Alan Muller
Biographic Data
| ID | 4117288 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Alan Muller |
| GIVEN NAMES | Alan |
| FAMILY NAME | Muller |
| SIGNATURE | MULLER A |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Groningen |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-2913-2109 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 10 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 10 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2015 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Writing Centre 2.0
This exploratory study investigates the integration of Generative Artificial Intelligence (GenAI) into a faculty-specific writing centre at a South African university. The study introduces a custom GPT, the HWC_CollaboWriter, which was designed to assist writing consultants by addressing lower-order concerns (LOCs) such as grammar and punctuation, freeing consultants to focus on higher-order concerns (HOCs) like argument structure and content dev…
Managerial Cognition and Corporate Social Responsibility Strategy
Given the growing importance of corporate social responsibility (CSR) to business, firms are increasingly taking a strategic approach to their CSR efforts. This study aims to explore how elements of managerial cognition interact to underpin firms' choices for specific CSR strategies. Following an abductive approach, we conduct qualitative research among six small and medium‐sized enterprises in China to develop a cognition‐based framework for CSR…
Left, Right then Left Again
The purpose of this article is to critically consider the roles that academic literacy facilitators fulfil in exposing students to Global Citizenship Education (GCE). In university disciplines, literacies are primary tools that students employ to interact with global events, knowledge, theories and problems. As such, multimodal literacies including written, audiovisual and cyber texts facilitate students’ access to the world through critical comm…
An Investigation of the Relationship Between Ethics-Oriented HRM Systems, Moral Attentiveness, and Deviant Workplace Behavior
Deviant workplace behaviors (DWB) cause enormous costs to organizations, sparking considerable interest among researchers and practitioners to identify factors that may prevent such behavior. Drawing on the theory of moral development, we examine the role of ethics-oriented human resource management (HRM) systems in mitigating DWB, as well as mechanisms that may mediate and moderate this relationship. Based on 232 employee-supervisor matched resp…
Poetry in Motion
This article examines how Imraan Coovadia’s The Institute for Taxi Poetry uses the taxi industry as a dynamic cultural space to explore intersections of mobility and identity in an alternate post-apartheid South Africa. Drawing on Mary Louise Pratt’s concept of contact zones and Mimi Sheller’s framework of mobility justice, this article argues that Coovadia reimagines the taxi as a metaphorical and literal space where diverse social and cultural …
Cultural Entanglement, Displacement and Contemporary Durban in Imraan Coovadia’s High Low In-between
This article focuses on Imraan Coovadia’s High Low In-between and investigates how the novel’s join protagonists, Nafisa and Shakeer, navigate their contemporary Durban. The mother and son, I point out, present two disparate subjectivities that engage with both the urban milieu of the city and a globalised world in very different ways. Both experience a sense of displacement in the city, but, as thew novel progresses, they manage to embrace Durba…
Futures Forestalled … for Now
While the term ‘Afrofuturism’ has entered the global popular lexicon and is appropriately used to describe films like Black Panther, the term’s descriptive potential is necessarily culturally bound. In this article, I argue that the term is bound to an African-American context and that it cannot slip shoddily be applied to futuristic texts by African creatives in Africa. To problematise the term’s application in an African context, I provide an h…
Half ’n Half
Since 2011, the genre of South African speculative fiction has seen a significant surfacing of new writers working within the genre. One of them is Charlie Human, the author of Apocalypse Now Now (2013) and Kill Baxter (2014). Our article analyses Human’s two novels in terms of overlapping mythological and historical lineages as well as spatial confluences and their influence on the conception and (re-)definition of South African whiteness. Using…
Cosmopolitan Criminality
Imraan Coovadia is fast becoming one of South Africa’s most celebrated contemporary novelists. Scholarship centred on his work is, however, in short supply. This article, through its focus on Coovadia’s second novel, Green-Eyed Thieves (2007), aims to explore the extent to which this prolific voice in the South African literary landscape is able to reflect complex (inter)national and cultural entanglements in his novel. The following analysis of …
In Search of a ‘Rock Star’
19 January 2015 marked the tenth anniversary of South African writer K. Sello Duiker's passing. Fifteen years after the publication of his first novel, Thirteen Cents, his works remain an important contribution to post-apartheid writing. His novels are taught at several South African universities, and they still attract interest for research, particularly amongst young academics. This article, which consists of two parts, commemorates Duiker's li…
