Projects

2022: Ways of Reading After the Fire: Creative Knowledge Production in African Studies

An ongoing collaborative project between colleagues at the University of Basel and the University of Cape Town in response to a forthcoming exhibition commemorating the tragic 2021 fire at the Jagger Library at the University of Cape Town, one of the most extensive collections of African studies material in the world.

Activities:

• Exhibition response workshop (Cape Town) 25 April 2022
• Writing workshop (Cape Town) 26 April 2022
• Curators guest talk (Basel) 3 June 2022
• Conference Panel (Freiburg) 7-10 June 2022
• Publication (2023)

2020: Deschooling: climate and art

Mediator Fellowship at Research Ecologies & Archival Development (READ) lab at School of Commons (SOC), Zurich University of Arts

Publications
 

Peer-reviewed articles 

McBride, S. (forthcoming) Land as material and metaphor for climate change in contemporary South African art”, Journal of Southern African Studies

McBride, S. (2022) Lower Orange River views, Social Dynamics, DOI: 10.1080/02533952.2022.2039436

McBride, S. (2022) Rethinking river resilience: the lower Orange/Gariep river, Social Dynamics, DOI: 10.1080/02533952.2022.2017602

McBride, S. (2017) “Exploring the Dynamics of Collaborative Accountability in South Africa's Municipalities”. State of Local Governance Publication. Good Governance Learning Network


Book chapters

McBride, S. (under review) Afterlives of imperialism: climate change and South African energy companies in the Hinterland in edited volume (name TBC) edited by Esther Peeren, Pamila Gupta, Sarah Nuttall and Hanneke Stuit, Palgrave Macmillan.


Dissertations 

McBride, S. (2015) “Exploring the political communication dynamics in South Africa’s platinum industry: the case of Marikana.” MA Dissertation. University of Cape Town

McBride, S. (2011) “HIV/AIDS and The Forgotten Majority: A Gendered Perspective of States’ Fulfilment of the 2001 Declaration of Commitment on HIV/AIDS amongst Refugee Populations.” MA Dissertation. University of the Witwatersrand
 

Full CV available on request