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Institute for Social and Health Sciences

@ISHS_UNISA

An Africa-centred, internationalist home to community-engaged scholars and activists.

 South Africa
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Joined March 2020
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Sabelo J. Ndlovu-Ga@sjndlovugatshenNov 2
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Epistemic Freedom in Africa: Deprovincialization and Decolonization

Epistemic Freedom in Africa: Deprovincialization and Decolonization

Epistemic Freedom in Africa is about the struggle for African people to think, theorize, interpret the world, and write from where they are located, unencumbered by Eurocentrism. The imperial denial...

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To add to your reading list๐Ÿ“Œ ๐‘๐จ๐š๐๐ฌ๐ข๐๐ž ๐ซ๐ž๐Ÿ๐ฎ๐ฌ๐š๐ฅ๐ฌ: ๐‘๐ž๐ฌ๐ข๐ฌ๐ญ๐ข๐ง๐  ๐ข๐ง๐Ÿ๐ซ๐š๐ฌ๐ญ๐ซ๐ฎ๐œ๐ญ๐ฎ๐ซ๐š๐ฅ ๐ฏ๐ข๐จ๐ฅ๐ž๐ง๐œ๐ž ๐ข๐ง ๐ญ๐ก๐ž ๐ฌ๐จ๐ฎ๐ญ๐ก ๐จ๐Ÿ ๐‰๐จ๐ก๐š๐ง๐ง๐ž๐ฌ๐›๐ฎ๐ซ๐  By Nick Malherbe & Hugo ka Canham tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.โ€ฆ
Roadside refusals: resisting infrastructural violence in the south of Johannesburg

Roadside refusals: resisting infrastructural violence in the south of Johannesburg

In this paper, we offer an analysis of what we are calling โ€œroadside refusalsโ€ โ€“ coordinated and quotidian resistance efforts that take place alongside highways and are directed against the racial ...

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EVENT ALERT! instagram.com/p/DfDCAGcGasM/โ€ฆ
The Childhood Place Pedagogy Lab ๐ŸŒฑ (@childplacepedagogylab) โ€ข Instagram photos and videos

The Childhood Place Pedagogy Lab ๐ŸŒฑ (@childplacepedagogylab) โ€ข Instagram photos and videos

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The Black Ecologies in Education Collaboratory is made up of researchers, educators, artists, and community practitioners interested in thinking with Black ecological knowledges and practices in South African education. Stay tuned for more about this event!
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Registration still open, with limited spaces remaining. Click on the link to to go regration link.
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PsySSA Decolonising Psychology Division@PsySSADPDOct 13
#Repost November 6th, at Iziko Museum, Cape Town. What might become possible when we think about education through Black ecologies? Join us for a public gathering with researchers, educators, artists, and community organizers. tinyurl.com/3v7afsvb.
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@suntoshpillayOct 13
Psychologists meet in Ekurhuleni this week for our annual Congress. GBVF features strongly on the agenda. I've written a summary of the very interesting research that will be presented to support the national conversation on ending GBVF. #EndGBVF mg.co.za/thought-leader/2026โ€ฆ
Psychology congress to tackle GBVF | Mail & Guardian

Psychology congress to tackle GBVF | Mail & Guardian

As outrage over femicide mounts, the Psychological Society of South Africa convenes in Ekurhuleni to explore evidence-based, psychological approaches toโ€ฆ

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To add to your reading list๐Ÿ“Œ ๐‘๐ž๐ฌ๐ฉ๐š๐ญ๐ข๐š๐ฅ๐ข๐ฌ๐ข๐ง๐  ๐ญ๐ก๐ž ๐‚๐š๐ฉ๐ž ๐จ๐œ๐ž๐š๐ง ๐ญ๐ก๐ซ๐จ๐ฎ๐ ๐ก ๐ฉ๐ฅ๐š๐ง๐ž๐ญ๐š๐ซ๐ฒ ๐š๐ญ๐ญ๐ž๐ง๐๐ข๐ง๐  By Hugo ka Canham., Nick Malherbe., & Xolisa Gwadiso tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.โ€ฆ

Respatialising the Cape ocean through planetary attending

Pivoting around the oceanic environment of the Western Cape in South Africa, this paper surfaces black geographies of ocean often submerged from view by colonial spatialities and formations. This i...

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Sabelo J. Ndlovu-Ga@sjndlovugatshenSep 25
rwrn.ca/who-examines-the-exaโ€ฆ
Who Examines the External Examiner? Decolonizing Knowledge

Who Examines the External Examiner? Decolonizing Knowledge

Who examines those entrusted with examining knowledge? Sabelo J. Ndlovu-Gatsheni interrogates the coloniality of knowledge and the authority of external examiners.

