Jill Bradbury
Biographic Data
| ID | 185066 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Jill Bradbury |
| GIVEN NAMES | Jill |
| FAMILY NAME | Bradbury |
| SIGNATURE | BRADBURY J |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of the Witwatersrand |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-9696-9956 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 14 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 27 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 14 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2010 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Narrative subjectivity: Restorying hope
The question of hope is arguably most pressing where it is most ephemeral or ostensibly the least reasonable response to a world confronting the polycrises of climate catastrophe, multiple geopolitical conflicts, and deepening inequality. Hope is typically future-orientated, framing both political and personal possibilities in developmental terms and strongly invested in the promise of youthful potential. Narrative temporality disrupts this linea…
(Re)-voicing freedom: Refusal, Anger, and Fantasies of Violence
Freedom in South Africa is broadly defined through the politics of racial reconciliation. The article offers insights into the understanding of freedoms and unfreedoms for previously silenced and marginalised apartheid subjects. Bridging feminist research and narrative theory, the paper explores retrospective intergenerational narratives of apartheid lived experiences, unpacking how older generation women articulate freedom in post-apartheid Sout…
Introduction: The legacy of Bhekizizwe Peterson for Psychology in Society
This special issue of PINS commemorates and celebrates the work and thought of the late renowned Professor of African literature and award-winning film-maker, Bhekizizwe Peterson. From different angles, the authors in this volume place psychology in dialogue with Peterson’s work, continuing a transdisciplinary conversation in which he was a consistently generous and enlivening interlocutor. Contemporary imperatives to decolonise intellectual trad…
Articulating Our-selves: The (extra)ordinary art of life
This paper offers a dialogical engagement with Bhekizizwe Peterson’s oeuvre of work through the framing of narrative subjectivity as constituted by three intertwined threads: 1) relationality; 2) temporality; and 3) embodiment (Bradbury, 2020). Peterson offers critical and creative resources for reconfiguring psychosocial praxis, persisting with the question of what it might mean to be human in dehumanising conditions. In his analytically rigorou…
Narrative world-making: Living in landscapes of loss
Learning to Resist and Resisting Learning
The COVID crisis has disrupted routine patterns and practices across all spheres of everyday life, rupturing social relations and destabilising our capacity for building coherent selves and communities by recollecting the past and imagining potential futures. Education is a key domain in which these hopes for the future have been dashed for many young people and in which commitments to critical scholarship and pedagogies are being contested. In a…
Introduction: Narrative Articulations in Africa
This special issue is a collection of papers drawn from NEST (Narrative Enquiry for Social Transformation)1 conference and symposia events hosted since 2015 at the University of the Witwatersrand
Metaphorical sense-making: Visual-narrative language portraits of South African students
This article reflects on a creative visual-narrative approach to understanding South African students’ lived experiences of languages. Data were collected in two interviews: the first entailing a biographical history and the drawing of a linguistic portrait on a simple body outline and the second a narrative interview utilising the portrait generated in the first as a basis for talking about language and identity. Framing the research process in …
Prose Genre and the Emergence of Modern Economic Reasoning in Eighteenth-Century Britain
Child-headed households under watchful adult eyes: Support or surveillance
This article is based on a narrative study involving six adolescent heads of households and their siblings from an informal township and a rural village in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa, focusing on how they construct their sense of self and family. The article explores the stories emerging from the study about the relationship between children in child-headed households and adults in the wider community. While these young people do experience netw…
Echoes of the Past in Imaginings of the Future: The Problems and Possibilities of Working with Young People in Contemporary South Africa
This article presents an exploration of how past and future are articulated in the construction of youth identities in the context of South Africa, with a particular focus on the possibilities for change in discourses of nationality and gender. The authors' selective focus on these two dimensions of identity is not only informed by theoretical interests, but is also driven by their implication in the critical social problems of xenophobia and gen…
Telling stories for the next generation: Trauma and nostalgia
Narrative possibilities of the past for the future: Nostalgia and hope
Narrative Possibilities: Theorizing Identity in a Context of Practice
The paper explores the ways in which narrative theories of identity may serve to interpret particular contextualized practices, working developmentally with South African youth. By locating narrative theories of identity in relation to two other theoretical frameworks, Vygotsky’s zone of proximal development and Ricoeur’s hermeneutics of textuality, we create a new theoretical approach for thinking about the possibilities and constraints for unde…
Narrative possibilities of the past for the future: Nostalgia and hope
Telling stories for the next generation: Trauma and nostalgia
Metaphorical sense-making: Visual-narrative language portraits of South African students
This article reflects on a creative visual-narrative approach to understanding South African students’ lived experiences of languages. Data were collected in two interviews: the first entailing a biographical history and the drawing of a linguistic portrait on a simple body outline and the second a narrative interview utilising the portrait generated in the first as a basis for talking about language and identity. Framing the research process in …
Echoes of the Past in Imaginings of the Future: The Problems and Possibilities of Working with Young People in Contemporary South Africa
This article presents an exploration of how past and future are articulated in the construction of youth identities in the context of South Africa, with a particular focus on the possibilities for change in discourses of nationality and gender. The authors' selective focus on these two dimensions of identity is not only informed by theoretical interests, but is also driven by their implication in the critical social problems of xenophobia and gen…
(Re)-voicing freedom: Refusal, Anger, and Fantasies of Violence
