Pregnancy capacity, and gestational desire are shared by people of different genders and sexes. Yet, gestational embodiment and subjectivity are feminized in the normative cisheteropatriarchal pregnancy imaginary where ...
Time poverty remains a critical issue for water access across the globe. However, research on the time spent for water collection and the factors associated with collection time inequalities and access heterogeneities is ...
This article focuses on the uses of spice as a method of healing in selected dishes within a Durban Indian foodscape. Beyond its culinary potential (taste, flavour, seasoning), the article motivates spice as having particular ...
With the rise of Hindu nationalist statecraft under the Modi regime, India finds itself at a perilous conjuncture that compels a critical rethinking of the political economy of the world’s largest democracy. In this article, ...
Indigenous knowledge systems embody a holistic, inclusive view of the world and foreground interconnectedness for the promotion of life. Through reflective engagement with the author’s positioning as an Indigenous researcher, ...
This focus explores queer Black and Brown feminist and utopian politics as imagined in modern-day alternative nightlife spaces. This is done through case studies of the QTPOC (Queer and Trans People of Colour) nightlife ...
INTRODUCTION. South Africa has an enabling legislative and policy framework that promotes the protection of adolescents and young people’s sexual and reproductive health and rights. Much of the literature in this field has ...
Enworo, Oko Chima(University of Pretoria, 2023-05)
This study illustrates how indigenous social protection systems deal with covariate shocks in Southeastern Nigeria. It emphasises the dimensions, functions, and potential of these indigenous systems in managing the risks ...
Nkoli, Motsoakgomo Papi(University of Pretoria, 2023)
South Africa’s national response to the advent of the CoVID-19 pandemic included government’s announcement of the “extraordinary coronavirus budget” of R500 billion that was aimed at cushioning society and the economy from ...
Much reproductive scholarship presumes that cisgender men do not wish to become pregnant. And within scholarly discussions on womb transplant technology in particular, cis men's desires to be pregnant are constructed as ...
Feminists across a variety of contexts have written extensively about womanhood. Recently the question of difference—to account for the cultural, ethnic and racial diversity among women themselves—has become a highly ...
Dlamini, Thandwa Sinenhlanhla(University of Pretoria, 2022)
This study focuses on the constructions of women’s economic empowerment in microfinance between World Vision, its partners, and boMake. The study adopts an ethnographic stance and examines the ideologies and governance ...
BACKGROUND : Black sexual minority men (SMM) ages 30 and older are under-represented in HIV studies in sub-
Saharan Africa, despite being at increased risk of HIV infection and contributing to potential onward HIV ...
The governance of reproductive practices, processes, decision-making, experiences, desires, subjectivities, and bodies has received and continues to receive significant attention in feminist efforts to name and resist ...
Mathebula, Pride(University of Pretoria, 2022-11-28)
In South Africa there is a large number of unemployed people, which in no small part is due to the formal sector’s incapability to create more job opportunities. People are vulnerable to poverty, and as a result, the ...
Mangwedi, Portia Aifheli(University of Pretoria, 2022)
This study explored the experiences and investigated the extent to which the Covid-19 pandemic has changed the education and career aspirations of young people in South Africa, with particular focus on Soshanguve, a township ...
What do the protests against the farm laws of the Modi regime tell us about the trajectory of neoliberalisation in India? In this article, we address this question through a comparative analysis of the farm law protests ...
Van Wyk, Duncan Trevor(University of Pretoria, 2022)
When the World Health Organisation (WHO) first declared the Covid-19 crisis a global pandemic, an unprecedented experiment in both the management of population groups and crisis situations followed. Within their attempts ...
The Global South has been a historical site for marginality and precarity, challenging the Global North’s theorisations and assumptions of precarity being a uniquely Northern phenomenon. This dissertation focuses on the ...