Hlengiwe Ndlovu
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 4239271 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Hlengiwe Ndlovu |
| NOMBRES | Hlengiwe |
| APELLIDO | Ndlovu |
| FIRMA | NDLOVU H |
| AFILIACIONES | University of the Witwatersrand |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-7892-4228 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 11 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 7 |
| OBRAS COMO AUTOR | 11 |
| OBRAS COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2013 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 1 |
Postcolonial gender reckonings
This article analyzes the gender order in contemporary South Africa by tracing the political, ideological, and material tensions shaping current struggles over gender justice. We treat gender as a historically situated and relational structure of power, formed through race, class, sexuality, nation, and the coloniality of being and knowing. Although the democratic transition established a strong institutional commitment to equality, structural vi…
Feminist Ethnography, State Fragility and Situated Praxis in Post-apartheid South Africa
This article explores the affective and epistemic demands of ethnographic fieldwork within the uneven terrain of post-apartheid South Africa. Drawing on long-term research in Duncan Village, a historically Black township in the Eastern Cape province, I analyse how the state is encountered through waiting, silence, refusal, and care in struggles over housing, services, and recognition. I argue that these are practices through which residents navig…
Labor of love
Ethnographic studies are practically invasive in nature in that they intrude into people's everyday experiences. It is therefore the duty of a researcher documenting experiences of women to pay attention to these forms of violence and undertake the labor of love that seeks to re‐member women's bodies and their stories in ways that restore their dignity and contribute to healing. African feminists have encouraged us to employ research methods that…
Forgotten Bodies or Silenced Voices? Recasting Women's Voices at the Bantu Square Massacre of East London, 1952
Narratives of political and community struggles often privilege the role of men, painting them as the faces of the struggle. Yet, women have been (and continue to be) active participants who have fought against systems of oppression through active mobilisation and resistance. This article focuses on events on 9 November 1952 at Bantu Square in Duncan Village, East London, when police broke up a meeting and shot and killed hundreds of people, whil…
An Agenda with no gender
The South African opposition political parties went to the 2021 local government elections with one agenda: to push the African National Congress (ANC) – as the majority political party since the dawn of democracy to the opposition bench. This was despite their deep-seated ideological differences that are to date, far from being reconciled. The Democratic Alliance (DA), liberal at core, the Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) adopting the radical lef…
Entangled battlefields
This briefing grapples with questions of precarious citizenship and entangled battlefields of violence and survival for womxn navigating the two pandemics of gender-based violence (GBV) and COVID-19. I map the multi-layered spaces where womxn continue to experience different forms of violence while battling to perform draining roles and stay safe from COVID-19. I identify the home as an entangled space of precariousness experienced by womxn amids…
Bodies that (do not) matter? Black Sunday and narratives of the death of Sister Aidan Quinlan in Duncan Village protest, 1952
This is a historical account of the events of Sunday 9 November 1952 – that came to be known as Black Sunday in Duncan Village in the Eastern Cape Province of South Africa. It details how the story of Black Sunday has been (and continues to be) told and written in ways that contribute to gendered inequalities, qualified through the erasure and silencing of the role of Black womxn from historical struggles. While hundreds of people were murdered b…
Womxn’s bodies reclaiming the picket line
On 4 October 2016, during a #FeesMustFall protest at the University of the Witwatersrand (Wits) in Johannesburg, three young womxn bravely took off their tops, breasts out, and stood as a buffer zone between police and protesting students. The aim of the ‘nude’ protest was to obtain a ceasefire. This moment occurred after long hours of violence with heavily armed police firing stun grenades, teargas and rubber bullets, and students who retaliated…
Communication About Microbicide Use Between Couples in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa
The ways in which couples communicate about microbicides is likely to influence microbicide uptake and usage. We collected quantitative data about whether women in a microbicide trial discussed microbicides with their partners and explored communication about microbicides during 79 in-depth-interviews with women enrolled in the trial and 17 focus-group discussions with community members. After 4 weeks in the trial, 60 % of 1092 women had discusse…
How effective is effective enough? Opinions of potential end-users of microbicides from a rural South African community
To assess the views of potential end-users of a microbicide in KwaZulu-Natal regarding the characteristics that would justify further development, three focus group discussions were conducted in 2009 with 23 local staff members working on a microbicide clinical trial, 20 former trial participants and 14 Community Advisory Board members not enrolled in the trial, in an area with high HIV incidence and low consistent condom use. All participants ag…
The Implications of Post-coital Intravaginal Cleansing for the Introduction of Vaginal Microbicides in South Africa
Post-coital intravaginal cleansing (IVC) could counteract the protective effect of a vaginal microbicide. IVC less than 1 h after sex is discouraged in most microbicide trials. During a microbicide trial in KwaZulu-Natal, we collected quantitative data on post-coital IVC. We discussed IVC during in-depth-interviews (IDIs) and focus-group discussions (FGDs) with women enrolled in the trial, and during FGDs with community members. Nearly one-third …
Womxn’s bodies reclaiming the picket line
On 4 October 2016, during a #FeesMustFall protest at the University of the Witwatersrand (Wits) in Johannesburg, three young womxn bravely took off their tops, breasts out, and stood as a buffer zone between police and protesting students. The aim of the ‘nude’ protest was to obtain a ceasefire. This moment occurred after long hours of violence with heavily armed police firing stun grenades, teargas and rubber bullets, and students who retaliated…
Labor of love