Freedom in South Africa is broadly defined through the politics of racial reconciliation. The article offers insights into the understanding of freedoms and unfreedoms for previously silenced and marginalised apartheid subjects. Bridging feminist research and narrative theory, the paper explores retrospective intergenerational narratives of apartheid lived experiences, unpacking how older generation women articulate freedom in post-apartheid Sout…
Narrative world-making: Living in landscapes of loss
Learning to Resist and Resisting Learning
The COVID crisis has disrupted routine patterns and practices across all spheres of everyday life, rupturing social relations and destabilising our capacity for building coherent selves and communities by recollecting the past and imagining potential futures. Education is a key domain in which these hopes for the future have been dashed for many young people and in which commitments to critical scholarship and pedagogies are being contested. In a…
Introduction: Narrative Articulations in Africa
This special issue is a collection of papers drawn from NEST (Narrative Enquiry for Social Transformation)1 conference and symposia events hosted since 2015 at the University of the Witwatersrand
Child-headed households under watchful adult eyes: Support or surveillance
This article is based on a narrative study involving six adolescent heads of households and their siblings from an informal township and a rural village in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa, focusing on how they construct their sense of self and family. The article explores the stories emerging from the study about the relationship between children in child-headed households and adults in the wider community. While these young people do experience netw…
Narrative Possibilities: Theorizing Identity in a Context of Practice
The paper explores the ways in which narrative theories of identity may serve to interpret particular contextualized practices, working developmentally with South African youth. By locating narrative theories of identity in relation to two other theoretical frameworks, Vygotsky’s zone of proximal development and Ricoeur’s hermeneutics of textuality, we create a new theoretical approach for thinking about the possibilities and constraints for unde…
Echoes of the Past in Imaginings of the Future: The Problems and Possibilities of Working with Young People in Contemporary South Africa
This article presents an exploration of how past and future are articulated in the construction of youth identities in the context of South Africa, with a particular focus on the possibilities for change in discourses of nationality and gender. The authors' selective focus on these two dimensions of identity is not only informed by theoretical interests, but is also driven by their implication in the critical social problems of xenophobia and gen…
Telling stories for the next generation: Trauma and nostalgia
Narrative possibilities of the past for the future: Nostalgia and hope
Child-headed households under watchful adult eyes: Support or surveillance
This article is based on a narrative study involving six adolescent heads of households and their siblings from an informal township and a rural village in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa, focusing on how they construct their sense of self and family. The article explores the stories emerging from the study about the relationship between children in child-headed households and adults in the wider community. While these young people do experience netw…
Prose Genre and the Emergence of Modern Economic Reasoning in Eighteenth-Century Britain
Metaphorical sense-making: Visual-narrative language portraits of South African students
This article reflects on a creative visual-narrative approach to understanding South African students’ lived experiences of languages. Data were collected in two interviews: the first entailing a biographical history and the drawing of a linguistic portrait on a simple body outline and the second a narrative interview utilising the portrait generated in the first as a basis for talking about language and identity. Framing the research process in …
Introduction: Narrative Articulations in Africa
This special issue is a collection of papers drawn from NEST (Narrative Enquiry for Social Transformation)1 conference and symposia events hosted since 2015 at the University of the Witwatersrand
Learning to Resist and Resisting Learning
The COVID crisis has disrupted routine patterns and practices across all spheres of everyday life, rupturing social relations and destabilising our capacity for building coherent selves and communities by recollecting the past and imagining potential futures. Education is a key domain in which these hopes for the future have been dashed for many young people and in which commitments to critical scholarship and pedagogies are being contested. In a…
Introduction: The legacy of Bhekizizwe Peterson for Psychology in Society
This special issue of PINS commemorates and celebrates the work and thought of the late renowned Professor of African literature and award-winning film-maker, Bhekizizwe Peterson. From different angles, the authors in this volume place psychology in dialogue with Peterson’s work, continuing a transdisciplinary conversation in which he was a consistently generous and enlivening interlocutor. Contemporary imperatives to decolonise intellectual trad…
Articulating Our-selves: The (extra)ordinary art of life
This paper offers a dialogical engagement with Bhekizizwe Peterson’s oeuvre of work through the framing of narrative subjectivity as constituted by three intertwined threads: 1) relationality; 2) temporality; and 3) embodiment (Bradbury, 2020). Peterson offers critical and creative resources for reconfiguring psychosocial praxis, persisting with the question of what it might mean to be human in dehumanising conditions. In his analytically rigorou…
Narrative world-making: Living in landscapes of loss
(Re)-voicing freedom: Refusal, Anger, and Fantasies of Violence
Freedom in South Africa is broadly defined through the politics of racial reconciliation. The article offers insights into the understanding of freedoms and unfreedoms for previously silenced and marginalised apartheid subjects. Bridging feminist research and narrative theory, the paper explores retrospective intergenerational narratives of apartheid lived experiences, unpacking how older generation women articulate freedom in post-apartheid Sout…
Narrative subjectivity: Restorying hope
The question of hope is arguably most pressing where it is most ephemeral or ostensibly the least reasonable response to a world confronting the polycrises of climate catastrophe, multiple geopolitical conflicts, and deepening inequality. Hope is typically future-orientated, framing both political and personal possibilities in developmental terms and strongly invested in the promise of youthful potential. Narrative temporality disrupts this linea…
Sociology (11 works) · Aesthetics (10 works) · History (10 works) · Narrative (10 works) · Art (8 works) · History (6 works) · Literature (6 works) · Political science (6 works) · Psychology (6 works) · Epistemology (5 works)