materials that are representative of the diverse population of South Africa and that address language and affordability issues has given rise to several book creation initiatives by local ...
• Chapter 6 : The typographic sensorium : a cross-modal reading of letterforms 

  Rath, Kyle A. (Pretoria University Law Press, 2022)

  Anyone living in a post-industrial society consumes and interacts with typography daily, albeit often unconsciously. For many of us, typography primarily is a linguistic or lexical tool; a vehicle by which we can ...
• The rhetoric of Covid-19 : numbers and stats and maps – oh my 

  Rath, Kyle (Routledge, 2022)

  From February 2020, media coverage surrounding the spread of Covid-19 (acronym for the coronavirus disease of 2019) accelerated to the point where it has become the most exhaustively covered pandemic in recent times. ...
• African vernacular symbols of black intersex children in Sinethemba Ngubane's installations (2007-2016) 

  James, Sule Ameh (MIT Press, 2023-06-01)

  Sinethemba Ngubane is an artist who works predominantly in the medium of ceramics but includes sculptures in large installations. She was born in 1991 in Durban, South Africa, and completed a national diploma in Fine Art ...
• People with intellectual disability at the Grahamstown Lunatic Asylum : humanizing photographs, stories and narratives from the casebooks, 1890–1920 

  Du Plessis, Rory (Routledge, 2023)

  In the medical literature of South Africa in the early twentieth century, Dr Thomas Duncan Greenlees published a dehumanized portrayal of people with intellectual disability (PWID) who were institutionalized at the Grahamstown ...
• Spiderly sympoiesis : tensegral tentacularity and speculative clews 

  Price, Erin Kindlund; Van Eeden-Wharton, Adrienne (Sage, 2023-01)

  With Spider(s) as our guide, we tentatively prod and turn felt concepts of situatedness and entanglement; stickiness and attachment; plasticity and pliability; precarity, uncertainty, and leaps of vulnerability. Inspired ...
• Multisensory narratives of home and belonging : investigating virtual representations of physical places in Towards Telepathy (2017) and Home Museum (2020) 

  Lauwrens, Jennifer (Routledge, 2022)

  In 2017, while living in two geographically distant locations, South African artist Katherine Bull and French artist Emmanuel de Montbron collaborated on a project in which they used mobile phones and an online blog to ...
• Potential pesticide contamination in repatriated artifacts in African museums : the need for the adoption of safety protocols for access and use of hazardous artifacts 

  Chiwara, Davison; O'Connell, Siona; Loubser, Maggi (Routledge, 2023)

  This article discusses the issue of potential pesticide contaminants in artifacts that are being repatriated by museums from the global north to Africa. It highlights that the issue of scientific testing of artifacts for ...
• Art? science? .... Alchemy : the materiality of spiritual expression in artistic creation revealed through the analytical techniques of a heritage conservator 

  Loubser, Maggi; Le Roux, Salome (Institute for Afro-Hellenic Studies, 2021)

  To the uninitiated, it is quite probable that the results that art conservators derive from analytical techniques, may resemble alchemy, but they do not create gold from lead. Instead, they represent the composition of an ...
• Winged women on book covers for contemporary African fiction : Shubnum Khan’s creation for Mohale Mashigo’s intruders (2018) 

  Kriel, Lize (Institute for Afro-Hellenic Studies, 2021)

  In her collection of short stories, Intruders, Mohale Mashigo (2018) draws on popular culture as well as local cultural memories as invested in South African folktales, to conjure up a fantastical world in which spirituality ...
• Counter narrative of President Buhari's narrative on Nigerian youths with visual images and texts on Facebook 

  James, Sule Ameh; Sule, Olubunmi Omobola (Routledge, 2023)

  This paper interrogates the visual images and texts Nigerians posted on social media – Facebook as a counter-narrative to President Buhari’s narrative that ‘we have a very young population, a lot of them have not been to ...
• Nelson Makamo’s representations of African vernacular rooted images of black children 

  James, Sule Ameh (Routledge, 2024)

  My paper offers an interpretative approach using visual analysis. In doing so, the paper contributes a discourse on artworks by the South African artist, Nelson Makamo, and focuses on the images drawn from black children. ...
• The “gospel of fatness” and acts of sitophobia : the foodscape and power relations at the Grahamstown Lunatic Asylum, 1890 to circa 1910 

  Du Plessis, Rory (Unisa Press, 2021-01)

  The article explores the foodscape of the Grahamstown Lunatic Asylum, South Africa, from 1890 to circa 1910. The staff of the asylum were disciples of the “gospel of fatness” in which a patient’s weight gain was regarded ...
• Revitalizing the rhetoric of ‘sustainability’ : a Kenneth Burkean diagnosis of symbolic (dis)orders 

  Bowie, Anneli; Reyburn, Duncan (Routledge, 2021)

  This paper offers a new perspective on the rhetoric of ‘sustainability’ especially within dialogue around ‘design for sustainability’ (DfS) by applying and advancing the work of twentieth-century rhetorical theorist and ...
• Magical mothers : the representation of witches and motherhood in contemporary fantasy cinema 

  Engelbrecht, Janine (Routledge, 2021)

  Over the past decade, powerful mothers in cinema have reappeared in the fantasy genre in the form of “witches”. Some witches’ stories, such as that of Maleficent (the wicked witch from the classic fairy tale Sleeping ...
• These are dresses that are stitched with dreams : struggle, freedom and the women of the clothing and textile industry of the Western Cape 

  O'Connell, Siona (University of Kwazulu-Natal, 2019)

  The ordinary archive of the racially oppressed in South Africa offers a critical lens through which to interrogate notions of resistance, subjectivities and freedom. This paper considers these questions by examining the ...

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