Institute for Social and Health Sciences (ISHS): Recent submissions

  • Childhood Burn Injury : A Matter for Hind Swaraj? 
    van Niekerk, Ashley (Sage, 2010)
    This article describes childhood burn injury as a barometer of social inequalities, due to class or gender. Although the issue is not explicitly located within the Hind Swaraj scholarship, the occurrence of burns provides ...
  • 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 ...
  • Urban and rural differences in child injury deaths in 
    Swart, Lu-Anne; Laher, Hawabibi; Seedat, Mohamed; Gantchev, G (UNISA-MRC, 2012-12)
    Injury, a major cause of morbidity and mortality for children worldwide, is concentrated in low- to middle-income countries (LMICs). Despite the growing rate of childhood injury in LMICs, effective prevention and control ...
  • Sustainable safety volunteerism in the Strand, Western Cape: volunteer identity motivation and socio-organisational experiences 
    Bulbulia, Abdulsamed; van Niekerk, Ashley (UNISA-MRC, 2012-12)
    There is a growing recognition of the relevance and even centrality of volunteerism to adequate collective responses to poverty, housing and the promotion of human rights and, more recently, safety. Volunteerism by members ...
  • A critical review of child maltreatment indices: psychometric properties and application in the South African context 
    Ritacco, Guillermina; Suffla, Shahnaaz (UNISA-MRC, 2012-12)
    The public and academic focus on child maltreatment and neglect and their prevention has spawned a range of surveillance instruments and mechanisms intended to identify child maltreatment and measure its magnitude. While ...
  • Community Centred Learning: A Pathway to Community Engagement 
    Phiri, Lebogang; Hendricks, Natasha; Seedat, Mohamed (Journal of Psychology in Africa, 2012-12)
    We report on the experiences of participants on a course which represented a pathway to community engagement. The 76 participants (20 males, 46 females), from two low-income South African communities, were part of a ...
  • Meta-stereotypes: Intergroup anxiety in interracial 
    Laher, Hawabibi; Finchilescu, Gillian (2010)
    Previous research postulates that meta-stereotypes (i.e., one’s own perceptions of another group’s stereotypes of the group that one belongs to) affect interracial interaction and causes intergroup anxiety. The present ...
  • Watch your man: Young black males at risk of 
    Ratele, Kopano (Crime Quarterly, 2010)
    This article will argue that masculine domination is a crucial factor in black male homicidal victimisation in South Africa, but that this is not always appreciated. Under apartheid it was black men who were most likely ...
  • 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 ...
  • Community Engagement as Liberal Performance, as Critical Intellectualism 
    Seedat, Mohamed (Journal of Psychology in Africa, 2012-12)
    This article aims to illustrate that engagement is a dynamic and evolutionary process, moulded by contesting ideological, social actor and contextual forces. For purposes of illustration, I draw on a university-affiliat ...
  • Evaluating the construct validity of the KIDSCREEN-52 Quality 
    Taliep, Naiema; Florence, Maria (Psychological Society of South Africa, 2012)
    The absence of a suitable measure to assess the health-related quality of life (HRQoL) of children and adolescents in South Africa, led to the use of the KIDSCREEN-52 questionnaire, which was developed and standardised ...
  • 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 ...
  • Childhood unintentional injuries: the perceived impact of the environment, lack of supervision and child characteristics 
    Munro, Salla; van Niekerk, Ashley; Seedat, Mohamed (Blackwell, 2006)
    Background Investigations into the context and causation of injury, including injury risks, are an essential part of the injury prevention knowledge base. Caregiver perceptions of childhood injury risks may assist in ...
  • Child maltreatment prevention through positive parenting practices 
    Ismail, Ghouwa; Taliep, Naiema; Suffla, Shahnaaz (MRC-UNISA, 2012-01)
    Child maltreatment is a global problem with serious consequences. It affects the entire community as it does not only occur within the family context, but spills over into the community and broader society. Child ...
  • 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 ...
  • 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 ...
  • 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 ...
  • Adolescent homicide victimisation in Johannesburg, South Africa 
    Swart, Lu-Anne; Seedat, Mohamed; Vellema, Jeanine (MRC-UNISA, 2009)
    In South Africa there has been growing national concern about the high levels of interpersonal violence especially among young people. Several incidents of school homicides in particular made newspaper headlines during ...
  • INTIMATE PARTNER VIOLENCE 
    Lau, Ursula (MRC-UNISA, 2009-06)
    Intimate partner violence is abuse that takes places between individuals in an intimate relationship. Intimate partners may include boyfriends, girlfriends, and current and former spouses. The abuse can take various ...
  • The identification of ‘at-risk’ groups for transport-related 
    Laher, Hawabibi; Swart, Lu-Anne; Seedat, Mohamed; Mendes Novelo, Safy (MRC-UNISA, 2009)
    Road traffic fatalities as a leading cause of non-natural deaths, pose an enormous threat to the public health care sector globally (Harruff, 1998; Forjuoh, 2003; Olukoga, 2003; Santamarina-Rubio, Perez, Ricart, Arroyo, ...

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