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Prof Nthabiseng Motsemme

Associate Professor
Name: Nthabiseng Motsemme
Department of Sociology听 Staff Members

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About Prof Nthabiseng Motsemme

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Prof Nthabiseng Motsemme is currently an Associate Professor at the 欧美福利100000 of Johannesburg, Sociology Department. She previously served as Academic Director at the National Institute for the Humanities and Social Sciences (NIHSS), and Postgraduate Director at the 欧美福利100000 of KwaZulu-Natal, while also holding research associate positions at the 欧美福利100000 of South Africa and Nelson Mandela 欧美福利100000. Nthabiseng鈥檚 work was celebrated at the African Feminist international conference held in 2018, entitled after her paper: ‘The Mute Always Speak’: (Re) imagining and re-imaging feminist futures; hosted by the Rhodes 欧美福利100000 Department of Literary Studies in English and Department of Fine Arts, which brought together scholars from across the humanities and social science disciplines. Nthabiseng completed her doctoral studies in 2011 and her scholarship focuses mainly on African working-class women鈥檚 experiences, voices, struggles and agencies, and is interdisciplinarity and methodologically reflexive. She is also an editorial board member of the African Identities journal.

Qualifications

  • DLitt et Phil, Sociology, UNISA
  • MA, Culture, Race and Difference, Sussex 欧美福利100000
  • BSocSci. Hons Organisational Psychology, 欧美福利100000 of Cape Town
  • BSocSci. (Organisational Psychology and Economics), 欧美福利100000 of Cape Town

Research Interests

  • African feminist and womanist theories
  • Township women鈥檚 subjectivities, identities and cultures of survival
  • Death and Healing in Black Communities
  • African Truth and Reconciliation Commissions and gendering memories under violent regimes

Selected Publications

Magadla, S., Magoqwana, B and Motsemme, N. (2021): Thirty years of Male Daughters, Female Husbands: Revisiting Ifi Amadiume鈥檚 questions on gender, sex and political economy, Journal of Contemporary African Studies, 1-17.

Motsemme, N. (2007) 鈥淟oving in a time of hopelessness鈥�: On township women鈥檚 subjectivities in a time of HIV/AIDS, in African Identities, 5(1): 61-87. Motsemme, N. (2004) The meanings of silence鈥� in Rhodes Journalism Review, 24

Motsemme, N. (2004) 鈥楾he mute always Speak鈥�: On women鈥檚 silences at the Truth and Reconciliation Commission, Current Sociology, 52(3): 909-932. Motsemme N. (2003) 鈥楧istinguishing Beauty, creating distinctions: the politics and poetics of dress among Black women,鈥� in Agenda, 57:12-18.

Motsemme N. (2003) 鈥楤lack Women鈥檚 Identities鈥�, in K. Ratele and N. Duncan (eds) Social Psychology: Identities and Relationships. Cape Town: UCT Press. Motsemme N. (2002) 鈥楪endered Experiences of Blackness in Post-apartheid South Africa鈥�, in Social Identities, 8(4):647-673.

Motsemme, N. (2002) Y-Freedom. WISER Brief, Newsletter of the Wits Institute for Social and Economic Research Motsemme N. and Ratele K. (2002) Losing life and Remaking Nation at the Reconciliation Commissions in N.

Duncan, P.D. Gqola. M. Hofmeyer, T. Shefer, F. Malungu and M. Mashige (eds) Discourses of Difference and Discourses of Oppression. Cape Town: The Centre for Advanced Study of African Society.