Thembi Luckett
Biographic Data
| ID | 174775 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Thembi Luckett |
| GIVEN NAMES | Thembi |
| FAMILY NAME | Luckett |
| SIGNATURE | LUCKETT T |
| AFFILIATIONS | Newcastle University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-2361-7893 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 7 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 31 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 7 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2008 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Contesting the Just Transition from the Waterberg Coalfield: Grounded socio-ecological possibilities for (co)habitable futures
Anthropogenic climate change through fossil-fuel reliance has necessitated decarbonisation on a global scale. The “Just Transition,” as a concept embedded in a particular and shifting discursive context, weighs up environmental ambitions against material livelihood impacts, and is increasingly gaining significant political currency. It is, however, often implemented in a top-down techno-managerial manner that flattens out localised socio-ecologic…
Living and dying in the shadow of coal: Relocating social death and its contestations in Lephalale
Marapong, "place of bones", is situated in the shadow of the coal-fired Matimba Power Station and Grootegeluk coal mine in Lephalale, northern South Africa. Marapong was named after the bones of a local woman, Salaminah Moloantoa, which were found during the development of Grootegeluk in 1973. That same year her bones were buried on Naawontkomen farm where she had lived. Thirty-four years later with the construction of coal-fired Medupi Power Sta…
Body mapping: Feminist-Activist Geographies in Practice
Body mapping is an intimate cartographic process that involves tracing the body and exploring one's embodied experience. This visual, arts-based process is highly reflective, designed to empower communities to express and share stories - often those difficult to utter. Steeped in various activist and feminist traditions, body mapping is also a practice of care. It is not just about producing a map but is also about coming together to tend to the …
Hope in the debris of capitalist dys/utopia? Historical progress and the intricacies of everyday life in Lephalale
In 2015, the local municipality of Lephalale in the Limpopo province of South Africa heralded the town as "the new Johannesburg" and the "future hub of power generation in South Africa." The growth of the town is based on the expansion of coal extractivism in the area. The construction of the Medupi coal power station is celebrated as "creating a better life for all" despite the destruction and dispossession left in the wake of this resource extr…
Navigating our way: A compass for popular educators
This article addresses the tensions and contradictions of applying a popular education approach in the current context of South Africa. It draws upon data from an 18-month research project exploring the traditions of popular education. It presents an extended discussion on the meanings of popular education, and their varied implications for practice. It presents a heuristic device in the form of a ‘compass’, to assist popular educators locate the…
The development of agency in first generation learners in higher education: A Social Realist Analysis
This paper reports on the findings of a formative evaluation of the mentorship support programme run by the Maskh'iSizwe Centre of Excellence for recipients of its bursaries. Learning theory traditions have typically been divided into those that prioritise individual cognition versus those that prioritise the context in which learning occurs. In both these traditions, the individual agent is dissolved. This paper interrogates the ontological assu…
Unsettling Humanity: A Critique of Archer's Being Human
What does it mean to be human? This question has plagued the thoughts of people over centuries and will continue to do so. Margaret Archer attempts to grapple with the nature of our humanity in Being Human, the third volume in her ambitious five volume series theorising agency, culture and structure within a realist framework. I choose to focus on this book because it lays the foundations of agency and what it means to be human, which allows Arch…
The development of agency in first generation learners in higher education: A Social Realist Analysis
This paper reports on the findings of a formative evaluation of the mentorship support programme run by the Maskh'iSizwe Centre of Excellence for recipients of its bursaries. Learning theory traditions have typically been divided into those that prioritise individual cognition versus those that prioritise the context in which learning occurs. In both these traditions, the individual agent is dissolved. This paper interrogates the ontological assu…
Body mapping: Feminist-Activist Geographies in Practice
Body mapping is an intimate cartographic process that involves tracing the body and exploring one's embodied experience. This visual, arts-based process is highly reflective, designed to empower communities to express and share stories - often those difficult to utter. Steeped in various activist and feminist traditions, body mapping is also a practice of care. It is not just about producing a map but is also about coming together to tend to the …