Ethnographic studies are practically invasive in nature in that they intrude into people's everyday experiences. It is therefore the duty of a researcher documenting experiences of women to pay attention to these forms of violence and undertake the labor of love that seeks to re‐member women's bodies and their stories in ways that restore their dignity and contribute to healing. African feminists have encouraged us to employ research methods that…
Entangled battlefields
This briefing grapples with questions of precarious citizenship and entangled battlefields of violence and survival for womxn navigating the two pandemics of gender-based violence (GBV) and COVID-19. I map the multi-layered spaces where womxn continue to experience different forms of violence while battling to perform draining roles and stay safe from COVID-19. I identify the home as an entangled space of precariousness experienced by womxn amids…
How effective is effective enough? Opinions of potential end-users of microbicides from a rural South African community
To assess the views of potential end-users of a microbicide in KwaZulu-Natal regarding the characteristics that would justify further development, three focus group discussions were conducted in 2009 with 23 local staff members working on a microbicide clinical trial, 20 former trial participants and 14 Community Advisory Board members not enrolled in the trial, in an area with high HIV incidence and low consistent condom use. All participants ag…
The Implications of Post-coital Intravaginal Cleansing for the Introduction of Vaginal Microbicides in South Africa
Post-coital intravaginal cleansing (IVC) could counteract the protective effect of a vaginal microbicide. IVC less than 1 h after sex is discouraged in most microbicide trials. During a microbicide trial in KwaZulu-Natal, we collected quantitative data on post-coital IVC. We discussed IVC during in-depth-interviews (IDIs) and focus-group discussions (FGDs) with women enrolled in the trial, and during FGDs with community members. Nearly one-third …
Communication About Microbicide Use Between Couples in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa
The ways in which couples communicate about microbicides is likely to influence microbicide uptake and usage. We collected quantitative data about whether women in a microbicide trial discussed microbicides with their partners and explored communication about microbicides during 79 in-depth-interviews with women enrolled in the trial and 17 focus-group discussions with community members. After 4 weeks in the trial, 60 % of 1092 women had discusse…
Womxn’s bodies reclaiming the picket line
On 4 October 2016, during a #FeesMustFall protest at the University of the Witwatersrand (Wits) in Johannesburg, three young womxn bravely took off their tops, breasts out, and stood as a buffer zone between police and protesting students. The aim of the ‘nude’ protest was to obtain a ceasefire. This moment occurred after long hours of violence with heavily armed police firing stun grenades, teargas and rubber bullets, and students who retaliated…
Bodies that (do not) matter? Black Sunday and narratives of the death of Sister Aidan Quinlan in Duncan Village protest, 1952
This is a historical account of the events of Sunday 9 November 1952 – that came to be known as Black Sunday in Duncan Village in the Eastern Cape Province of South Africa. It details how the story of Black Sunday has been (and continues to be) told and written in ways that contribute to gendered inequalities, qualified through the erasure and silencing of the role of Black womxn from historical struggles. While hundreds of people were murdered b…
Entangled battlefields
This briefing grapples with questions of precarious citizenship and entangled battlefields of violence and survival for womxn navigating the two pandemics of gender-based violence (GBV) and COVID-19. I map the multi-layered spaces where womxn continue to experience different forms of violence while battling to perform draining roles and stay safe from COVID-19. I identify the home as an entangled space of precariousness experienced by womxn amids…
An Agenda with no gender
The South African opposition political parties went to the 2021 local government elections with one agenda: to push the African National Congress (ANC) – as the majority political party since the dawn of democracy to the opposition bench. This was despite their deep-seated ideological differences that are to date, far from being reconciled. The Democratic Alliance (DA), liberal at core, the Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) adopting the radical lef…
Forgotten Bodies or Silenced Voices? Recasting Women's Voices at the Bantu Square Massacre of East London, 1952
Narratives of political and community struggles often privilege the role of men, painting them as the faces of the struggle. Yet, women have been (and continue to be) active participants who have fought against systems of oppression through active mobilisation and resistance. This article focuses on events on 9 November 1952 at Bantu Square in Duncan Village, East London, when police broke up a meeting and shot and killed hundreds of people, whil…
Labor of love
Ethnographic studies are practically invasive in nature in that they intrude into people's everyday experiences. It is therefore the duty of a researcher documenting experiences of women to pay attention to these forms of violence and undertake the labor of love that seeks to re‐member women's bodies and their stories in ways that restore their dignity and contribute to healing. African feminists have encouraged us to employ research methods that…
Postcolonial gender reckonings
This article analyzes the gender order in contemporary South Africa by tracing the political, ideological, and material tensions shaping current struggles over gender justice. We treat gender as a historically situated and relational structure of power, formed through race, class, sexuality, nation, and the coloniality of being and knowing. Although the democratic transition established a strong institutional commitment to equality, structural vi…
Feminist Ethnography, State Fragility and Situated Praxis in Post-apartheid South Africa
This article explores the affective and epistemic demands of ethnographic fieldwork within the uneven terrain of post-apartheid South Africa. Drawing on long-term research in Duncan Village, a historically Black township in the Eastern Cape province, I analyse how the state is encountered through waiting, silence, refusal, and care in struggles over housing, services, and recognition. I argue that these are practices through which residents navig…
Gender Studies (6 obras) · Sociology (6 obras) · Gender Studies (5 obras) · Law (4 obras) · Law (4 obras) · Medicine (4 obras) · Political science (4 obras) · South African History and Culture (4 obras) · Adolescent Sexual and Reproductive Health (3 obras) · Environmental health (3 obras)