Suryakanthie Chetty
Biographic Data
| ID | 5646898 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Suryakanthie Chetty |
| GIVEN NAMES | Suryakanthie |
| FAMILY NAME | Chetty |
| SIGNATURE | CHETTY S |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of South Africa |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-4155-8583 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 14 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 14 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2005 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Scientific Salvation’ and Development
Teaching Texts
Notes1 SAHJ, ‘SAHJ Podcast, Episode 3: Roundtable on “Teaching Texts”,’ SAHJ Podcast, 13 July 2023, uploaded 14 July 2023, 1:41 hours, https://www.podbean.com/ew/pb-iw3du-14571b8.2 See T. Simpson, Umkhonto we Sizwe: The ANC's Armed Struggle (Cape Town: Penguin Books, 2016).3 D. Posel, The Making of Apartheid 1948–1961: Conflict and Compromise (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1991); D. O’Meara, Forty Lost Years: The Apartheid State and the Politics of th…
‘Africa Forms the Key’
Pale Blue Dot
Containing the ripple of hope
The reportage of Robert Kennedy’s visit to South Africa in 1966 by the Afrikaans press reflected the incipient fractures within Afrikaner identity even as apartheid was at its zenith. This paper focuses on how Kennedy was portrayed in the Afrikaans press during the course of four days in South Africa, as both a potentially constructive as well as a destructive force for social and political change. It argues that the more conservative Afrikaans n…
Climate change and the course of Global History
No abstract available
A Military History of Modern South Africa
The underlying thread running through Ian Van Der Waag's A Military History of Modern South Africa is the contextualisation of South African military structures within the history of the country. V
Biometric state
No abstract available
Mothering the ‘nation’
During the South African war at the beginning of the twentieth century, Isie Smuts, wife of Jan Smuts, was an ardent Afrikaner nationalist with strong hostility towards the British – often in contrast to her husband’s policy of reconciliation. During the Second World War however her antipathy towards Britain was put aside in favour of the much more powerful fight against Nazism. As President of the Gifts and Comforts Fund, she was very much a “ha…
Temple Worship, Hinduism and the Making of South African Indian Identity
This article argues that a key part of the religious identity of South African Indians is derived from their ancestral origins in India with their subsequent effect on their consciousness. A prevalent theme here is the way in which India has been perceived as the ultimate source of authority for Hindu religious practice - which is viewed as the most authentic when modelled on India. Linked to this is the notion of space - the closer one is geogra…
Temple Worship, Hinduism and the Making of South African Indian Identity
This article argues that a key part of the religious identity of South African Indians is derived from their ancestral origins in India with their subsequent effect on their consciousness. A prevalent theme here is the way in which India has been perceived as the ultimate source of authority for Hindu religious practice – which is viewed as the most authentic when modelled on India. Linked to this is the notion of space – the closer one is geogra…
The Anatomy of a South African Genocide
Mahomed Adkhikari's slim volume, The Anatomy of a South African Genocide: The Extermination of the Cape San Peoples, makes the argument, evident in the title itself, that the encounter between the
Poverty and Development
All the News that's Fit to Print
(2005). All the News that's Fit to Print: The Print Media of the Second World War and its Portrayal of the Gendered and Racial Identities of the War's Participants. South African Historical Journal: Vol. 54, No. 1, pp. 30-53
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All the News that's Fit to Print
(2005). All the News that's Fit to Print: The Print Media of the Second World War and its Portrayal of the Gendered and Racial Identities of the War's Participants. South African Historical Journal: Vol. 54, No. 1, pp. 30-53
Poverty and Development
Temple Worship, Hinduism and the Making of South African Indian Identity
This article argues that a key part of the religious identity of South African Indians is derived from their ancestral origins in India with their subsequent effect on their consciousness. A prevalent theme here is the way in which India has been perceived as the ultimate source of authority for Hindu religious practice - which is viewed as the most authentic when modelled on India. Linked to this is the notion of space - the closer one is geogra…
Temple Worship, Hinduism and the Making of South African Indian Identity
This article argues that a key part of the religious identity of South African Indians is derived from their ancestral origins in India with their subsequent effect on their consciousness. A prevalent theme here is the way in which India has been perceived as the ultimate source of authority for Hindu religious practice – which is viewed as the most authentic when modelled on India. Linked to this is the notion of space – the closer one is geogra…
The Anatomy of a South African Genocide
Mahomed Adkhikari's slim volume, The Anatomy of a South African Genocide: The Extermination of the Cape San Peoples, makes the argument, evident in the title itself, that the encounter between the
Biometric state
No abstract available
Mothering the ‘nation’
During the South African war at the beginning of the twentieth century, Isie Smuts, wife of Jan Smuts, was an ardent Afrikaner nationalist with strong hostility towards the British – often in contrast to her husband’s policy of reconciliation. During the Second World War however her antipathy towards Britain was put aside in favour of the much more powerful fight against Nazism. As President of the Gifts and Comforts Fund, she was very much a “ha…
Climate change and the course of Global History
No abstract available
A Military History of Modern South Africa
The underlying thread running through Ian Van Der Waag's A Military History of Modern South Africa is the contextualisation of South African military structures within the history of the country. V
Containing the ripple of hope
The reportage of Robert Kennedy’s visit to South Africa in 1966 by the Afrikaans press reflected the incipient fractures within Afrikaner identity even as apartheid was at its zenith. This paper focuses on how Kennedy was portrayed in the Afrikaans press during the course of four days in South Africa, as both a potentially constructive as well as a destructive force for social and political change. It argues that the more conservative Afrikaans n…
‘Africa Forms the Key’
Pale Blue Dot
Teaching Texts
Notes1 SAHJ, ‘SAHJ Podcast, Episode 3: Roundtable on “Teaching Texts”,’ SAHJ Podcast, 13 July 2023, uploaded 14 July 2023, 1:41 hours, https://www.podbean.com/ew/pb-iw3du-14571b8.2 See T. Simpson, Umkhonto we Sizwe: The ANC's Armed Struggle (Cape Town: Penguin Books, 2016).3 D. Posel, The Making of Apartheid 1948–1961: Conflict and Compromise (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1991); D. O’Meara, Forty Lost Years: The Apartheid State and the Politics of th…
Scientific Salvation’ and Development
History (9 works) · Political science (8 works) · South African History and Culture (8 works) · African history and culture studies (7 works) · Law (7 works) · Geography (5 works) · History (5 works) · Sociology (5 works) · Gender Studies (4 works) · Law (4 works)