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The limits of discourse: masculinity as vulnerability
(UNISA PressRoutledge, 2013)
For many, gender equity being fair to women and men is a zero sum game in which men should be willing to
give up their privileges for the creation of a more equitable and just society. The idea that men might benefit
from ...
Eat and/or be eaten: The evolutionary roots of violence?
(SUN, 2015)
This contribution raises the question about where things have gone wrong in evolutionary history. In classic Christian discourse it is typically assumed that the primary problem is human sin, while the problem of natural ...
Perceptions of traditional health practitioners on violence in the Helderberg Municipal Area, Western Cape
(AOSIS OpenJournals, 2013)
This study on perceptions of violence was conducted with 56 traditional health practitioners (diviners: amagrirha) in the Helderberg Municipal Area of Cape Town Metro. It forms a subsection of a larger study on African ...
'... a huge monster that should be feared and not done': Lessons learned in sexuality education classes in South Africa
(UNISA, 2015)
Research has foregrounded the way in which heterosexual practices for many young people are not
infrequently bound up with violence and unequal transactional power relations. The Life Orientation
sexuality education ...
Politicization and resistance in the Zimbabwean national army
(Oxford University Press, 2017)
While the dominant discourse in Zimbabwe on and about soldiers is that they are perpetrators of political violence, this does not always reflect the lived experiences of soldiers who joined the army in post-independence ...
Martyrdom, violence, and dignity
(Escola Superior Teologia, 2019)
This article reconsiders historically based arguments for Christian martyrdom,
subjecting the tradition to an analysis suited to liberation of the marginalized. It begins
with a description of the historical development ...
Be a little careful: Women, violence, and performance in India
(Cambridge University Press, 2019)
In this article Swati Arora analyzes a contemporary Indian feminist performance, Thoda Dhyaan Se (A Little Carefully, 2013), by framing it in the spatial ecosystem of the city of Delhi and exploring its engagement with ...