State Violence
Supervisor: Prof Karl van Holdt (SWOP)
Nomaqhawe Molife
MA student: “The memory of violence and the violence of memory: A case study of Gukurahundi in Zimbabwe”
Namhla Ngqwala
MA student: “Post-apartheid political killings: A case study of uMzimkhulu, KwaZulu Natal”
Socio-Economic Transformations and Violence
Supervisor: Dr Dineo Skosana (SWOP)
Lisa Seftel
MA student: “Violence, continuity and change in the South African minibus taxi industry”
Tilda Nkomo
MA student: “Violence and the artisanal mining industry in Zimbabwe”
Violence and Collective Action
Supervisor: Prof Karl van Holdt (SWOP)
Baleni Sibanda
PhD student: “Violence and its interaction with social cleavages in the 2015/16 Fees Must Fall movement: A case study of Wits”
Alice Mushagalusa
PhD student: “Wartime rape, gender and militarism in the DRC”
Daniel Nkhata
MA student: “Protesting unemployment and precarity? Mapping the community perspectives on bloodsucker violence in Mulanje district, Malawi”
Kefuoe Maotoane
MA student: “Violence and protest: A historical analysis of ‘violence’ and community protests in Bethanie, c. 1860 to 2018”
Communities and Violence
Supervisor:
Alda Bester
MA student: “The attraction, pleasure and quality of lolly lounges in Ennerdale, Johannesburg in the context of state abandonment and concatenated violence”
Lesiba Phaladira
MA student: “Kasi’s crepuscular rails: Revisiting narrative experiences of istimela in the Pretoria-Witwatersrand-Vereeniging area”
Interpersonal Violence
Supervisor: Prof Brett Bowman (Psychology)
Nqobile Shezi
MA student: Contested notions of empowerment for survivors of gender-based violence?
Interactional Studies of Violence
Supervisor: Prof Brett Bowman (Psychology)
Embodied Enactments, Affective-Discursive Practices, and Violence
Supervisor: Prof Garth Stevens (Psychology)
Dylan Kukard
PhD student: Trans(gender), violence and the clinic: Narratives of medical transition in South Africa
Thenjiwe Mswane
PhD student: Exploring the translations, mimicking, acceptance, and appropriation of violent masculinities to ‘Queering’ in the Johannesburg migrant city
Alda Bester
MA student: The attraction, pleasure and quality of lolly lounges in Ennerdale, Johannesburg in the context of state abandonment and concatenated violence
Alice Mushagalusa
PhD student: Wartime rape, gender and militarism in the DRC
Daniel Nkhata
MA student: Protesting unemployment and precarity? Mapping the community perspectives on bloodsucker violence in Mulanje district, Malawi