• Reflecting on the current scenario and forecasting the future demand for medical doctors in South Africa up to 2030 : towards equal representation of women 

  Tiwari, Ritika; Wildschut‑February, Angelique; Nkonki, Lungiswa; English, Rene; Karangwa, Innocent; Chikte, Usuf (BMC, 2021-03-02)

  BACKGROUND : Increasing feminization of medical professions is well-acknowledged. However, this does not always equate to equitable representation of women within medicine, regarding their socio-demographic indicators, ...
• Standing out and blending in : contact-based research, ethics, and positionality 

  Holmes, Carolyn E. (Cambridge University Press, 2021-07)

  This article explores the ethical difficulties that arise because of the interaction between fieldwork practitioners and their sites, in terms of the positionality of the researcher. What are the ethics of blending in or ...
• Understanding the violation of directive anti-abortion counselling [and cisnormativity] : obstruction to access or reproductive violence? 

  Mavuso, Jabulile Mary-Jane Jace (Taylor and Francis, 2021)

  The Choice on Termination of Pregnancy Act stipulates that abortion counselling should be non-directive (and voluntary) and makes it a criminal offence to obstruct access to legal services. Thus, there is scope for directive ...
• “I see myself really as a public health activist” : a critical analysis of young people’s voices in the National Health Insurance policy submissions 

  Mpanza, Naledi (Routledge, 2021)

  Youth engagement in public policy is a widely trumpeted notion supported by participatory democracy as espoused in various legislative and policy instruments. However, the interventions associated with this commitment do ...
• Trumpism, Zumaism, and the fascist potential of authoritarian populism 

  Hyslop, Jonathan (Routledge, 2020)

  The similarities between Donald Trump and Jacob Zuma, both authoritarian populist leaders, are striking in that they come from differing political trajectories: respectively, from deep reactionary currents and from a radical ...
• Thoughts from the epi(Centre) : interview with Mary Crewe 

  Reddy, Vasu; Crewe, Mary (Routledge, 2020)

  This interview engages Mary Crewe, founding Director of the Centre for the Study of AIDS, now known as the Centre for Sexualities, AIDS and Gender, at the University of Pretoria, by tapping into her archive, representing ...
• Gendered and feminist inequalities : a review and framing notes 

  Reddy, Vasu; Zondi, Nompumelelo Bernadette; Mkhize, Gabi (Routledge, 2020)

  This article provides a brief review and mapping of the critical field of inequality studies in both general and gender-feminist-specific terms. The article approaches the topic by interrogating the meanings associated ...
• Methodologies of voice : towards posthuman voice analytics 

  Chadwick, Rachelle Joy (Elsevier, 2020-11)

  This paper rethinks the concept of voice in ways that resist normative humanist assumptions and explores the possibilities of an alternative posthuman ontologics of voice for qualitative praxis. I sketch the contours of ...
• The relationship between social welfare policy and multidimensional well-being : an analysis using the South African Child Support Grant 

  Cooper, Adam; Mokomane, Zitha; Wilson Fadiji, Angelina (Public Affairs Research Institute, 2020)

  Socio-historical context and ideology are often overlooked in analyses of how social welfare policy is used to promote well-being. This paper uses the South African Child Support Grant (CSG) to illuminate how a policy may ...
• India’s pandemic : spectacle, social murder and authoritarian politics in a lockdown nation 

  Nilsen, Alf Gunvald (Routledge, 2021)

  This article maps and analyses the trajectory of India’s Covid-19 pandemic from its onset in early 2020 until the outbreak of the country’s devastating second wave a little over a year later. I begin with a critique of the ...
• Young boys at play? Gender relations and township primary school learners’ construction of masculinities in South Africa 

  Chimanzi, Luckmore (University of Pretoria, 2021)

  This study explores the social construction of masculinity among young boys and its impact on gender relations at two township primary schools in South Africa. Drawing from the conceptual ideas of Critical Studies on Men ...
• Cross-border care practices : experiences of Zimbabwean migrant women engaged in care work in households in South Africa 

  Baison, Precious (University of Pretoria, 2021)

  The aim of this study is to explore the cross-border migration of Zimbabwean women who undertake various types of care work within the domestic sector in South Africa. The study seeks to understand the female labour migration ...
• The emergence of Ina-ethe migration : Mpondo men and continued migrant labour post-apartheid 

  Nomvete, Sandla (University of Pretoria, 2021)

  This thesis contributes to an understanding of the continued reliance on mining migrant labour. It explores why men from Mpondoland in Flagstaff and Lusikisiki in the Eastern Cape Province continue to leave their homes to ...
• Impact of funding on academic performance : an exploration of two South African universities 

  Wildschut, Angelique; Megbowon, Ebenezer; Miselo, Amanda (University of KwaZulu-Natal, School of Education and Development, 2020)

  Empirical evidence on the relationship between student funding and academic performance is unclear. Some studies have found a positive relationship, some have suggested a negative one, while others maintain that there is ...
• Give James Ferguson a fish 

  Nilsen, Alf Gunvald (Wiley, 2021-01)

  When James Ferguson's Give a Man a Fish was published in 2015, it seemed to many that the anthropologist was continuing his trailblazing work in critical development research and pioneering a new imaginary for a progressive ...
• Negotiating masculinity : experiences of black gay men 

  Matlebyane, Keketso (Routledge, 2020)

  Sexual orientation continues to be considered a taboo subject (Judge et al, 2008) and when it is discussed, engagements are often fuelled by unsettling stereotypes used to justify discrimination against sexual minority ...
• When the personal remains personal. Intimate partner violence in lesbian relationships 

  Tallis, V.A. (Vicci); Jean-Pierre, Tracy; Madi, Thuli (Routledge, 2020)

  The past couple of years have seen a groundswell of women’s voices speaking out about gender-based violence (GBV). However, even in the current climate of raising issues about GBV, including in the global #MeToo movement, ...
• Enkele sosiologiese aspekte van die vryetydsbesteding van manlike kleurlinge 

  Botha, Adam Johannes Jacobus (University of Pretoria, 1967)

  No abstract available
• Conditions for a Successful/Unsuccessful Reintegration Process back to High School : Former Adolescent Mothers’ Recollections/Reflections. 

  Mokoena, Onthatile Mmathabo (University of Pretoria, 2020)

  The following study explores the conditions under which former adolescent mothers were successfully or unsuccessfully reintegrated back into high school before and after giving birth. 12 semi-structured, in-depth, interviews ...
• Rethinking intern labour in the context of a precarious economic environment : a case of students of higher learning institutions in Zimbabwe 

  Maunganidze, Farai; Zvobgo, V.; Mupani, H. (Prof. Ansie Lessing, 2019)

  The study has been necessitated by a dearth in empirical research on experiences of interns in economically challenged economies, particularly in the Global South. The study aimed at investigating challenges of interns ...

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