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Researcher

Rafaël Verbuyst

Awards & Distinctions

39 Results

2025

Grappling with refusal, self-representation, and visual sovereignty at the Knoflokskraal Khoisan 'reclaim'

Rafaël VerbuystWilliam Ellis

A1 Journal Article in CRITICAL ARTS-SOUTH-NORTH CULTURAL AND MEDIA STUDIES

Indigenous resurgence in the Cape : the intellectual roots and political aspirations of Khoisan revivalism

Rafaël Verbuyst

A1 Journal Article in SOUTH AFRICAN HISTORICAL JOURNAL

Sensing indigeneity : a sensory ethnography of the presence of the past among newly identifying indigenous people in South Africa

Rafaël Verbuyst

A1 Journal Article in CRITIQUE OF ANTHROPOLOGY

Settler colonialism and therapeutic discourses on the past : a response to Burnett et al.’s ‘a politics of reminding’

Rafaël Verbuyst

A1 Journal Article in CRITICAL DISCOURSE STUDIES

2024

'Feeling their way through their cultural roots' : theorising the Khoisan revivalist critique of authenticity from below

Rafaël Verbuyst

A1 Journal Article in ANTHROPOLOGY SOUTHERN AFRICA

Emic and etic perspectives on Khoisan revivalism : a response to Bam, Coetzee, Gordon, and Øvernes. Khoisan consciousness : an ethnography of emic histories and indigenous revivalism in Post-Apartheid Cape Town

Rafaël Verbuyst

Rethinking Khoe and San indigeneity, language and culture in Southern Africa

Rafaël Verbuyst

2023

Ausi told me : why cape herstoriographies matter

Rafaël Verbuyst

Erfgoed, vastgoed, gemeengoed : het Pand als gecontesteerde erfgoedsite

Hanne CottynRafaël Verbuyst

Article in a magazine

Farewell to Henry Charles (Jatti) Bredekamp (1945–2023) : the ‘Father of Khoisan Revivalism’

Rafaël Verbuyst

Henry Bredekamp and the Khoisan : the living legacy of a renowned South African historian

Rafaël Verbuyst

Hoe om Khoisan-herlewing te verstaan

Rafaël Verbuyst

How to live together in contested heritage sites, from Belgium to Bolivia

Hanne CottynRafaël Verbuyst

How to make sense of Khoisan revivalism

Rafaël Verbuyst

How to make sense of Khoisan revivalism

Rafaël Verbuyst

Indigeneity, autochthony, and belonging : conceptual ambiguity as an impediment to decolonisation in South Africa

Rafaël Verbuyst

Bookchapter in Decolonising political concepts

Indigenous history, activism, and the decolonizing university : challenges, opportunities, and the struggle over the Khoisan past in post-apartheid South Africa

June BamRafaël Verbuyst

Bookchapter in Professional historians in public : old and new roles revisited

Introducing 'navigating failure in ethnography' : a forum about failure in ethnographic research

Rafaël VerbuystAnna Galazka

A2 Journal Article in JOURNAL OF ORGANIZATIONAL ETHNOGRAPHY

The decolonial turn in Khoisan studies : opportunities, pitfalls, and new directions in longstanding debates concerning Southern Africa's indigenous people

Rafaël Verbuyst

A1 Journal Article in CRITICAL ARTS-SOUTH-NORTH CULTURAL AND MEDIA STUDIES

2022

Castle of Good Hope : from bastion of colonialism to beacon of decolonization?

Rafaël Verbuyst

Fraught with friction : inclusive development for informal workers in urban Ghana

Tanja D. HendriksRafaël VerbuystMayke Kaag

A1 Journal Article in EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF DEVELOPMENT RESEARCH

Hanne CottynRafaël Verbuyst

Khoisan consciousness : an ethnography of emic histories and indigenous revivalism in post-Apartheid Cape Town

Rafaël Verbuyst

Khoisan consciousness : articulating indigeneity in post-Apartheid Cape Town

Rafaël Verbuyst

A2 Journal Article in AFRIKA FOCUS

Khoisan identity, politics, and representation in post-apartheid South Africa (1994-2022) : a selective and annotated bibliography

Rafaël Verbuyst

A2 Journal Article in ELECTRONIC JOURNAL OF AFRICANA BIBLIOGRAPHY

‘The real history of the country’? Expropriation without compensation and competing master narratives about land (dis)possession in South Africa

Danelle van Zyl-HermannRafaël Verbuyst

A1 Journal Article in JOURNAL OF SOUTHERN AFRICAN STUDIES

2021

Khoisan Consciousness : articulating indigeneity in post-apartheid Cape Town

Rafaël VerbuystBerber BevernageWilliam EllisHanne Cottyn

2020

Claiming Cape Town : towards a symbolic Interpretation of Khoisan activism and land claims

Rafaël Verbuyst

Bookchapter in Sociocultural anthropology : critical and primary sources

De San in zuidelijk Afrika : over solastalgie, ‘rewilding’ en een oproep tot ‘nieuwe zuinigheid’

Frans KamsteegRafaël VerbuystHarry Wels

Layered decolonization in South Africa : Khoisan strategic essentialism and the notion of incommensurability

Rafaël Verbuyst

Bookchapter in Recognition, reconciliation and restoration : applying a postcolonial understanding in social work and healing

South Africa’s settler-colonial present : Khoisan revivalism and the question of indigeneity

Lorenzo VeraciniRafaël Verbuyst

A1 Journal Article in SOCIAL DYNAMICS-A JOURNAL OF AFRICAN STUDIES

2019

Rafaël Verbuyst

Editorial material

2018

Khoisan revivalism and the therapeutics of history

Rafaël Verbuyst

The intellectual roots and political aspirations of Khoisan revivalism in post-apartheid South Africa

Rafaël Verbuyst

2017

Fraught with friction : informal workers and (their) organizations

Rafaël VerbuystTanja Hendriks

Khoisanactivisme en inheemse landeisen in Zuid-Afrika : enkele vraagstukken voor historici

Rafaël Verbuyst

A4 Journal Article in GRONIEK

The historical layers of decolonization in South Africa : from the Khoisan to ‘#RhodesMustFall’ and back again

Rafaël Verbuyst

2016

Claiming Cape Town : towards a symbolic interpretation of Khoisan activism and land claims

Rafaël Verbuyst

A1 Journal Article in ANTHROPOLOGY SOUTHERN AFRICA

2013

History, historians and the South African Truth and reconciliation commission

Rafaël Verbuyst

A2 Journal Article in NEW CONTREE