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Kezia Batisai

Prof Kezia Batisai

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Name: Kezia Batisai
Location: C Ring 628A Auckland Park Kingsway Campus
Department of Sociology, Rated Researchers听 Staff Members

Contact Details:
Tel: 011 559 3438

Email:听keziab@uj.ac.za

About Prof Kezia Batisai

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Kezia听Batisai is a Professor of Sociology. Focusing her research gaze on gender, sexuality, land, migration, HIV/AIDS and health policy recommendations,听Kezia鈥檚 work questions the meaning of being different and notions of marginality that expose the politics of nation-building in Africa.听Kezia听has written several journal articles, book chapters, technical reports and opinion pieces that expand the theory of marginality. Beyond the academy,听Kezia听has engaged in action research as a principal researcher for local and international organizations working with those on the margins or peripheries of society, with a specific focus on gender, sexuality, migration, HIV/AIDS and health policy recommendations. She is an active member of the International Sociological Association; South African Association for Gender Studies; South African Sociological Association (convener for Gender Studies working group since 2015); and the Research Network Law, Gender and Sexuality (LEX) International Steering Committee. She also serves听on the editorial board of a new Bristol 欧美福利100000 Press journal,听Gender and Justice; and a member of a newly established Ban Ki-moon Centre鈥檚 expert council named 鈥淓VWA Council鈥� 鈥� Elevating the Voices of Women in Agriculture.

Qualifications

PhD Gender Studies, 欧美福利100000 of Cape Town MSc Sociology and Social Anthropology, 欧美福利100000 of Zimbabwe BSc Hons. in Sociology, 欧美福利100000 of Zimbabwe鈥�

Research interests

  • Gender
  • Sexuality
  • Political change
  • Questions of Being Different and Marginality.鈥嬧�嬧��

Selected publications

Muchemwa, M. &听Batisai, K.听2024. Social Networks and Residential Choice:听 Zimbabwean Migrants鈥� Experiences in Hillbrow, Johannesburg.听Social Sciences and Humanities Open,听10: 101090.听

Ani, J.I., Ajayi-Ojo, V.O. &听Batisai, K.听2024. Financial Scarcity, Psychological Well-Being and Perceptions: An Evaluation of the Nigerian Currency Redesign Policy Outcomes.听BMC Public Health, 24:1164.听

听Zvokuomba, K. &听Batisai, K. 2024. Violence, Patronage Politics and Farm Ownership in the Zimbabwean Land Reform: Land Distributions and Post-Distribution Realities.听Africa Review, 197-221.

听Batisai, K. 2024. Decolonising the Curricula and the Space in Africa: An Interdisciplinary Approach. In S.L., Mudavanhu, S. Mpofu & K. Batisai. (eds.)听Decolonising Media and Communication Studies Education in Sub-Saharan Africa. London: Routledge, 143-159.

听Mudavanhu S.L., Mpofu S. &听Batisai, K.听(eds.) 2024. Connecting the dots: decolonising Communication and Media Studies Teaching and Learning in Sub-Saharan Africa. In S.L., Mudavanhu, S. Mpofu & K. Batisai听(eds.),听Decolonising Media and Communication Studies Education in Sub-Saharan Africa. London: Routledge, 3-19.

听Mudavanhu S.L., Mpofu S. &听Batisai, K.听(eds.) 2024.听Decolonising Media and Communication Studies Education in Sub-Saharan Africa. London: Routledge.

听Ani, J.I.,听Batisai, K.,听Ntoimo, L.F.C, and Isiugo-Abanihe, U.C. 2023. How do Older Adults Perceive and Cope with their Disability? An Interpretive Phenomenological Analysis of a Sub-Saharan African Community.听International Journal of Public Health. 68:1606273. doi: 10.3389/ijph.2023.1606273.

听Chipuriro R.M. &听Batisai, K.听2023. House of Hunger – The Weaponisation and Politicisation of Food (Protests) in South Africa During Covid-19 Pandemic.听Matatu: Journal for African Culture and Society听54: 134鈥�154.

听Mudavanhu, SL. &听Batisai, K. 2023. 鈥淭hey Bring Standards of Academic Excellence Down鈥�: A Critical Analysis of Responses by Social Media Users to Targeted Hiring of Black and Women Faculty Members in South African and Canadian Universities.听Pan-African Conversations: An International Journal, 1(1): 31-56.

