Siphiwe I Dube
Biographic Data
| ID | 142669 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Siphiwe I Dube |
| GIVEN NAMES | Siphiwe I |
| FAMILY NAME | Dube |
| SIGNATURE | DUBE S I |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of the Witwatersrand |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-9080-6128 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 13 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 7 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 13 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2011 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Liberating liberation theologies in post-apartheid South Africa
In taking the notions of dynamicity and change seriously, this article offers a critical, albeit partial, examination of the status quo of liberation theologies in South Africa. To that end, this article provided a background to our thinking on how and why the current discourse on liberation theologies must be challenged to embrace alternative liberative ways of thinking and being that exist outside of academia and, consequently, outside a libera…
Black African Neo/Pentecostal Political Subjectivity and/as Black Consciousness
This article explores the political implications of the intersection of African Political Theology and critical race discourse. Its main argument is that, African Neo/Pentecostal Political Theology highlights that moral and political subjectivity in the context of a necropolitical postcolonial Africa is a result of the intersection of a complex set of practices linked to oneself, others, the state, and G/god. Moreover, in its concern with politic…
Christian nationalism in post-apartheid South Africa
This article sheds light on two extremely important processes of the rise of Christian Nationalism and Christian New Right ideology that are currently underway in post-apartheid South Africa and situates these processes in relation to other regions of the world. In particular, the article calls attention to a creeping religious orientation in post-apartheid South Africa towards Christian Nationalism by insisting on the ideological centrality of C…
Towards a Decolonial Political Theology of Vulnerability
This article argues for a Decolonial Political Theology of vulnerability in the context of neo-apartheid South Africa. The article puts forward the argument that vulnerability is an essential part of the decolonial project, and in particular decolonial theology. In developing its argument, the article first provides some definitional limitations of vulnerability. It then links the definitions to the theme of the coloniality of Being and the discu…
The Artistry of Critical Thought
This article provides an analysis of the way in which contemporary forms of intelligence discourse (Jean Baudrillard), in similar fashion to political art (Theodor Adorno and Herbert Marcuse), function by delimiting critical thought. The intelligence discourse critiqued is extolled through things such as progressive intelligence acquisition (Flynn effect) and the supposed indispensability of Democratic reason (Hélène Landemore), amongst other qua…
Decolonising the Theologico-Political Problem
The theologico-political problem, traditionally concerned with the question of the seat of authority or sovereignty in the West (rendered through the metaphor of Jerusalem vs Athens or Revelation vs Reason), has been brought to the fore of late in a number of nation-states in Africa. To the end of rethinking the theologico-political problem or decolonising it, this article draws on Achille Mbembe's notion of improvisation as an important avenue t…
Redemption and restoration
This article engages with the religious dimension of the politics of anti-slavery/trafficking and presents an analysis of select Christian-identified organisations working in anti-slavery/trafficking in South Africa. Using website content of the select organisations as primary material, the article argues that in similar ways to the paternalistic early Christian missionary approach to indigenous religious practices, the politics of paternalism pe…
The New Religious Political Right in Neo-Apartheid South Africa
This article argues that, in similar ways that scholars such as Kaye (1987) and Apple (1990) have respectively demonstrated how post 1970s America and Britain fused the neo-liberal discourse of free markets with the neo-conservative Christian discourse of moral rightness to found a New Right, we can apply this analytical model in post-apartheid/neo-apartheid South Africa. The aim of this analytical comparison is to support the broad claim that th…
The Decoloniality of being PoliticalStudies/Science
In contributing further to the general debate on decolonising Higher Education in South Africa, this article grapples with the question of being for Political Studies/Science. Specifically, the article engages with the question of how might departments of Political Studies/Science begin to imagine and engage the kind of complex decolonised curriculum that pays attention to the relevant structural and sociocultural contexts of South Africa without…
Praying for Change in the Nations
