Research Publications

Research publication of graduate students (Honors, MA, or PhD) theses. Students are likely to gain a wider reading audience, the chance to contribute to a research community, and offer support to other theses writers by their work on this site. Original place of publication and the university issuing the award of the degree is acknowledged.

Research Publications

Re-thinking “Soul Food”: An online Panel Discussion

Many foods, foodways and cuisines are romanticized in imaginings of community, ethnicity, national identity, family life or “the soul”. Although…

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A Closer look at Black South African Women’s lifestyle and food consumption choices and the effects of globalisation in contemporary South Africa

This thesis considers how factors of urbanisation and globalisation affect people’s lifestyle and food consumption choices and how this may…

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Re-reading “Africa” Through Food

African social and cultural processes and struggles have been extensively explored in music, performance, the visual arts and oral and…

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Food through the lens of Covid-19

By Dr. Sheetal Bhoola Dr. Sheetal Bhoola reflects on the ways that the pandemic has revealed inequity in South Africa,…

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