Karen Naidoo
Biographic Data
| ID | 108829 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Karen Naidoo |
| GIVEN NAMES | Karen |
| FAMILY NAME | Naidoo |
| SIGNATURE | NAIDOO K |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of the Western Cape |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-1627-9264 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 4 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 9 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2013 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Housing and Water Insecurity as Structural Predictors of Intimate Partner Violence
Black youth experiencing homelessness and criminal justice involvement
Youth homelessness and involvement with the criminal justice system (CJS) are deeply interconnected in Canada, with Black youth disproportionately affected due to systemic and structural inequities. While research on race, gender, and the CJS is growing, the specific experiences of Black youth facing housing precarity remain underexplored. This paper investigates the relationship between Black youth homelessness and CJS involvement using data fro…
Philosophical reflections on the life and works of Mabogo Percy More
Endaayaang
This article explores Endaayaang, which means a safe place where the heart and spirit feel at home, an Indigenous Housing First for Youth programme, located in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada. The programme is informed by Elders, Traditional Knowledge Holders, Indigenous youth and Indigenous frontline workers and is grounded in Indigenous knowledges and worldviews. The programme helps unhoused Indigenous youth secure, safe and affordable housing, witho…
On and beyond artifacts in moral relations
The ubiquity of technology in our lives and its culmination in artificial intelligence raises questions about its role in our moral considerations. In this paper, we address a moral concern in relation to technological systems given their deep integration in our lives. Coeckelbergh develops a social-relational account, suggesting that it can point us toward a dynamic, historicised evaluation of moral concern. While agreeing with Coeckelbergh’s mo…
The Incompatibility of Humanism in the South African Constitution with Neoliberal Governmentality
The Constitution of the Republic of South Africa is a momentous text in the history of South Africa’s liberation from the apartheid regime. It marks a break with the old regime, which sought to protect the prosperity of the country’s white minority while oppressing the black majority. The shift posited in the Constitution was clearly legal, but it was also conceptual. It was written with the intention to change the normative structure and princip…
Between racial madness and neoliberal reason
I will seek to consider the simultaneous workings of race and capital in apartheid biopower. J.M. Coetzee offers a reading of apartheid racism as racial madness which is imbricated with economic reason. In the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, we have witnessed instances of the biopolitical making live and letting die. The Strandfontein homeless camp set up just outside Cape Town in 2020 is an instantiation of a particular normative order, wherein c…
My body. My politics. An exploration of body image and health in Barbadian sexual minority women
There is a dearth of research on how pervasive Western stereotypes of the ideal body affect non-heterosexual women, and this body of research shrinks even further when considering sexual minority women in the Caribbean. This study aimed to uncover how negotiations between identity, desire, and body politics are being navigated and experienced by sexual minority women in Barbados, along with examining concerns about body image, the impact of socie…
Lemeh Check See If Meh Mask on Straight
Black experiences in Canada are diverse and made more complex by specific issues brought on by gender and even health. This paper seeks to examine how Black Caribbean descent women in Canada manage depression and construct womanhood through the discourse of "Being Strong." "Being Strong" (Schreiber et al., 2000) assumes that strength is naturally inherited and embedded within the cultural context of Black Caribbean descent women in Canada. The cu…
Lemeh Check See If Meh Mask on Straight
Black experiences in Canada are diverse and made more complex by specific issues brought on by gender and even health. This paper seeks to examine how Black Caribbean descent women in Canada manage depression and construct womanhood through the discourse of "Being Strong." "Being Strong" (Schreiber et al., 2000) assumes that strength is naturally inherited and embedded within the cultural context of Black Caribbean descent women in Canada. The cu…
My body. My politics. An exploration of body image and health in Barbadian sexual minority women
There is a dearth of research on how pervasive Western stereotypes of the ideal body affect non-heterosexual women, and this body of research shrinks even further when considering sexual minority women in the Caribbean. This study aimed to uncover how negotiations between identity, desire, and body politics are being navigated and experienced by sexual minority women in Barbados, along with examining concerns about body image, the impact of socie…
Lemeh Check See If Meh Mask on Straight
Black experiences in Canada are diverse and made more complex by specific issues brought on by gender and even health. This paper seeks to examine how Black Caribbean descent women in Canada manage depression and construct womanhood through the discourse of "Being Strong." "Being Strong" (Schreiber et al., 2000) assumes that strength is naturally inherited and embedded within the cultural context of Black Caribbean descent women in Canada. The cu…
My body. My politics. An exploration of body image and health in Barbadian sexual minority women
There is a dearth of research on how pervasive Western stereotypes of the ideal body affect non-heterosexual women, and this body of research shrinks even further when considering sexual minority women in the Caribbean. This study aimed to uncover how negotiations between identity, desire, and body politics are being navigated and experienced by sexual minority women in Barbados, along with examining concerns about body image, the impact of socie…
On and beyond artifacts in moral relations
The ubiquity of technology in our lives and its culmination in artificial intelligence raises questions about its role in our moral considerations. In this paper, we address a moral concern in relation to technological systems given their deep integration in our lives. Coeckelbergh develops a social-relational account, suggesting that it can point us toward a dynamic, historicised evaluation of moral concern. While agreeing with Coeckelbergh’s mo…
The Incompatibility of Humanism in the South African Constitution with Neoliberal Governmentality
The Constitution of the Republic of South Africa is a momentous text in the history of South Africa’s liberation from the apartheid regime. It marks a break with the old regime, which sought to protect the prosperity of the country’s white minority while oppressing the black majority. The shift posited in the Constitution was clearly legal, but it was also conceptual. It was written with the intention to change the normative structure and princip…
Between racial madness and neoliberal reason
I will seek to consider the simultaneous workings of race and capital in apartheid biopower. J.M. Coetzee offers a reading of apartheid racism as racial madness which is imbricated with economic reason. In the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, we have witnessed instances of the biopolitical making live and letting die. The Strandfontein homeless camp set up just outside Cape Town in 2020 is an instantiation of a particular normative order, wherein c…
Endaayaang
This article explores Endaayaang, which means a safe place where the heart and spirit feel at home, an Indigenous Housing First for Youth programme, located in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada. The programme is informed by Elders, Traditional Knowledge Holders, Indigenous youth and Indigenous frontline workers and is grounded in Indigenous knowledges and worldviews. The programme helps unhoused Indigenous youth secure, safe and affordable housing, witho…
Philosophical reflections on the life and works of Mabogo Percy More
Housing and Water Insecurity as Structural Predictors of Intimate Partner Violence
Black youth experiencing homelessness and criminal justice involvement
Youth homelessness and involvement with the criminal justice system (CJS) are deeply interconnected in Canada, with Black youth disproportionately affected due to systemic and structural inequities. While research on race, gender, and the CJS is growing, the specific experiences of Black youth facing housing precarity remain underexplored. This paper investigates the relationship between Black youth homelessness and CJS involvement using data fro…
Sociology (6 works) · Gender Studies (5 works) · Political science (5 works) · Environmental ethics (2 works) · Gender Studies (2 works) · Geography (2 works) · Homelessness and Social Issues (2 works) · Law (2 works) · Mental health (2 works) · Philosophy (2 works)