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Women’s and Gender Studies (WGS) is an interdisciplinary programme which aims to promote scholarship on gender issues in South Africa, and to contribute to the challenge of gender transformation in the university and in society at large.
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Thinking with/in surfing: Podcasting as public pedagogy and scholarship in/for the global South
(University of the Western Cape, 2023)This article introduces The Deep Duck Dive —a podcast engaging with the oceanic turn in the global South by focusing on issues that matter within surfing as a lifestyle sport. As co-hosts of the podcast, we have approached ... -
Design principles to develop digital innovation skills: a design-based research approach
(Springer, 2023)The digitisation of the world has led to a multitude of far-reaching implications that require students to be prepared for the dynamic era of rapid change, complexity, fluidity, and ubiquity in which they will work at the ... -
Disrupting the Colonial Gaze Towards Alternative Sexual Justice Engagements With Young People in South Africa
(Taylor and Francis Ltd., 2023)This chapter unpacks the failures and embeddedness of much of the research on young sexualities in South Africa in an exploitative and epistemologically violent politics of knowledge. I argue that it is not only a lack of ... -
Effect of different irrigation systems
(Elsevier GmbH, 2023)All commercial apple fruit (Malus Domestica (Borkh) exported from semi-arid regions are grown under irrigation with drip and micro sprinkler systems being the most widely used. Few studies have directly compared ... -
Greener on the other side: tracing stories of amaranth and moringa through indenture
(Routledge, 2023)All commercial apple fruit (Malus Domestica (Borkh) exported from semi-arid regions are grown under irrigation with drip and micro sprinkler systems being the most widely used. Few studies have directly compared ... -
Ghosts of the Indian Ocean
(Routledge, 2003)Once I dreamt about the ghosts of whales and dolphin sand unknown people deep in the underbelly of the harbour, ,just South of Durban’s promenade. Skeletal and blurry they whirled and murmured messages of murder and cruelty ... -
South African critical masculinities studies: a scan of past, current and emerging priorities
(Routledge, 2023)Depending on the position from which it is read, and what is regarded as the beginning of the history of the field, South African critical studies on men and masculinities have a relatively estimable though comparatively ... -
Re-viewing Peer Reviewing: Towards an Affirmative Scholarship
(University of Johannesburg, 2023)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 ... -
Food shaming and race, and hungry translations
(Taylor & Francis, 2023)Eating While Black: Food Shaming and Race in America by Psyche A. Williams-Forson (2022) and Hungry Translations: Relearning the World Through Radical Vulnerability by Richa Nagar (2019) deal with food and hunger in relation ... -
Greener on the other side: Tracing stories of amaranth and moringa through indenture
(Taylor and Francis Group, 2023)My research, with its focus on women and food seed through the lens of indenture, has led me into the world ofleafy green vegetables and their intimate connection to women who had been brought to South Africa to servicecolonial ... -
Parents resist sexuality education through digital activism
(SAGE Publications, 2022)South Africa has high rates of HIV infection among its young population, high rates of unintended pregnancy among the youth, and extremely high rates of gender-based violence. Given all this, it is essential that young people ... -
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 ... -
Under construction: Toward a theory and praxis of queer peacebuilding
(Universidad Nacional de Costa Rica, 2023)| This article explores what queer as a concept brings to peacebuilding, presenting a guiding framework and introduction for a special issue on queer peacebuilding. It offers an initial approach to the topic, which means ... -
Participatory relationships matter: Doctoral students traversing the academy
(SAGE Publications, 2022)In this article, we take our thoughts for a walk through our three different doctoral journeys and experiences with the Post Philosophies and the Doing of Inquiry Webinar Series (2020–2021). The webinars presented an ... -
Obstetric violence within students’ rite of passage: The reproduction of the obstetric subject and its racialised (m)other
(UNISA Press, 2021)Building on the work of Mbembe (2019) and Silva (2007), we theorise how the obstetric institution can still be considered fundamentally modern, that is, entangled with colonialism, slavery, bio- and necropolitics ... -
Touching matters: Affective entanglements in Corona time
(SAGE Publications, 2021)This article troubles touch as requiring embodied proximity, through an affective account of virtual touch during coronatime. Interested in doing academia differently, we started an online Barad readingwriting group from ... -
‘I could have done everything and why not?’: Young women’s complex constructions of sexual agency in the context of sexualities education in Life Orientation in South African schools
(University of the Free State, 2015)Progressive policies protecting women’s rights to make reproductive decisions and the recent increase in literature exploring female sexual agency do not appear to have impacted on more equitable sexual relations in all ... -
Governmentality and South Africa’s edifice of gender and sexual rights
(SAGE, 2021)Leading feminist scholars and activists have critiqued the current impact of South Africa’s provisions for gender equality and sexual rights. The country boasts one of the most progressive constitutions in the world, and ... -
Men, masculinities, peace, and violence: A multi-level overview on justice and conflict
(Routledge, 2021)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 ... -
Students’ narratives on gender and sexuality in the project of social justice and belonging in higher education
(South African Journal of Higher Education, 2018)Student protests in South Africa flag the well-documented lack of progress in transforming universities which mirror deeply entrenched inequalities. The imperative to challenge a system of higher education that continues ...
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