• Shock and the materialist conception of art: Considerations for a politicised cultural psychology 

  Malherbe, Nick; Malherbe, Nick (Sage, 2024)

  The materialist conception of art understands art in relation to the material conditions within and by which art is produced and consumed. For cultural psychology, the materialist conception of art has been useful for ...
• Sports as placemaking: critical reflections on a community-engaged campaign 

  Malherbe, Nick; Mavundla, Bongani; Freeman, Alex; Seedat, Mohamed; Malherbe, Nick (Routledge, 2024)

  Community-engaged scholarship has largely neglected the potential of sports to construct progressive forms of community and mobilize disparate interests. In this article, we critically reflect on how sports were used ...
• Anti-capitalist subjectivity: considerations of fantasy, (in)action, and solidarity building 

  Malherbe, Nick (Springer, 2024)

  Anti-capitalist subjectivities are produced through politically generative refusals of the divisive, profit-oriented, and manageable subject positions made available by capitalism’s socio-symbolic order. Pushing back ...
• Climate Justice, Capitalism, and the Political Role of the Psychological Professions 

  Oladejo, Abiodun Omotayo; Malherbe, Nick; van Niekerk, Ashley (2024)

  The term Anthropocene (Age of Human) implies that the reduction of carbon emissions is a matter of changing human behaviour. This risks depoliticising the climate emergency. Everyone is not equally responsible for climate ...
• Driver yield and safe child pedestrian crossing behavior promotion by a school traffic warden program at primary school crossings: A cluster- randomized trial 

  Osuret, Jimmy; van Niekerk, Ashley; Kobusingye, Olive; Atuyambe, Lynn; Nankabirwa, Victoria (Taylor & Francis Group, 2024)

  Objective: To determine the effect of a school traffic warden program on increasing driver yield and safe child pedestrian crossing behavior in Kampala, Uganda. Methods: We designed and implemented a school traffic warden ...
• A Collaborative Autoethnographic Exploration of Experiences of Research Psychology Interns 

  Mokobedi, Tshifhiwa; Harris, Simone ; Henning , Tiffany (Unisa Press, 2024)

  Navigating the art of theory and practice as three African female research psychology interns in South Africa, we worked in the areas of violence, injury and non-natural deaths which continue to plague the country, including ...
• Children’s rights: The need for care, safety and protection 

  Omarjee, Nadira; Taliep, Naiema; Morkel, Jade; James, Seneca; Henning , Tiffany (Sabinet, 2023)

  This paper aims to highlight the push factors leading to children’s vulnerabilities especially in historically impoverished communities in post-apartheid South Africa (SA). These push factors are hangovers that Black1 children ...
• Toward a decolonial Africa-centering ecological and social psychology 

  Suffla, Shahnaaz; Ratele, Kopano; Adams, Glenn; Reddy, Geetha; Malherbe, Nick (Elsevier B.V, 2023)

  As collaborators on projects with epistemic foundations in the diverse everyday realities of different African settings, we respect and endorse the goal of the special issue (SI) to expand “psychological science to include ...
• Mapping the perception of urban safety,space and livelihood of girl street children in Yogyakarta, Indonesia 

  Diponegoro, Ahmed; Hayati, Elli Nur; Pranungsari, Dessy; Ismail, Ghouwa; Taliep, Naiema; Diponegoro (Unisa Press, 2023)

  Street children remain a social phenomenon in many low- and middle-income countries in which they experience alienation, discrimination, and social and spatial exclusion. The aim of this study was to identify and understand ...
• Child pedestrian crossing behaviour and associated risk factors in school zones: a video-based observational study in Kampala, Uganda 

  Nankabirwa, Victoria; Osuret, Jimmy; Van Niekerk, Ashley; Kobusingye, Olive; Atuyambe, Lynn; Nankabirwa, Victoria (BMJ Journals, 2023)