Praying for Change in the Nations: Prayer, Politics, and Power in Sub-Saharan Africa Siphiwe I Dube Siphiwe I Dube SIPHIWE I. DUBE (BA (Hons), Mount Allison University, Canada; MA, Queen’s University, Canada; PhD, University of Toronto, Canada) is Lecturer and Head of Department of Political Studies at the University of Witwatersrand, South Africa. [email protected] https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9080-6128 Search for other works by this author…
A Foray into (Study of?) Christian African Political Theology
This article is a theoretical exploration of the concept of African Political Theology (APT). Consequently, part of what I do in this article is to illuminate the particular ways in which APT negotiates the tension between the secular political theology received from the western traditions and the materialist political spirituality that animates much of the African religio-political context. Specifically, I argue that APT decenters the state in A…
Articulating selfhood through the therapeutic
In this article, we argue that it is in engaging with the particularly socio-politically loaded topics such as racism, gender-based violence, homophobia, and classism, where we urgently need to find new ways of simultaneously opening up, holding, and containing the visceral responses of students in relation to continuously renegotiating boundaries of the learning environment. Specifically, we contend that under the current conditions of calls for…
Transitional Justice Beyond the Normative
Journal Article Transitional Justice Beyond the Normative: Towards a Literary Theory of Political Transitions Get access Siphiwe Ignatius Dube Siphiwe Ignatius Dube * * Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Religious Studies, Memorial University of Newfoundland, Canada. Email: [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar International Journal of Transitional Justice, Volume 5, Issue 2, July 2011, Pages 177–19…
Transitional Justice Beyond the Normative
Journal Article Transitional Justice Beyond the Normative: Towards a Literary Theory of Political Transitions Get access Siphiwe Ignatius Dube Siphiwe Ignatius Dube * * Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Religious Studies, Memorial University of Newfoundland, Canada. Email: [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar International Journal of Transitional Justice, Volume 5, Issue 2, July 2011, Pages 177–19…
Decolonising the Theologico-Political Problem
The theologico-political problem, traditionally concerned with the question of the seat of authority or sovereignty in the West (rendered through the metaphor of Jerusalem vs Athens or Revelation vs Reason), has been brought to the fore of late in a number of nation-states in Africa. To the end of rethinking the theologico-political problem or decolonising it, this article draws on Achille Mbembe's notion of improvisation as an important avenue t…
Praying for Change in the Nations
Praying for Change in the Nations: Prayer, Politics, and Power in Sub-Saharan Africa Siphiwe I Dube Siphiwe I Dube SIPHIWE I. DUBE (BA (Hons), Mount Allison University, Canada; MA, Queen’s University, Canada; PhD, University of Toronto, Canada) is Lecturer and Head of Department of Political Studies at the University of Witwatersrand, South Africa. [email protected] https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9080-6128 Search for other works by this author…
A Foray into (Study of?) Christian African Political Theology
This article is a theoretical exploration of the concept of African Political Theology (APT). Consequently, part of what I do in this article is to illuminate the particular ways in which APT negotiates the tension between the secular political theology received from the western traditions and the materialist political spirituality that animates much of the African religio-political context. Specifically, I argue that APT decenters the state in A…
Transitional Justice Beyond the Normative
Journal Article Transitional Justice Beyond the Normative: Towards a Literary Theory of Political Transitions Get access Siphiwe Ignatius Dube Siphiwe Ignatius Dube * * Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Religious Studies, Memorial University of Newfoundland, Canada. Email: [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar International Journal of Transitional Justice, Volume 5, Issue 2, July 2011, Pages 177–19…
Articulating selfhood through the therapeutic
In this article, we argue that it is in engaging with the particularly socio-politically loaded topics such as racism, gender-based violence, homophobia, and classism, where we urgently need to find new ways of simultaneously opening up, holding, and containing the visceral responses of students in relation to continuously renegotiating boundaries of the learning environment. Specifically, we contend that under the current conditions of calls for…
A Foray into (Study of?) Christian African Political Theology
This article is a theoretical exploration of the concept of African Political Theology (APT). Consequently, part of what I do in this article is to illuminate the particular ways in which APT negotiates the tension between the secular political theology received from the western traditions and the materialist political spirituality that animates much of the African religio-political context. Specifically, I argue that APT decenters the state in A…
