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View article: “Stopped in the middle” with Elm,arie Costandius: playing with interruptions/continuities
“Stopped in the middle” with Elm,arie Costandius: playing with interruptions/continuities Open
This paper is written in memory of our friend and colleague, Elmarie Costandius, a visual artist and academic, whose untimely and unexpected death deeply affected us. While we had worked with Elmarie in various research projects, short cou…
View article: Routledge International Handbook of Feminisms and Gender Studies
Routledge International Handbook of Feminisms and Gender Studies Open
This Handbook is an important contribution to the recent history of and contemporary debates on feminist, gender, and women’s studies seen in a global perspective. It tackles current developments in the area by examining their multiple con…
View article: Introduction
Introduction Open
This chapter overviews the focus, structure and cross-cutting themes of the handbook. It speaks to the unique nature of the handbook, which brings together essays from renowned feminist and gender studies academics from the ‘global North’ …
View article: Affective Oceanic Seaswimming and Encounters for Care-Full Environmental Communication
Affective Oceanic Seaswimming and Encounters for Care-Full Environmental Communication Open
Our oceanic swimming practice began as part of the project of doing scholarship differently in contemporary South African post-apartheid contexts. Swimming-writing-reading not only enables different ways of doing inquiry but also prompts n…
View article: Wild Sea Swimming as a Slow Intimacy: Towards Reconfiguring Scholarship
Wild Sea Swimming as a Slow Intimacy: Towards Reconfiguring Scholarship Open
Our oceanic swimming-writing-reading together practice coincided with the COVID-19 pandemic outbreak and subsequent lockdown in South Africa. Awash with vulnerability, precarity, and isolation, oceanic swimming-writing-reading became one o…
View article: Issue Information
Issue Information Open
Sponsored by the European Association of Social Psychology, the European Journal of Social Psychology is a truly international forum for high quality, peer reviewed, original research in all areas of social psychology and from all parts of…
View article: Re-viewing Peer Reviewing: Towards an Affirmative Scholarship
Re-viewing Peer Reviewing: Towards an Affirmative Scholarship Open
Although often unacknowledged and unrewarded, peer reviewing is a crucial part of the process of academic scholarship. Surprisingly, not much has been written on the process and experience of peer reviewing, besides a few articles in journ…
View article: Thinking with affect, embodiment, care and relationality to do and teach critical research differently
Thinking with affect, embodiment, care and relationality to do and teach critical research differently Open
Drawing on experiences of research, and teaching research, and other current scholarship within local critical, decolonial and feminist research, I argue the importance of a more nuanced application of reflexive practices in research. Loca…
View article: Intimacy and Injury: In the Wake of #MeToo in India and South Africa
Intimacy and Injury: In the Wake of #MeToo in India and South Africa Open
Review of the book Intimacy and Injury: In the Wake of #MeToo in India and South Africa, edited by Nicky Falkof, Shilpa Phadke, and Srila Roy.
View article: ‘Troubling’ Politics of Research on Young Sexual Practices in South African Contexts
‘Troubling’ Politics of Research on Young Sexual Practices in South African Contexts Open
In this article, I reflect on the last few decades of research on young sexual practices in the post-apartheid context of South Africa. I am concerned here to critically interrogate this body of work and its political effects, much of it s…
View article: Men, masculinities, peace, and violence
Men, masculinities, peace, and violence Open
The relations between men, masculinities and violence, peace, justice, and conflict are of clear importance, yet often remain unaddressed explicitly in analysis, policy, and practice. This chapter overviews the large body of feminist and c…
View article: Men, Masculinities, and Peace, Justice, Conflict, and Violence : A Multi-level Overview
Men, Masculinities, and Peace, Justice, Conflict, and Violence : A Multi-level Overview Open
The relations between men, masculinities and violence, peace, justice, and conflict are of clear importance, yet often remain unaddressed explicitly in analysis, policy, and practice. This chapter overviews the large body of feminist and c…
View article: A feminist politics of shame: Shame and its contested possibilities
A feminist politics of shame: Shame and its contested possibilities Open
This editorial piece introduces a special issue on the feminist politics of shame. It locates the special issue in the larger framework of scholarship on feminist approaches to shame and specifically feminist psychological emphases, and co…
View article: Does a history of sexual and physical childhood abuse contribute to HIV infection risk in adulthood? A study among post-natal women in Harare, Zimbabwe
Does a history of sexual and physical childhood abuse contribute to HIV infection risk in adulthood? A study among post-natal women in Harare, Zimbabwe Open
This study highlights that child physical and/or sexual abuse may increase risk for HIV acquisition. Further research is needed to assess the pathways to HIV acquisition from childhood to adulthood. Prevention of child abuse must form part…
View article: Students’ narratives on gender and sexuality in the project of social justice and belonging in higher education
Students’ narratives on gender and sexuality in the project of social justice and belonging in higher education Open
Student protests in South Africa over the last few years have re-energized the project of social justice in higher education. While emphasis has been on decolonizing the curriculum and the university spaces, there has also been a powerful …
View article: Does a history of sexual and physical childhood abuse contribute to HIV infection risk in adulthood? A study among post-natal women in Harare, Zimbabwe
Does a history of sexual and physical childhood abuse contribute to HIV infection risk in adulthood? A study among post-natal women in Harare, Zimbabwe Open
Background Sexual and physical abuse in childhood creates a great health burden including on mental and reproductive health. A possible link between child abuse and HIV infection has increasingly attracted attention. This paper investigate…
View article: SOUTH AFRICAN PSYCHOLOGICAL WORK ON BOYS, MEN AND MASCULINITIES: TWO DECADES OF MASCULINITY RESEARCH POST FIRST DEMOCRATIC ELECTIONS (1994 – 2011)
SOUTH AFRICAN PSYCHOLOGICAL WORK ON BOYS, MEN AND MASCULINITIES: TWO DECADES OF MASCULINITY RESEARCH POST FIRST DEMOCRATIC ELECTIONS (1994 – 2011) Open
The research on masculinities in South Africa has grown rapidly over the last two decades. This paper is an attempt to review of theory and research on masculinities published in South Africa and unpacks the key foci of South African Psych…