听Zvokuomba, K.听 &听Batisai, K. 2023. The Hydrology of Hope in the Semi-arid Region of Southern Zimbabwe: A Feminist Review of Mushandike Small-Scale Irrigation Scheme.听South African Geographical Journal, 105(1): 99-114.

听Batisai, K.,听Makhafola, K.P. and Maoba P. 2022. Rethinking Inclusion in Higher Education 鈥� Lessons for the South African Academic Space.听South African Journal of Higher Education, 36(6): 210鈥�230.

Mandewo J., Rugunanan, P. &听Batisai, K. 2022. The Temporality of Mothering through the Use of ICTs by Zimbabwean Women Informal Cross-Border Traders.听Global Journal of Human Sciences, 22(4): 29鈥�36.

Batisai, K. 2022. Stratified and Violent: Young Women鈥檚 Experiences of Access to Reproductive Health in South Africa. In A. Pande (Ed.), 鈥楥ontrolled Birth – Selective Reproduction鈥�. Manchester: Manchester 欧美福利100000 Press, 156鈥�181.

Batisai, K. 2022. Re-theorising Migration: A South-South Perspective. In P. Rugunanan & N. Xulu-Gama (Eds.), A Southern Approach to Migration Studies: Developing A Sociology of Migration. Springer, 11鈥�24.

Batisai, K. & Chipato, F. 2022. 鈥楧isplacements and Land Conflicts: Implications for Land Tenure Security and Gendered Livelihoods in Zimbabwe.鈥� In G. Mkodzongi (Ed.), Zimbabwe’s Changing Agrarian Sector. London: Routledge.

Zvokuomba, K. & Batisai, K. 2022. ‘Can Women Own Land’? Land Inheritance Convolutions: Evidence from the Zimbabwean Resettlement Areas.鈥� In H. Mupambwa, D. Nciizah, P. Nyambo, B. Muchara and N.N. Gabriel. (Eds.) Food Security for African Smallholder Farmers. Singapore: Springer Nature, 375鈥�388.

Zvokuomba, K. & Batisai, K. 2022. The Hydrology of Hope in the Semi-arid Region of Southern Zimbabwe: A Feminist Review of Mushandike Small-Scale Irrigation Scheme. South African Geographical Journal. https://doi.org/10.1080/03736245.2022.2028668

Batisai, K. & Mudimu, G.T. 2021. Beyond the Land Reform: Revisiting the Politics of Land Recovery among White Commercial Farmers in Zimbabwe. International Journal of Transitional Justice.

Sibanda A. and Batisai K. 2021. The Intersections of Identity, Belonging and Substance Misuse: Struggles of Male Youth in Post-Apartheid South Africa. International Journal of Adolescence and Youth. 26 (1): 143-157.

Batisai, K. 2020. 鈥淯nderstanding Health and Health Systems in Southern Africa.鈥� In. J. Fritz and T. Uys, (Eds.) Clinical Sociology for Southern Africa. Cape Town: Juta Press, 245-269.

Batisai, K. 2020. 鈥淐ulture, Land Rights, and Livelihoods in Rural South Africa – A Gendered Perspective.鈥� In M. Khan & G. Mkodzongi (Eds.), Africa, History and Culture. Iowa: Kendallhunt Publishing Company, 103-119.

Batisai, K. & Dzimiri, P. 2020. 鈥淣ot just a foreigner: 鈥楶rogressive鈥� Self-Representations of African Migrants in Print and Social Media.鈥� In D. Moyo and S. Mpofu, (Eds.) Mediating Xenophobia and Africa. Unpacking Discourses of Migration, Belonging and Othering. Palgrave, 323-340.

Batisai, K. & Manjowo L. 2020. Renegotiating Gender Identities and Sexual Bodies: Zimbabwean Migrant Women鈥檚 Narratives of Everyday Life in South Africa. Gender Questions. 8(1): # 6519 | 23.

Zvokuomba, K. & Batisai, K. 2020. Veracity of Women鈥檚 Land Ownership in the Aftermath of Land Re-distributions in Zimbabwe: The Limits of Western Feminism. Agenda. 34(1): 151-158.

