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'Dark technology', aggressiveness and the question of cyber-ethics 743 15 0 10 768
Gendered human (in)security in South Africa: What can ubuntu feminism offer? 548 48 0 12 608
Emergence of an authoritarian democracy: the ghost of Nat Nakasa 436 10 0 9 455
#Blesser: A critical evaluation of conceptual antecedents and the allure of a transactional relationship 184 62 0 9 255
Alienation, reification and the banking model of education: Paulo Freire's critical theory of education 193 39 0 22 254
Epistemic (in)justice and decolonisation in higher education: experiences of a crosssite teaching project 170 52 0 10 232
Critical theory and praxis in post-apartheid South Africa: The case for a critical criminology 185 26 0 21 232
Metaphysical guilt: Jaspers, Honneth, and the problem of dehumanisation 178 15 0 23 216
Radical transformation and the limits of law 84 116 0 14 214
Being Black in South African higher education: An intersectional insight 146 46 0 22 214
The #FeesMustFall protest: when the camp(u)s becomes the matrix of a state of emergency 52 118 0 7 177
Surveillance capitalism and the derision of the digital denizen 128 16 0 22 166
A critical reflection on digital disruption in journalism and journalism education 120 17 0 22 159
Public housing on 'The Rocks': brutalism, heritage and the defence of inhabitance 118 31 0 8 157
A 'people to come': Sense8 as (critical) 'minor cinema' 100 9 0 32 141
Re-framing the gallery: South African exhibition spaces as case studies 105 4 0 8 117
Conspiracy theories and pandemic management in Africa: critical reflections on contexts, contradictions and challenges 72 29 0 8 109
Challenging the way we know the world: overcoming paralysis and utilising discomfort through critical reflexive thought 73 16 0 19 108
From Pacific to traffic islands: challenging Australia's colonial use of the ocean through creative protest 84 8 0 9 101
Surveillance capitalism as white world-making 68 27 0 2 97
An ordeal of the Real: shame and the superego 85 10 0 1 96
Emancipatory politics between identity and disidentification: Rancière and the Black Consciousness Movement 51 19 0 23 93
Reflecting on the ethics of PhD research in the Global South: reciprocity, reflexivity and situatedness 70 13 0 8 91
"These violent delights have violent ends": Good subjects of everyday South African violence 53 12 0 22 87
Politicising 'COVID-19': an analysis of selected ZANU-PF officials' 2020-2021 media statements on the pandemic in Zimbabwe 43 29 0 8 80
'We will utterly destroy them... and we will go in and possess the land': reflections on the role of civilian-driven violence in the making of settler genocides 57 14 0 8 79
Contested identities - critical conceptualisations of the human 68 11 0 0 79
Amos Tutuola as a quest hero for endogenous Africa: actively anglicising the Yoruba language and yorubanising the English language 51 27 0 0 78
The Libeskind Jewish Museum in Berlin, the unpresentable and experience 61 13 0 4 78
The gift as philosophical critique of the social grant system in South Africa 54 10 0 10 74
On the verge of a nervous breakthrough: Neoliberal subjectivities and precarious resistance in the contemporary South African university 43 5 0 25 73
Militarisation, the state of exception, and fascism in South African universities 55 11 0 6 72
Lourens du Plessis's lesson: love, politics and psychoanalysis in the age of the narcissist 55 9 0 8 72
Religion versus state and the struggle for control in society's developmental arena: A review 54 8 0 7 69
How do we teach the world? - A conversation about decolonization, processes of unlearning and 'aha moments' in institutions of higher education 59 7 0 0 66
Postures of protest: The reinterpretation of FAK folk songs as expressions of (a new) nationalism and nostalgia 44 8 0 6 58
Resilience in a Kenyan informal settlement during the COVID-19 pandemic 36 11 0 9 56
Economic inequality and trust from a Smithian perspective 41 10 0 5 56
When reason is not enough for social cohesion: rethinking the place of emotion and art in politics 41 4 0 4 49
The middle remains missing: class exclusion from the urban rental market in suburban Johannesburg 36 5 0 6 47
Precarity, ungrievability, and thinking beyond the law: a framework for understanding the position of LGB individuals in South Africa 30 10 0 5 45
Shame, subjectivity, and pandemic productivity 32 4 0 8 44
Events, lines and interruptions: the production of university space 27 7 0 7 41
The poverty of (critical) theory: A review 38 3 0 0 41
A 'Right' to the university 19 9 0 10 38
Knowledge work in the age of control: capitalising on human capital 24 9 0 5 38
Spaces, places and the power of ideas 32 5 0 0 37
The "warm welcome by South Africa of the stealthy introduction of impunified disregard for and violation of fundamental rights": A legal-political commentary on the SADC Tribunal jurisprudence in South Africa 27 2 0 8 37
Introduction to the Special Focus 30 6 0 0 36
Democracy in crisis 21 7 0 7 35
Taking ideology seriously in the time of plague: insights versus distractions 19 5 0 8 32
The creative practitioner in South African higher education: Practice and scholarship in conversation and flux 24 5 0 2 31
Author interview and book review: Why nothing seems to matter any more, by Bert Olivier 20 9 0 0 29
Something eventful this way comes: on pandemics, events, and capitalism 16 3 0 10 29
Pandemic politics - an introduction 21 5 0 0 26
Negotiating belonging: the case of Francophone Cameroonian migrants in Pretoria 17 4 0 5 26
The healing-growth future of humanity: regenerative politics and crealectic care 11 6 0 8 25
Being and becoming African as a permanent work in progress: inspiration from Chinua Achebe's proverbs 14 6 0 0 20
Reflections on The Good Ancestor 14 4 0 0 18
A good ancestor 12 5 0 0 17
Platform: in theory 13 3 0 0 16
Short- vs long-term vs the middle-ground in critical socioeconomic and environmental planning 11 3 0 0 14
Interaction with The Good Ancestor 11 3 0 0 14
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