Navigating our way: A compass for popular educators
This article addresses the tensions and contradictions of applying a popular education approach in the current context of South Africa. It draws upon data from an 18-month research project exploring the traditions of popular education. It presents an extended discussion on the meanings of popular education, and their varied implications for practice. It presents a heuristic device in the form of a ‘compass’, to assist popular educators locate the…
Hope in the debris of capitalist dys/utopia? Historical progress and the intricacies of everyday life in Lephalale
In 2015, the local municipality of Lephalale in the Limpopo province of South Africa heralded the town as "the new Johannesburg" and the "future hub of power generation in South Africa." The growth of the town is based on the expansion of coal extractivism in the area. The construction of the Medupi coal power station is celebrated as "creating a better life for all" despite the destruction and dispossession left in the wake of this resource extr…
Unsettling Humanity: A Critique of Archer's Being Human
What does it mean to be human? This question has plagued the thoughts of people over centuries and will continue to do so. Margaret Archer attempts to grapple with the nature of our humanity in Being Human, the third volume in her ambitious five volume series theorising agency, culture and structure within a realist framework. I choose to focus on this book because it lays the foundations of agency and what it means to be human, which allows Arch…
The development of agency in first generation learners in higher education: A Social Realist Analysis
This paper reports on the findings of a formative evaluation of the mentorship support programme run by the Maskh'iSizwe Centre of Excellence for recipients of its bursaries. Learning theory traditions have typically been divided into those that prioritise individual cognition versus those that prioritise the context in which learning occurs. In both these traditions, the individual agent is dissolved. This paper interrogates the ontological assu…
Navigating our way: A compass for popular educators
This article addresses the tensions and contradictions of applying a popular education approach in the current context of South Africa. It draws upon data from an 18-month research project exploring the traditions of popular education. It presents an extended discussion on the meanings of popular education, and their varied implications for practice. It presents a heuristic device in the form of a ‘compass’, to assist popular educators locate the…
Hope in the debris of capitalist dys/utopia? Historical progress and the intricacies of everyday life in Lephalale
In 2015, the local municipality of Lephalale in the Limpopo province of South Africa heralded the town as "the new Johannesburg" and the "future hub of power generation in South Africa." The growth of the town is based on the expansion of coal extractivism in the area. The construction of the Medupi coal power station is celebrated as "creating a better life for all" despite the destruction and dispossession left in the wake of this resource extr…
Living and dying in the shadow of coal: Relocating social death and its contestations in Lephalale
Marapong, "place of bones", is situated in the shadow of the coal-fired Matimba Power Station and Grootegeluk coal mine in Lephalale, northern South Africa. Marapong was named after the bones of a local woman, Salaminah Moloantoa, which were found during the development of Grootegeluk in 1973. That same year her bones were buried on Naawontkomen farm where she had lived. Thirty-four years later with the construction of coal-fired Medupi Power Sta…
Body mapping: Feminist-Activist Geographies in Practice
Body mapping is an intimate cartographic process that involves tracing the body and exploring one's embodied experience. This visual, arts-based process is highly reflective, designed to empower communities to express and share stories - often those difficult to utter. Steeped in various activist and feminist traditions, body mapping is also a practice of care. It is not just about producing a map but is also about coming together to tend to the …
Contesting the Just Transition from the Waterberg Coalfield: Grounded socio-ecological possibilities for (co)habitable futures
Anthropogenic climate change through fossil-fuel reliance has necessitated decarbonisation on a global scale. The “Just Transition,” as a concept embedded in a particular and shifting discursive context, weighs up environmental ambitions against material livelihood impacts, and is increasingly gaining significant political currency. It is, however, often implemented in a top-down techno-managerial manner that flattens out localised socio-ecologic…
Sociology (6 works) · Political science (5 works) · Law (4 works) · Epistemology (3 works) · Politics (3 works) · Aesthetics (2 works) · Capitalism (2 works) · Context (archaeology (2 works) · Conversation (2 works) · Critical Realism in Sociology (2 works)