In 2012, the institute adopted an innovative research framework consisting of a variety of conceptual strategies and thematic areas. These interpretive schemes take its primary focus to be the study of social justice and reconciliation in the contexts of structural inequality, everyday violence, and disrespect in human relations.

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Research Publications

2017

2017 PUBLICATIONS (Preliminary list)

  1. Books

    Coysh, J (2017). Human Rights Education and the Politics of Knowledge. Taylor & Francis.

     

    Grider, JT (2017). "A foreign voyage": Pacific Maritime Labor Identity, 1840-1890.

     

  2. Journal articles

    Bazirake, J. B. (2017). The Contemporary Global Refugee Crisis. Peace Review29(1), 61-67.

    Bekerman, Z., & Zembylas, M. (2017). Engaging with religious epistemologies in the classroom: Implications for civic education. Research in Comparative and International Education12(1), 127-139.

    Bozalek, V., & Zembylas, M. (2017). Diffraction or reflection? Sketching the contours of two methodologies in educational research. International Journal of Qualitative Studies in Education30(2), 111-127.

    Hatcher, R. (2017). “The Work… of a Thousand Different Hands” Holding a Thousand Cans of Spray Paint and Buckets of Glue. The Public Historian,39(1), 10-34.

    Zembylas, M. (2017). Higher education for the public good in post-conflict societies–curricular justice and pedagogical demands: a response from Cyprus and South Africa. Higher Education Research & Development36(1), 36-42.

    Zembylas, M. (2017). Love as ethico-political practice: Inventing reparative pedagogies of aimance in “disjointed” times. Journal of Curriculum and Pedagogy14(1), 23-38.

    Zembylas, M. (2017). The contribution of the ontological turn in education: Some methodological and political implications. Educational Philosophy and Theory, 1-14.

    Zembylas, M., & Iasonos, S. (2017). Social justice leadership in multicultural schools: The case of an ethnically divided society. International Journal of Leadership in Education20(1), 1-25.

     

  3. Book chapters

Suransky, C. (2017). Humanistic Education for Teaching in a Globalizing World. In Socially Just Pedagogies, Capabilities and Quality in Higher Education (pp. 109-128). Palgrave Macmillan UK.

Tate, S. A. (2017). Skin: Post-feminist Bleaching Culture and the Political Vulnerability of Blackness. In Aesthetic Labour (pp. 199-213). Palgrave Macmillan UK.

Tibbitts, F., & Keet, A. (2017). Curriculum Reform in Transitional Justice Environments: The South African Human Rights Commission, Human Rights Education and the Schooling Sector. In Globalisation, Human Rights Education and Reforms (pp. 87-109). Springer Netherlands.

Zembylas, M., & Bekerman, Z. (2017). Some Reflections on Critical Peace Education. Pedagogy, Politics and Philosophy of Peace: Interrogating Peace and Peacemaking, 147.


2016

1. Andre Keet
Prof Andre Keet Research Publications

 

2. Panday, P (2014). Bangladesh, India, and Fifteen years of peace: Future directions of the Ganges treaty. Asian Survey, 54(4):651-673 

 

3. Suransky, C, and Van der Merwe, JC (2014). Transcending Apartheid in Higher education: Transforming an institutional culture. Race, Ethnicity and Education, DOI: 10.1080/13613324.2014.946487

4. Tate, S (2014). ‘I can’t quite put my finger on it’: Racism’s touch. Ethnicities, 0(0):1-18

5. Van Reenen, D (2014). Is this really what women want? An analysis of Fifty Shades of Grey and modern feminist thought. South African Journal of Philosophy, 33(2):223-233

6. Williams, C (2014). Refugees and social theory: from the politics of ‘bare life’ to refugees as political subjects. Acta Academica Special Issue: Social Theory, Human Rights and Philosophy, 46(4):117-131

7. Zembylas, M, Bozalek, V, and Shefer, T (2014). Tronto’s notion of privileged irresponsibility and the reconceptualisation of care: implications for critical pedagogies of emotion in higher education. Gender and Education, 26(3):200-214

8. Zembylas, M, and Bozalek, V (2014). A critical engagement with the social and political consequences of human rights: the contribution of the affective turn and posthumanism. Acta Academica Special Issue: Social Theory, Human Rights and Philosophy, 46(4):29-47


2015

2015 Books

Kossler, R (2015). Namibia & Germany: Negotiating the past. UNAM Press.

Tate, S & Law, I (2015). Caribbean Racisms. Hampshire: Palgrave Macmillan

Tate, S (2015). Black Women's Bodies and the Nation: Race, Gender and Culture. Hampshire: Palgrave Macmillan.

Williams, C. (2015). National Liberation in Post-Colonial Southern Africa: An Historical Ethnography of SWAPO’s Exile Camps. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Zembylas, M. (2015). Emotion and traumatic conflict: Re-claiming healing in education. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Tate, S. (2015). 'Transracial intimacy and “race” performativity'. In E. Nedekopoulou et al. (ed). Performance and Phenomenology: Traditions and Transformations. London: Routledge.

 

2015 Journal articles

Bazirake, JB & Aderajew, ES. (2015). Volunteer tourism among African Youth: An Analysis of the Prospects, Challenges, and Opportunities. The International Journal of Organisational Diversity, 14:4, 1-10. 

Bazirake, J. B., & Bukuluki, P. (2015). A critical reflection on the conceptual and practical limitations of the responsibility to protect. The International Journal of Human Rights19(8), 1017-1028.

