Reimagining Social Justice Scholarship Creative Decolonial Feminisms in South Africa and Beyond

Foreword

Shose Kessi

1. Re-imaginings for decolonial feminist gender and sexual justice scholarship and praxis

Tamara Shefer, Carmine Rustin and Floretta Boonzaier

Part I: Situated, affective and spiritual imaginaries and resistances

2. Exploring a situated imaginary towards transversal dialogical epistemologies

Kharnita Mohamed

3. Women’s accounts of happiness: centering affect and relationality in gender justice scholarship 

Carmine Rustin 

4. The Art of Loving Black Project. Number 1

Kopano Ratele

5. Navigating gender and sexuality with an ancestral calling: A conversation amongst two feminist healers

Nomxolisi Albert and Wanelisa Xaba

6. Empathy education in the eyes of its perpetual pupils 

Ross Truscott

Part II: Scholarly praxis in and through art, activist and reflexive creativities

7. The art of archiving and transforming: a poetics

Rosemarie Buikema

8. Stitching through obstetric violence: threading narratives for research-creation, teaching and advocacy

Puleng Segalo and Veronica Mitchell

9. Navigating Love, Belonging and Fractured Blackness in Cape Town: The imagined character of Radical Makazi through photography and storytelling

Thandiwe Msebenzi and Nadira Omarjee

10. A researcher composts: finding meaning in the afterlife of fieldwork

Pralini Naidoo

11. Uitgeskryf, die klimeid se lyf: The politics of being for womxn in restricted spaces: A reflective visual essay.

Cheri Hugo and Janine Lange

12. Counterpublic sphere and alternative African feminist digital media and activisms

Tigist Shewarega Hussen

Part III: (De)centering selves: Embodied, relational and reflexive methodologies

13. Researching Ourselves, Researching Others: Making Meaning of Research on Violence and Trauma

Jude Daya, Aphiwe Mhlangulana, Lesedi Mosime, Khanysile Thusi, Caron Zimri, Yuri Behari-Leak, Tumi Mpofu, Kajal Carr, Floretta Boonzaier,  and Skye Chirape

14. Rethinking Sexuality Education in South African Contexts: Decolonial feminist provocations

Sisa Ngabaza and Tamara Shefer

15. Trespassing the borders of patriarchy: A feminist walking methodology for resistance and justice

Janine Hannibal

16. Wild seaswimming methodologies for decolonial feminist justice scholarship

Vivienne Bozalek and Tamara Shefer

Biography

Tamara Shefer is Professor of Women’s and Gender Studies, Faculty of Arts and Humanities, University of the Western Cape. She has primarily focused on gender and sexual justice with particular emphasis on young people and is currently engaged with reconceptualising academic knowledge with emphasis on embodied, affective, relational feminist, decolonial scholarship, and working on environmental justice and the Blue Humanities.

Carmine Rustin is a lecturer in the Department of Women’s and Gender Studies, University of the Western Cape. She has more than 20 years research and research management experience across various sectors including a research parastatal, a NGO, as well as in the legislative sector. Carmine is interested in matters related to gender justice, gender related policies and legislation, feminist methodologies, happiness, subjective well-being and quality of life.

Floretta Boonzaier is Professor at the Department of Psychology, University of Cape Town, and Co-Director of the Hub for Decolonial Feminist Psychologies in Africa. She researches and works within and across feminist, critical and decolonial psychologies, intersectional subjectivities, gendered and sexual violence. She is also noted for her expertise in qualitative methodologies, specifically in narrative, decolonial and participatory approaches.