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R.L. (Rachel Lara) van der Merwe, PhD

Faculty of Arts

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+31 50 36 35992

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r.l.van.der.merwe rug.nl

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Publications

A Beautiful Desolation: Finding Apartheid in South Africa’s Imagined Future

van der Merwe, R., 2023, (Accepted/In press) Atlas of Global Media.

Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter › Academic › peer-review

Whose media studies is it anyway?:: A decolonial response to media studies' new materialist inspired self-evaluations

van der Merwe, R., 11-Jan-2023, (Accepted/In press).

Research output: Contribution to conference › Paper › Academic

Brothers from another mother: Seeing the uncanny in US popular media depictions of South Africa

van der Merwe, R., Sept-2022, In: International Journal of Cultural Studies. 25, 5, p. 589-605 17 p.

Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Academic › peer-review

Africa On Demand: The production and distribution of African narratives through podcasting

van der Merwe, R., 21-Feb-2021, Routledge Handbook of African Media and Communication Studies . Mano, W. & Milton, V. C. (eds.). 1 ed. Abingdon: Routledge, p. 126-140 15 p.

Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter › Academic › peer-review

From Global to National: Mapping the Trajectory of the South African Video Game Industry

van der Merwe, R., 2021, Re-imagining Communication in Africa and the Caribbean: Global South Issues in Media, Culture and Technology . Dunn, H. S., Moyo, D., Lesitaokana, W. O. & Barnabas, S. B. (eds.). Palgrave MacMillan, p. 137-156 20 p.

Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter › Academic › peer-review

Imperial Play

van der Merwe, R., Mar-2021, In: Communication, Culture & Critique. 14, 1, p. 37-51 15 p.

Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Academic › peer-review

We are not South African: Decolonizing National Identity in a Post-Apartheid State

van der Merwe, R., 2020, 331 p.

Research output: Thesis › Thesis fully external

Gaming the Nation

van der Merwe, R., 7-Jan-2018, Center for Media, Religion and Culture.

Research output: Other contribution › Popular

The Imagined Communities of Toxic Puppies: Considering fan community discourse in the 2015 Hugo Awards “Puppygate” controversy.

Stevens, J. R. & van der Merwe, R., 2018, In: Participations: Journal of Audience and Reception Studies. 15, 1, p. 207-230 24 p.

Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Academic › peer-review

We are all amakwerekwere: #RhodesMustFall: nibbling at resilient colonialism in South Africa, by Francis Nyamnjoh, Cameroon, Langaa RPCIG, 2016

van der Merwe, R. L., 11-Oct-2018, In: Cultural Studies. 33, 5, p. 888-891 4 p.

Research output: Contribution to journal › Book/Film/Article review › Academic

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