  Background Pedestrian crashes, often occurring while road crossing and associated with crossing behaviour, make up 34.8% of road casualties in Uganda. This study determined crossing behaviour and associated factors among ...
• A qualitative exploration of forensic pathology service staff perceptions of the implementation barriers and facilitators of manual- and electronic injury mortality surveillance system methods in South Africa 

  Nabi, Zayaan; Arendse, Najuwa; van Niekerk, Ashley (BMC Public Health, 2023)

  Background Injury mortality surveillance systems are critical to monitor changes in a population’s injury outcomes so that relevant injury prevention responses may be adopted. This is particularly the case in South Africa, ...
• Critical psychosocial interventions: A scoping review 

  DUMANI, NOXOLO; Morkel, Jade; Malherbe, Nick; Cornell, Josephine; Suffla, Shahnaaz (2023)

  Critical psychosocial interventions aim to improve and maintain well-being by addressing the individual and the social as a single psychosocial entity. Critical psychosocial interventions can assist in developing a holistic ...
• A phenomenological study on the experiences of parents of substance users from resource-constrained contexts in the Western Cape, South Africa 

  James, Seneca; Isaacs, Serena (2023)

  Adolescent substance use continues to remain a significant problem, especially in low-income communities in South Africa. This phenomenon not only affects individuals and society, but also the parents of the user. Parents ...
• Psychology and the question of radical democracy 

  Malherbe, Nick (2023)

  Throughout its history, capitalism has undertaken its extractive, imperial, and expropriative operations under the sign of democracy. Psychology has played a part in the ideological consolidation of capitalist democracy, ...
• A Psychoanalytic Case for Anti-capitalism as an Organisational Form 

  Malherbe, Nick (Sage, 2023)

  For many, anti-capitalism signifies too much and thus lacks the political conviction needed to inform left-wing strategy and tactics. What remains neglected, though, is how anti-capitalism can function as an organisational ...
• Socioeconomic and psychosocial factors associated with solidarity and prosocial behavior during COVID-19 

  Taliep, Naiema; Ismail, Ghouwa; Swart, Lu-Anne; Van Niekerk, Ashley; Seedat, Mohammed (2023)

  The novel virus SARS-CoV-2, the causative agent of the COVID-19 pandemic, has had a profound global impact on health, social wellbeing, and economies, with especially devastating effects on vulnerable populations. A ...
• Social (in)justices during the educator developmental appraisal process: A post-apartheid South African case study 

  Naidoo, Parvathy; Perumalsamy, Venie; Perumal, Juliet; Taliep, Naiema (Sage, 2023)

  Globally, the appraisal of educators remains a contested issue as the process, which aims to provide support and development to educators, is generally considered a punitive measure for educators. Within the South African ...
• What Do Professors Do? Posthumous Letter of Love to Ma 

  Seedat, Mohamed (Sage, 2023)

  Assuming an autoethnographic orientation and a shifting performative lettering style, I write posthumously to my mother in response to her question, what do professors do? The letter is a reflexive contribution to ...
• Socioeconomic and psychosocial factors associated with solidarity and prosocial behavior during COVID-19 

  Van Niekerk, Ashley; Taliep, Naiema; Ismail, Ghouwa; Swart, Lu-Anne; Seedat, Mohamed (2023)

  The novel virus SARS-CoV-2, the causative agent of the COVID-19 pandemic, has had a profound global impact on health, social wellbeing, and economies, with especially devastating effects on vulnerable populations. A ...
• Physicochemical and nanomedicine applications of phyto-reduced erbium oxide (Er2O3) nanoparticles 

  Mohamed, Hamza E. A.; Khalil, Ali T.; Hkiri, Khaoula; Ayaz, Muhammad; Abbasi, Jamil A.; Sadiq, Abdul; Ullah, Farhat; Nawaz, Asif; Ullah, Ikram; Maaza, Malik (2023-02-25)

  Abstract Hyphaene thebaica fruits were used for the fabrication of spherical erbium oxide nanoparticles (HT-Er2O3 NPS) using a one-step simple bioreduction process. XRD pattern revealed a highly crystalline ...

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