Journals and other publications

This guide provides a list of journals, newspapers and periodicals housed at the UWC-Robben Island Mayibuye Archives. The guide provides the names of various publications, as well as start and end dates and their location

Diasporas and democratization in the post-communist world

If diaspora communities are socialized with democratic values in Western societies, they could be expected to be sympathetic to the democratization of their home countries. However, there is a high degree of variation in their behavior. Contrary to the predominant understanding in the literature that diasporas act in exclusively nationalist ways, this article argues that they do engage with the democratization of their home countries. Various challenges to the sovereignty of their homelands explain whether diasporas involve with procedural or liberal aspects of democratization. Drawing evidence from the activities of the Ukrainian, Serbian, Albanian and Armenian diasporas after the end of communism, I argue that unless diasporas are linked to home countries that enjoy both international legal and domestic sovereignty, they will involve only with procedural aspects of democratization. Diasporas filter international pressure to democratize post-communist societies by utilizing democratic procedures to advance unresolved nationalist goals

Speaking with a forked tongue about multilingualism in the language policy of a South African university

As part of a broader student campaign for ‘free decolonized education’, protests over language policies at select South African universities between 2015 and 2016 belied widespread positive appraisals of these policies, and revealed what is possibly an internal contradiction of the campaign. The discourse prior to the protests (e.g. “excellent language policies but problematic implementation”), during the protests (e.g. silence over the role of indigenous African languages in the “Afrikaans must fall” versus “Afrikaans must stay” contestations), and after the protests (e.g. English becoming a primary medium in some institutional policy reviews) warrant attention to critical literacy in language policy scholarship. Based on a theoretical account of speaking with a forked tongue, this article analyzes the language policy text of one South African university. The analysis suggests, simultaneously, why similar policies have tended to be positively appraised, why students’ calls for policy revisions were justified, but why the changes clamoured for arguably amount to complicity in self-harm

Regina Isaacs Catalogue

This guide provides a list of documents contained in the Regina Isaacs collection at the Mayibuye centre

MCA 6: Mayibuye Centre: Oral history of exiles project

Oral history interviews with South African political exiles conducted for the Mayibuye Centre between 1992 and 1995 by Wolfie Kodesh, Farid Stemmet, Sazi Veldtman, Rachidi Molapo and Les Switzer. A number of the interviews have been transcribed. Summaries of the interviews conducted by Wolfie Kodesh are also available

Scholarship of teaching and learning publications by UWC Authors, 2010-2019

The file presents results of an exercise to track UWC SoTL publications between 2010 and 2019. The document lists these in order of faculty and professional unit