Human and Social Development

Research outputs

Arnot, M. & Swartz, S. (2012) Editorial: youth citizenship and the politics of belonging: introducing contexts, voices, imaginaries. Comparative Education. 48(1):1-10.
Human Sciences Research Council (2012) 6th SAHARA Conference: official conference proceedings. Port Elizabeth: SAHARA.
McLaughlin, C., Swartz, S., Kiragu, S., Walli, S. & Mohammed, M. (2012) Old enough to know: consulting children about sex and AIDS education in Africa. Cape Town: HSRC Press.
Mkhize, N., Bennett, J., Reddy, V. & Moletsane, R. (2012) The country we want to live in: hate crimes and homophobia in the lives of black lesbian South Africans. (HSRC Policy Brief, March).
Some of the most renowned activists and scholar-activists working in this environment attended this historic event. These activists took stock of policies and identified approaches to eliminate crimes directed against lesbians. The group analysed the vocabulary used to speak about these issues in South Africa, examined different campaigns aimed at ending violence against lesbians and presented...
Phaswana-Mafuya, N., Peltzer, K., Schneider, M., Makiwane, M., Zuma, K., Ramlagan, S., Tabane, C., Davids, A., Mbelle, N., Matseke, G. & Phaweni, K. (2012) Study of global ageing and adult health (SAGE): South Africa 2007-2008: executive summary. (Commissioned by the World Health Organisation, March).
The phenomenon of population ageing has become more significant in South African society during recent decades, with the cohort aged 50 years or older increasing noticeably in both percentage and number. The social, economic and political consequences of population ageing have thus become a significant factor to be taken into account in all planning aspects of policies and programmes. This is p...
Sanger, N. (2012) What it means to have 'personhood': women's visual productions and identities in South Africa. HSRC Review. 10(1):8-9.
As part of a post-doctoral Fulbright scholarship in the United States, I focused my project on the cultural productions of South African women of colour, and what they had to say about identity through their work. I moved from the premise that all identities are formed by the social context in which we find ourselves. As different components of our identities, gender, 'race', sexuality, culture...
Swartz, S., Naidoo, P., Bray, R., Sanger, N., Garzouzie, G., Peltzer, K., Ramlagan, S., Mlambo, M., Louw, J.S., Mchunu, G., Zuma, K., Seutlwadi, L., Tutshana, B., Matseke, G., Chirinda, W., Njuho, P. & Satekge, M. (2012) Evaluating the value that young people attach to LoveLife and investigating factors impacting the life choices and risk tolerance of youth. (Commissioned by LoveLife, February).
There is no abstract available due to the confidential status of the report.
Swartz, S., Harding, J.H. & De Lannoy, A. (2012) Ikasi style and the quiet violence of dreams: a critique of youth belonging in post-apartheid South Africa. Comparative Education. 48(1):27-40.
Drawing on empirical data from two recent research studies in post-apartheid South Africa, this paper asks what it means to be poor, young and black, and belong in a society that has suffered debilitating and dehumanising racial subjugation, actively excluding people from citizenship, and how poverty serves to perpetuate this exclusion. It examines the notions of citizenship and belonging and a...
Vawda, M.Y. & Bhana, A. (2012) A bottle and a bag of weed: substance abuse trends in KwaZulu-Natal. HSRC Review. 10(1):4-5.
An alcohol and other drug (AOD) surveillance system shows a significant increase in the number of young black people seeking treatment for substance abuse in Kwazulu-Natal (KZN) from 2008 to 2010, raising serious health concerns. Initiated in 1996, the South African Community Epidemiology Network on Drug Use (SACENDU), collects alcohol and other drug use (AOD) surveillance data in the Western C...