Dzimiri C.T., Dzimiri P. & Batisai, K. 2019. Fighting against HIV and AIDS within a Resource Constrained Rural Setting: A Case Study of the Ruvheneko Programme in Chirumhanzu, Zimbabwe. SAHARA-J: Journal of Social Aspects of HIV/AIDS. 16(1): 25-34.

Batisai, K. 2019. 鈥淏lack and Foreign: Negotiating Being Different in South Africa鈥檚 Academy.鈥� In G.

Khunou, H. Canham, K. Khoza-Shangase & E. Phaswana, (Eds.) Black Academic Voices: The South African Experience. Cape Town: HSRC Press, 226-247.

Chipuriro, R. & Batisai, K. 2018. Unsung Heroines and Violence for the Land: Narratives of Elderly Women Farmers’ Experiences in South Africa and Zimbabwe. Agenda. 32(4): 54-64.

Batisai, K. 2018. “Gendered Nationhood and the Land Question in South Africa 20 Years after Democracy.” In F. Brandt and G. Mkodzongi (Eds.), Land Reform Revisited. Democracy, State Making and Agrarian Transformation in Post-Apartheid South Africa. Brill: Leiden, 78-96.

Batisai, K. 2017. “Mothering beyond National Borders: Trajectories of Zimbabwean Migrant Women in South Africa.” In D. Smith Silva, L. Malik and A. Palko (Eds.), Mothers, Mothering, and Globalization. Demeter Press: Ontario, 226-247. Batisai, K. 2017. Pushing the limits of motherhood: narratives of older women in rural Zimbabwe. African Studies. 76(1): 44-63.

Batisai, K. 2016. Interrogating questions of national belonging, difference and xenophobia in South Africa. Agenda. 30(2): 119-130.

Batisai, K. 2016. Towards an integrated approach to health and medicine in Africa. SAHARA-J: Journal of Social Aspects of HIV/AIDS. 13(1): 113-122.

Batisai, K. 2016. Transnational labour migration, intimacy and relationships: how Zimbabwean women navigate the diaspora. Diaspora Studies. 9(2): 165-178.

Batisai, K. 2016. Celebrating a life well lived: Professor Sam Moyo (23/09/1954-22/11/2015), South African Review of Sociology, 47(2): 119-121.

Batisai, K. 2015. Being gendered in Africa’s flag-democracies: narratives of sexual minorities living in the diaspora. Gender Questions. 3(1): 25-44.

Batisai, K. 2015. The Politics of Control and Ownership over Women’s Bodies: Discourses that Shape Reproductive and Sexual Rights in Zimbabwe. Perspectives: Bodies, Morals and Politics. Reflections on Sexual and Reproductive Rights in Africa. 2:6-11.

Batisai, K. 2014. ‘Policies on abortion: women’s experiences of living through a gendered body in Zimbabwe.’ AG AboutGender, International journal of gender studies. 3(5): 174-192.

Batisai, K. 2013. Body politics: – an illumination of the landscape of sexuality and nationhood? Re-seeing Zimbabwe through elderly women’s representations of their sexual and gendered lives. Cape Town, 欧美福利100000 of Cape Town.

Salo, E. Matshaka, N.S., Mupotsa, D., Baloyi, A., Batisai, K., Jobson, M., Chienga, M., and Roes, A. 2012. Feasibility Study on the (Re) Establishment of Sexual Offences Courts in Africa. Report Prepared for The Ministerial Advisory Task Team for Sexual Offences Courts (MATTSO), by the Institute for Women’s and Gender Studies, 欧美福利100000 Pretoria.

Batisai, K., Tansey, E. and Muteerwa, T.R. et.al. 2010. Regional Assessment on HIV-prevention Needs of Migrants and Mobile Populations in Southern Africa. Pretoria, International Organisation for Migration.

Batisai, K., Tansey, E. and Muteerwa, T.R. 2010. Country Assessment on HIV-prevention Needs of Migrants and Mobile Populations; Lesotho. Pretoria, International Organization for Migration.

Batisai, K., Tansey, E. and Muteerwa, T.R. 2010. Country Assessment on HIV-prevention Needs of Migrants and Mobile Populations; Swaziland.. Pretoria, International Organization for Migration.