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To add to your reading list๐Ÿ“Œ ๐€๐ญ๐ญ๐ฎ๐ง๐ข๐ง๐  ๐‹๐ข๐›๐ž๐ซ๐š๐ญ๐ข๐จ๐ง ๐๐ฌ๐ฒ๐œ๐ก๐จ๐ฅ๐จ๐ ๐ฒ ๐ญ๐จ ๐ƒ๐ž๐œ๐จ๐ฅ๐จ๐ง๐ข๐š๐ฅ ๐‘๐ž๐Ÿ๐ฎ๐ฌ๐š๐ฅ By Nick Malherbe., Shahnaaz Suffla., and Mohamed Seedat journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.โ€ฆ

Attuning Liberation Psychology to Decolonial Refusal - Nick Malherbe, Shahnaaz Suffla, Mohamed...

Refusal represents a generative mode of negation, one that not only resists but also opens up possibilities for alternative ways of thinking, being and doing. L...

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Don't forget to register for the public lecture on ๐—•๐—˜๐—ฌ๐—ข๐—ก๐—— ๐—ง๐—›๐—˜ ๐—ง๐—ข๐—ฅ๐—ง๐—จ๐—ฅ๐—˜ ๐—–๐—›๐—”๐— ๐—•๐—˜๐—ฅ: ๐—–๐—”๐—ฅ๐—ง๐—ข๐—š๐—ฅ๐—”๐—ฃ๐—›๐—œ๐—˜๐—ฆ ๐—ข๐—™ ๐—š๐—˜๐—ก๐—ข๐—–๐—œ๐——๐—”๐—Ÿ ๐—ง๐—˜๐—ฅ๐—ฅ๐—ข๐—ฅ with Prof Nadera Shalhoub-Kevorkian ๐Ÿ“ฉ RSVP by ๐Ÿฎ๐Ÿญ ๐—ฆ๐—ฒ๐—ฝ๐˜๐—ฒ๐—บ๐—ฏ๐—ฒ๐—ฟ to Ndimakazi Khumalo at dwayin@unisa.ac.za
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BEYOND THE TORTURE CHAMBER: CARTOGRAPHIES OF GENOCIDAL TERROR with Prof Nadera Shalhoub-Kevorkian with Prof Nadera Shalhoub-Kevorkian. Discussants: Prof Ashraf Kagee & Dr Thandi Gamedze. ๐Ÿ“… 28 September 2026 ๐Ÿ•ง 12h30โ€“14h30
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To add to your reading list๐Ÿ“Œ ๐“๐ก๐ž ๐š๐Ÿ๐Ÿ๐ž๐œ๐ญ๐ข๐ฏ๐ž ๐œ๐ก๐š๐ซ๐ ๐ž ๐จ๐Ÿ ๐ญ๐ก๐ž ๐ƒ๐จ๐›๐ฌ๐จ๐ง๐ฏ๐ข๐ฅ๐ฅ๐ž ๐ง๐š๐ค๐ž๐ ๐›๐จ๐๐ฒ ๐ฉ๐ซ๐จ๐ญ๐ž๐ฌ๐ญ ๐ญ๐ก๐ซ๐ž๐ž ๐๐ž๐œ๐š๐๐ž๐ฌ ๐ฅ๐š๐ญ๐ž๐ซ By Mpho Mathebula & Hugo ka Canham sciencedirect.com/science/arโ€ฆ
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BEYOND THE TORTURE CHAMBER: CARTOGRAPHIES OF GENOCIDAL TERROR with Prof Nadera Shalhoub-Kevorkian with Prof Nadera Shalhoub-Kevorkian. Discussants: Prof Ashraf Kagee & Dr Thandi Gamedze. ๐Ÿ“… 28 September 2026 ๐Ÿ•ง 12h30โ€“14h30
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๐Ÿ“ Room 1E, School of Government Building, University of the Western Cape, Bellville ๐Ÿ“ฉ RSVP by ๐Ÿฎ๐Ÿญ ๐—ฆ๐—ฒ๐—ฝ๐˜๐—ฒ๐—บ๐—ฏ๐—ฒ๐—ฟto Ndimakazi Khumalo at dwayin@unisa.ac.za
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๐Ÿ“—COMING SOON ๐๐ฅ๐š๐œ๐ค ๐”๐ง๐๐ž๐ซ๐ญ๐จ๐ฐ By Hugo ka Canham ๐Ÿ“– Published by Duke University Press ๐Ÿ”œ Available December 2026 ๐Ÿ”— dukeupress.edu/black-undertoโ€ฆ
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"Hugo ka Canham listens for what he names the buzz of the undertow, the traces of African ancestors who linger in water, sand, coastal forts, corals, ritual practices, and unruly imaginations along the shore."
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"In tracking these elusive figures, he develops an approach that honors a queer right to opacity, reconstituting the siloed disciplinarity that imagines African studies, Black studies, Queer African studies, and Queer studies as necessarily different."
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PUBLIC LECTURE BEYOND THE TORTURE CHAMBER: CARTOGRAPHIES OF GENOCIDAL TERROR with Prof Nadera Shalhoub-Kevorkian When: 28 Sep 2026 Time: 12h30 โ€“ 14h30 Where: Room 1E, School of Government Building, University of the Western Cape, Bellville
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RSVP: Ndimakazi Khumalo at dwayin@unisa.ac.za
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