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In Search of a ‘Rock Star’
19 January 2015 marked the tenth anniversary of South African writer K. Sello Duiker's passing. Fifteen years after the publication of his first novel, Thirteen Cents, his works remain an important contribution to post-apartheid writing. His novels are taught at several South African universities, and they still attract interest for research, particularly amongst young academics. This article, which consists of two parts, commemorates Duiker's li…
Half ’n Half
Since 2011, the genre of South African speculative fiction has seen a significant surfacing of new writers working within the genre. One of them is Charlie Human, the author of Apocalypse Now Now (2013) and Kill Baxter (2014). Our article analyses Human’s two novels in terms of overlapping mythological and historical lineages as well as spatial confluences and their influence on the conception and (re-)definition of South African whiteness. Using…
Cosmopolitan Criminality
Imraan Coovadia is fast becoming one of South Africa’s most celebrated contemporary novelists. Scholarship centred on his work is, however, in short supply. This article, through its focus on Coovadia’s second novel, Green-Eyed Thieves (2007), aims to explore the extent to which this prolific voice in the South African literary landscape is able to reflect complex (inter)national and cultural entanglements in his novel. The following analysis of …
Futures Forestalled … for Now
While the term ‘Afrofuturism’ has entered the global popular lexicon and is appropriately used to describe films like Black Panther, the term’s descriptive potential is necessarily culturally bound. In this article, I argue that the term is bound to an African-American context and that it cannot slip shoddily be applied to futuristic texts by African creatives in Africa. To problematise the term’s application in an African context, I provide an h…
Cultural Entanglement, Displacement and Contemporary Durban in Imraan Coovadia’s High Low In-between
This article focuses on Imraan Coovadia’s High Low In-between and investigates how the novel’s join protagonists, Nafisa and Shakeer, navigate their contemporary Durban. The mother and son, I point out, present two disparate subjectivities that engage with both the urban milieu of the city and a globalised world in very different ways. Both experience a sense of displacement in the city, but, as thew novel progresses, they manage to embrace Durba…
Left, Right then Left Again
The purpose of this article is to critically consider the roles that academic literacy facilitators fulfil in exposing students to Global Citizenship Education (GCE). In university disciplines, literacies are primary tools that students employ to interact with global events, knowledge, theories and problems. As such, multimodal literacies including written, audiovisual and cyber texts facilitate students’ access to the world through critical comm…
An Investigation of the Relationship Between Ethics-Oriented HRM Systems, Moral Attentiveness, and Deviant Workplace Behavior
Deviant workplace behaviors (DWB) cause enormous costs to organizations, sparking considerable interest among researchers and practitioners to identify factors that may prevent such behavior. Drawing on the theory of moral development, we examine the role of ethics-oriented human resource management (HRM) systems in mitigating DWB, as well as mechanisms that may mediate and moderate this relationship. Based on 232 employee-supervisor matched resp…
Poetry in Motion
This article examines how Imraan Coovadia’s The Institute for Taxi Poetry uses the taxi industry as a dynamic cultural space to explore intersections of mobility and identity in an alternate post-apartheid South Africa. Drawing on Mary Louise Pratt’s concept of contact zones and Mimi Sheller’s framework of mobility justice, this article argues that Coovadia reimagines the taxi as a metaphorical and literal space where diverse social and cultural …
Managerial Cognition and Corporate Social Responsibility Strategy
Given the growing importance of corporate social responsibility (CSR) to business, firms are increasingly taking a strategic approach to their CSR efforts. This study aims to explore how elements of managerial cognition interact to underpin firms' choices for specific CSR strategies. Following an abductive approach, we conduct qualitative research among six small and medium‐sized enterprises in China to develop a cognition‐based framework for CSR…
Writing Centre 2.0
This exploratory study investigates the integration of Generative Artificial Intelligence (GenAI) into a faculty-specific writing centre at a South African university. The study introduces a custom GPT, the HWC_CollaboWriter, which was designed to assist writing consultants by addressing lower-order concerns (LOCs) such as grammar and punctuation, freeing consultants to focus on higher-order concerns (HOCs) like argument structure and content dev…
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