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Showcasing creative decolonial feminist and critical social justice scholarship, located in a South African context, this book works across modalities and disciplines, and within art and activism, to challenge hegemonic and oppressive forms of gender and sexuality.
List of contents
Foreword
1. Re-imaginings for decolonial feminist gender and sexual justice scholarship and praxis
Part I: Situated, affective and spiritual imaginaries and resistances2. Exploring a situated imaginary towards transversal dialogical epistemologies
3. Women's accounts of happiness: centering affect and relationality in gender justice scholarship
4. The Art of Loving Black Project. Number 1
5. Navigating gender and sexuality with an ancestral calling: A conversation amongst two feminist healers
6. Empathy education in the eyes of its perpetual pupils
Part II: Scholarly praxis in and through art, activist and reflexive creativities7. The art of archiving and transforming: a poetics
8. Stitching through obstetric violence: threading narratives for research-creation, teaching and advocacy
9. Navigating Love, Belonging and Fractured Blackness in Cape Town: The imagined character of
Radical Makazi through photography and storytelling
10. A researcher composts: finding meaning in the afterlife of fieldwork
11. Uitgeskryf, die klimeid se lyf: The politics of being for womxn in restricted spaces: A reflective visual essay.
12. Counterpublic sphere and alternative African feminist digital media and activisms
Part III: (De)centering selves: Embodied, relational and reflexive methodologies13. Researching Ourselves, Researching Others: Making Meaning of Research on Violence and Trauma
14. Rethinking Sexuality Education in South African Contexts: Decolonial feminist provocations
15. Trespassing the borders of patriarchy: A feminist walking methodology for resistance and justice
16. Wild seaswimming methodologies for decolonial feminist justice scholarship
About the author
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.