Redemption and restoration
This article engages with the religious dimension of the politics of anti-slavery/trafficking and presents an analysis of select Christian-identified organisations working in anti-slavery/trafficking in South Africa. Using website content of the select organisations as primary material, the article argues that in similar ways to the paternalistic early Christian missionary approach to indigenous religious practices, the politics of paternalism pe…
The New Religious Political Right in Neo-Apartheid South Africa
This article argues that, in similar ways that scholars such as Kaye (1987) and Apple (1990) have respectively demonstrated how post 1970s America and Britain fused the neo-liberal discourse of free markets with the neo-conservative Christian discourse of moral rightness to found a New Right, we can apply this analytical model in post-apartheid/neo-apartheid South Africa. The aim of this analytical comparison is to support the broad claim that th…
The Decoloniality of being PoliticalStudies/Science
In contributing further to the general debate on decolonising Higher Education in South Africa, this article grapples with the question of being for Political Studies/Science. Specifically, the article engages with the question of how might departments of Political Studies/Science begin to imagine and engage the kind of complex decolonised curriculum that pays attention to the relevant structural and sociocultural contexts of South Africa without…
Praying for Change in the Nations
Praying for Change in the Nations: Prayer, Politics, and Power in Sub-Saharan Africa Siphiwe I Dube Siphiwe I Dube SIPHIWE I. DUBE (BA (Hons), Mount Allison University, Canada; MA, Queen’s University, Canada; PhD, University of Toronto, Canada) is Lecturer and Head of Department of Political Studies at the University of Witwatersrand, South Africa. [email protected] https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9080-6128 Search for other works by this author…
The Artistry of Critical Thought
This article provides an analysis of the way in which contemporary forms of intelligence discourse (Jean Baudrillard), in similar fashion to political art (Theodor Adorno and Herbert Marcuse), function by delimiting critical thought. The intelligence discourse critiqued is extolled through things such as progressive intelligence acquisition (Flynn effect) and the supposed indispensability of Democratic reason (Hélène Landemore), amongst other qua…
Decolonising the Theologico-Political Problem
The theologico-political problem, traditionally concerned with the question of the seat of authority or sovereignty in the West (rendered through the metaphor of Jerusalem vs Athens or Revelation vs Reason), has been brought to the fore of late in a number of nation-states in Africa. To the end of rethinking the theologico-political problem or decolonising it, this article draws on Achille Mbembe's notion of improvisation as an important avenue t…
Christian nationalism in post-apartheid South Africa
This article sheds light on two extremely important processes of the rise of Christian Nationalism and Christian New Right ideology that are currently underway in post-apartheid South Africa and situates these processes in relation to other regions of the world. In particular, the article calls attention to a creeping religious orientation in post-apartheid South Africa towards Christian Nationalism by insisting on the ideological centrality of C…
Towards a Decolonial Political Theology of Vulnerability
This article argues for a Decolonial Political Theology of vulnerability in the context of neo-apartheid South Africa. The article puts forward the argument that vulnerability is an essential part of the decolonial project, and in particular decolonial theology. In developing its argument, the article first provides some definitional limitations of vulnerability. It then links the definitions to the theme of the coloniality of Being and the discu…
Black African Neo/Pentecostal Political Subjectivity and/as Black Consciousness
This article explores the political implications of the intersection of African Political Theology and critical race discourse. Its main argument is that, African Neo/Pentecostal Political Theology highlights that moral and political subjectivity in the context of a necropolitical postcolonial Africa is a result of the intersection of a complex set of practices linked to oneself, others, the state, and G/god. Moreover, in its concern with politic…
Liberating liberation theologies in post-apartheid South Africa
In taking the notions of dynamicity and change seriously, this article offers a critical, albeit partial, examination of the status quo of liberation theologies in South Africa. To that end, this article provided a background to our thinking on how and why the current discourse on liberation theologies must be challenged to embrace alternative liberative ways of thinking and being that exist outside of academia and, consequently, outside a libera…
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