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

Responses to Violence