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Browsing Research Outputs (ISHS) by Author "Ratele, Kopano"

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  • African (situated) psychologies of boys, men and masculinities 
    Ratele, Kopano (2017)
    How might psychology less alienatingly study African men and boys? What potential contribution, in other words, might a situated psychology make towards understanding men and boys? Urged by these questions, and ...
  • Analysing males in Africa : certain useful elements in considering ruling masculinities 
    Ratele, Kopano (Brill, 2008)
    Th is article examines the questions why and how African males have been analysed, informed by the view that across several societies in Africa undeclared yet public gender wars of words and deeds go on daily, and may ...
  • “Because they are me”: Dress and the making of gender 
    Shefer, Tamara; Ratele, Kopano; Clowes, Lindsay (2018)
    Young people in contemporary South Africa inhabit a multiplicity of diverse, often contradictory, economic and socio-cultural contexts. These contexts offer a range of possibilities and opportunities for the affirmation ...
  • A Decolonial Africa(n)-Centered Psychology of Antiracism 
    Malherbe, Nick; Ratele, Kopano; Adams, Glenn; Reddy, Geetha; Suffla, Shahnaaz (Sage Publishing, 2021-06-26)
    Coloniality represents the contemporary patterns of power and domination that emerged in the late 15th century during the so-called classic era of colonialism. Although much of psychology and psychological thought has ...
  • Elaborations on (a) Decolonising Africa(n)-centred Feminist Psychology 
    Ratele, Kopano; Malherbe, Nick; Cornell, Josephine; Day, Sarah; Helman, Rebecca; Makama, Refiloe; Titi, Neziswa; Suffla, Shahnaaz; Dlamini, Sipho (2020)
    n a previous article we sought to clear up some of the conceptual confusion on African psychology whilst simultaneously engaging with what it entails to do a decolonising African psychology. We dealt with questions ...
  • Examining the Dynamics of Belonging and Alienation in Higher Education Through Photovoice 
    Cornell, Josephine; Kessi, Shose; Ratele, Kopano (Sage Publishing, 2022-03-14)
    The higher education system globally is inherently inequitable. Discriminatory practices and oppressive power dynamics are particularly prevalent in the South African higher education landscape, which is characterized by ...
  • Fanon’s Decolonial Transcendence of Psychoanalysis 
    Maldonado-Torres, Nelson; Fanon Mendes France, Mireille; Suffla, Shahnaaz; Seedat, Mohamed; Ratele, Kopano (Routledge Taylor & Francis Group, 2021-12-17)
    Coloniality continues to invade the psychomaterial lives of the condemned. Invoking psychoanalysis and phenomenology to engage with modern psychopathologies and race, gender, and sexuality, Fanon developed seminal ideas ...
  • Fire-arm Related Homicides in Gauteng 
    Ratele, Kopano; Seedat, Mohamed; van Niekerk, Ashley; Pretorius, Karin; Suffla, Shahnaaz (MRC-UNISA, 2013-02)
    This fact sheet reports on firearm-related homicide, recorded by the National Injury Mortality Surveillance System (NIMSS), at nine forensic pathology services in the province of Gauteng for 2011, the latest year for ...
  • Intimate relationships and Suicidal Behaviour of Men in Bangladesh 
    Khan, Anisur; Arendse, Najuwa; Ratele, Kopano (Routledge Taylor & Francis Group, 2021-03-03)
    Suicidal behaviour (e.g., suicide and suicide attempt) is a multifaceted phenomenon which often draws on several social and psychological contexts. This research examines how men’s suicides and attempted suicides are ...
  • Introduction to the Special Issue: In Dialogue with Fanonian and Southern Thought 
    Ratele, Kopano; Suffla, Shahnaaz; Seedat, Mohamed; Fanon Mendes France, Mireille; Maldonado-Torres, Nelson (Routledge Taylor & Francis Group, 2021-12-17)
    Against the backdrop of the global pandemic, which has deepened existing global struggles against coloniality and racist, heteropatriarchal, and capitalist social formations, this special issue focuses on Fanon, Southern ...
  • Looks: Subjectivity as commodity 
    Ratele, Kopano (Routledge, 2011-12-21)
    Looking at, seeing, being looked at or being seen by certain people can afford libidinal excitation,1 but it also can be a source of psychical2 displeasure. Reading a series of events, texts, and images, this Article ...
  • Masculinities without Tradition 
    Ratele, Kopano (Routledge, 2013-02-04)
    The fear of being perceived as gay, as not a real man, keeps men exaggerating all the traditional rules of masculinity, including sexual predation with women’. This view on men’s sexual (Following feminists such as ...
  • Masculinity and Suicide in Bangladesh 
    Khan, Anisur; Ratele, Kopano; Helman, Rebecca; Dlamini, Sipho; Makama, Refiloe (Sage Publishing, 2020-10-20)
    Suicide is a serious but under-researched public health problem in Bangladesh. In light of this, we sought to explore the association between masculinities and suicide. We interviewed 20 family members/friends of men who ...
  • Masculinity and Suicide in Bangladesh 
    Khan, Anisur Rahman; Ratele, Kopano; Helman, Rebecca; Dlamini, Sipho; Makama, Refiloe (2020)
    Suicide is a serious but under-researched public health problem in Bangladesh. In light of this, we sought to explore the association between masculinities and suicide. We interviewed 20 family members/friends of men who ...
  • The Men and the Boys, Twenty Years On Revisiting Raewyn Connell’s Pivotal Text 
    Cann, Victoria; Madrid, Sebastián; Ratele, Kopano; Tarrant, Anna; Ward, Michael R.M; Connell, Raewyn (2020)
  • Men’s Reflections on Postsuicide Attempt Episode in Bangladesh 
    Khan, Anisur; Ratele, Kopano; Arendse, Najuwa (Sage Publishing, 2020-02-12)
    This is the first ever research in Bangladesh that provides understanding about men’s postsuicide attempt reflections from a district called Jhenaidah which is assumed to be a high suicide-prone area in the country. Employing ...
  • Ndabethwa lilitye: Assumption, 
    Ratele, Kopano; Mpolweni-Zantsi, Nosisi; Krog, Antjie (2007)
    The second week of the first round of hearings of the South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission took place in Cape Town. On 2 April 1996 four mothers testified that Security Forces killed their sons during an ...
  • Racist sexualisation and sexualised 
    Shefer, Tamara; Ratele, Kopano (Macmillan, 2011)
    In an effort to disentangle the threads of the complex, interwoven fabric of apartheid sexualities, this paper draws on narratives of the Apartheid Archive Project to explore the sexualizing force of racism and the ...
  • RISK AND PROTECTIVE 
    Clowes, Lindsay; Lazarus, Sandy; Ratele, Kopano (UNISA-MRC, 2010)
    This article reports on a study that sought to elicit the views of male university students on risk and protective factors to male interpersonal violence. The participants were 116 third-year students who participated ...
  • The second week of the first round of hearings of the South African Truth and 
    Ratele, Kopano; Suffla, Shahnaaz (HSRC, 2011)
    The second week of the first round of hearings of the South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission took place in Cape Town. On 2 April 1996 four mothers testified that Security Forces killed their sons during an ...

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