Canlas, M, Argenal, A & Bajaj, M. (2015). Teaching Human Rights from Below: Towards Solidarity, Resistance and Social Justice. Radical teacher, 103, 38-46. DOI: 10.5195/rt.2015.226

Darnell, S.C. and Kaur, T. (2015) ‘C.L.R. James and a place for history in theorising ‘sport for development and peace’’, Int. J. Sport Management and Marketing, Vol. 16, Nos. 1/2, pp.5–17.

Henebury, A. & Alsheh, Y. (2015) Silence after Violence and the Imperative to Speak Out. Acta Academica 47:1, 1-17.

Henebury, A. (2015). ‘Das Böse muss raus’: Witnessing and Testimony in Günter Grass’sIm Krebsgang. German Life and Letters, 68:1, 88-105.

Keet, A. (2015). It is time: Critical Human Rights in an Age of Counter-hegemonic Distrust. Education as Change, 19:3, 46-64, DOI: 10.1080/16823206.2015.1085621.

Tibbitts, F. (2015). Women’s Human Rights Education in Turkey: Feminist Pedagogy and Trainer’s Engagement in Social  Change.  Journal of Peace Education. (http://www.tandfonline.com/toc/cjpe20/12/2).

Williams, C., & Gordon, R. (2015). “Conclusion: What is telling ‘if telling is all there is?” Acta Academica, 47:1, 266-273.

Zembylas, M & Iasonos, S. (2015). Social justice leadership in multicultural schools: The case of an ethnically divided society. International Journal of Leadership in Education.

Zembylas, M (2015). Exploring the implications of citizenship-as-equality in critical citizenship education. Democracy & Education, 23(1), 1-6.

 

Zembylas, M. (2015). Rethinking race and racism as technologies of affect: theorizing the implications for anti-racist politics and practice in education. Race. Ethnicity and Education, 18:2, 145-162, DOI: 10.1080/13613324.2014.946492.

 

2015 Book chapters

Keet, A. (2015). Rethinking the ‘social’ in the social justice mandate of social work in post-conflict societies. In Franger, G & Lohrenscheit, C. (eds). Peacebuilding-Gender-Social work. Oldernberg: Paulo Freire Verlag.

Tate, S. (2015). Performativity and “raced” bodies’ in Murji, K. and Solomons, J (eds). Theories of race and ethnicity. Cambridge University Press: Cambridge.

Tate. S  (2015). 'Are we all Creoles? “Sable-Saffron Venus”, Rachel Christie and Aesthetic Creolization'. Tate, S & Gutierrez Rodriguez, E. (eds). (2015).

Zembylas, M., Hattam, R., & Lanas, M. (2015). Towards pedagogies of senseless kindness in critical education. In P. L. Thomas, P. R. Carr, J. Gorlewski, & B. Porfilio (Eds.). Pedagogies of kindness and respect: On the lives and education of children ( pp 293-306). New York: Peter Lang


2014

2014 Journal articles

Keet, A. (2014). Epistemic'othering'and the decolonisation of knowledge.Africa Insight44(1), 23-37.

Keet, A. (2014). Plastic knowledges: Transformations and stagnations in the Humanities. Alternation21(2), 99-121.

Keet, A. (2014). Plasticity, critical hope and the regeneration of human rights education. Discerning critical hope in educational practices, 69-81.

Keet, A. (2014). Refractions: social theory, human rights and philosophy.Acta Academica46(4), 132-158.

Keet, A. (2014). Spectacle and spectators: higher education and the'disappearance'of democracy: Part 1: exploration of the critical relationship between higher education and the development of democracy in South Africa. South African Journal of Higher Education28(3), 849-865.

Pandey, Punam. (2014) "Bangladesh, India, and Fifteen Years of Peace." Asian Survey, 54 (4), 651-673.

Van Reenen, D. (2014). Is this really what women want? An analysis of Fifty Shades of Grey and modern feminist thought. South African Journal of Philosophy33(2), 223-233

 

Williams, C. (2014). Refugees and social theory: from the politics of. Acta Academica46(4), 117-131.

Williams, C. A. (2014). Practicing pan-Africanism: an anthropological perspective on exile-host relations at Kongwa, Tanzania. Anthropology Southern Africa37(3-4), 223-238.

Zembylas, M., & Bozalek, V. (2014). A critical engagement with the social and political consequences of human rights: The contribution of the affective turn and posthumanism. Acta Academica46(4), 29-47.

 

Zembylas, M., Bozalek, V., & Shefer, T. (2014). Tronto's notion of privileged irresponsibility and the reconceptualisation of care: implications for critical pedagogies of emotion in higher education. Gender and Education26(3), 200-214.

2013


2013 Journal articles

Van der Westhuizen, C (2013). Still Pink and Pale:  Postcolonial Subjectivities at the Intersections of Femininity, Whiteness, Middle-Classness and Heterosexuality in South Africa. In Violent and Vulnerable performances:  Challenging the Gender Boundaries of Masculinities and Femininities

2012

2012 Journal articles

Keet, A., & Carolissen, R. (2012). Rethinking citizenship and social justice in education. Perspectives in Education30(4), I-II.

M. Blaser, T., & Van der Westhuizen, C. (2012). Introduction: the paradox of post-apartheid ‘Afrikaner’identity: deployments of ethnicity and neo-liberalism. African Studies, 71(3), 380-390.

2012 Book chpaters

Keet, A. (2012). Discourse, betrayal, critique. in C. Roux (ed.), Safe Spaces:  Human Rights Education in Diverse Contexts, Netherlands, Rotterdam:  Sense Publishers. (pp. 7-27).

 

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