Nick Shepherd

ORCID: 0000-0003-3378-7076
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Research Areas
  • Historical and Cultural Archaeology Studies
  • Cultural Heritage Management and Preservation
  • Archaeology and Rock Art Studies
  • Natural Language Processing Techniques
  • South African History and Culture
  • Archaeological Research and Protection
  • African history and culture studies
  • Geographies of human-animal interactions
  • Anthropological Studies and Insights
  • Archaeology and ancient environmental studies
  • Religion, Society, and Development
  • Anthropology: Ethics, History, Culture
  • Ecocriticism and Environmental Literature
  • Indigenous Cultures and History
  • Legal Issues in South Africa
  • Religion and Society Interactions
  • Archaeology and Cultural Heritage
  • Classical Philosophy and Thought
  • Water Governance and Infrastructure
  • Theological Perspectives and Practices
  • Pentecostalism and Christianity Studies
  • Religious Education and Schools
  • Museums and Cultural Heritage
  • Religion, Spirituality, and Psychology
  • Public Spaces through Art

Aarhus University
2003-2022

University of Pretoria
2014-2022

Central Denmark Region
2022

University of Cape Town
2003-2021

African Studies Centre
2003-2021

Trinity House
2018

Engineering Employers' Federation
2017

This article explores the use of theological action research as a mode professional development in Christian mission or ministry. Drawing on case study cycle within youth work agency London, benefits are interpreted through influence that participation has capital. Theological capital is developed construct to indicate relative workers experience fulfilling intentional ministry they aspire perform. The required challenging contexts and inter-disciplinary settings which occurs. From this,...

10.1179/ate.9.2.q17pq12031207v80 article EN Journal of Adult Theological Education 2012-12-01

▪ Abstract “Africa is various,” writes Kwame Anthony Appiah in defiance of the Eurocentric myth a unitary and unchanging continent. The politics archaeology Africa has been no less marked by variety. Yet, underlying this multiplicity historical experience are number common themes ideas. This review traces engagement between through an exploration these themes: first, as colonial science context European conquest subjugation African people territories; second, administration growth settler...

10.1146/annurev.anthro.31.040402.085424 article EN Annual Review of Anthropology 2002-09-11

This article uses images from the archive of John Goodwin, one first professional archaeologists in sub-Saharan Africa, to open up a set questions around relations work archaeology - particular, practices involving use `native' labour. It seeks tell story those men who dug, sieved, sorted, located sites and finds, fetched carried, pitched camp, cooked served food, negotiated with local chiefs suppliers, assisted interpretation artefacts events, yet remain unacknowledged official accounts...

10.1177/14696053030033003 article EN Journal of Social Archaeology 2003-09-25

This article is concerned with the materiality of memory and identity in post-colony, as mediated by corporeal remains colonial underclasses themselves. Prestwich Street a rapidly gentrifying part Cape Town, close to Waterfront, city’s glitzy international zone. The accidental discovery an early burial site course construction activities May 2003, its subsequent exhumation, became occasion fiercely contested public campaign. pitted pro-exhumation heritage managers, archaeologists property...

10.1177/1469605307067842 article EN Journal of Social Archaeology 2007-01-19

What form do the current and future catastrophes of Anthropocene take? Adapting a concept from Rod Nixon, this communication makes case for notion slow catastrophes, whose unfolding in space time is uneven entangled. Taking events Cape Town’s Day Zero drought as study, paper examines politics poetics water Anthropocene, implications Anthropogenic climate change urban life. It argues that rather than being understood an inert resource, fresh drinking complex object constructed at intersection...

10.3390/w11091744 article EN Water 2019-08-21

Abstract This article gives an account of the development archaeology in South Africa period 1870–2003, focusing on key formative ideas and contexts. Taking as its theme a Foucauldian notion 'knowledge construction', it attempts to understand form social practice rooted broader political economic Two periods were especially important emergence African archaeology. The first was 1923–1948, coinciding with local career John Goodwin, which saw institutionalisation specific, conception...

10.1080/0305707032000135842 article EN Journal of Southern African Studies 2003-12-01

The year 2011 marks the twenty-fifth anniversary of World Archaeological Congress (WAC). WAC marked a bold intervention in politics knowledge archaeology context mid-1980s. But how has it fared contemporary worlds practice? In this paper, two senior members take close and critical look at changing fortunes, meanings, contexts organization. At its centre, is an account controversial meeting between Executive Rio Tinto Limited, mining multinational, Melbourne 2007. Other parts paper engage...

10.1179/175355311x13086617126567 article EN Public Archaeology 2011-05-01

On March 9th 2015, Chumane Maxwele, a student at the University of Cape Town, threw bucket shit statue Cecil Rhodes, prominently sited main pedestrian entrance to university. A month later, following concerted protest action by student-led social movement, #RhodesMustFall, was removed. In this paper I situate Rhodes and events #RMF into historical relation with broader memorial symbolic landscape Groote Schuur estate, which Town forms part. argue that an imperial legacy is deeply inscribed...

10.1080/13604813.2020.1784579 article EN City 2020-07-03

Abstract Archaeology has to re-think the terms of its practice, because current debate tends intervene at level theory, which leaves discipline ungrounded in a theory practice or conception historical coming into being archaeology as discipline. From South African perspective, grand narrative is primarily concerned with development social West but it does not provide - cannot – an account formation and signifying situated broader political context. Central this re-thinking, I argue, are...

10.1017/s1380203800002117 article EN Archaeological Dialogues 2002-12-01

10.1007/s10761-015-0310-9 article EN International Journal of Historical Archaeology 2015-09-12

This paper draws on the experiences and practices of theological educators in UK to offer pedagogical insights into transformational learning discipleship ministry training contexts. Our work suggests that engaging whole person, encouraging real encounters, stimulating imagination identifying threshold concepts are noteworthy tools enhance learning. We describe examples teaching illustrate these qualities suggest way which learners relate themselves, others process indicative conclude...

10.1080/1756073x.2018.1458178 article EN Practical Theology 2018-04-18
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