Elelwani Ramugondo
Biographic Data
| ID | 228726 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Elelwani Ramugondo |
| GIVEN NAMES | Elelwani |
| FAMILY NAME | Ramugondo |
| SIGNATURE | RAMUGONDO E |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Cape Town |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-1987-4651 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 13 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 138 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 13 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2012 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Understanding ‘violence’ within protest
There is a dearth of research in occupational science towards understanding 'violence' within the context of protest, including why and how these two phenomena occur in and of each other and why both are characteristic of Post-Apartheid South Africa. This gap in knowledge is particularly concerning as both the profession of occupational therapy and the discipline of occupational science are concerned with human occupation as a means of analysing …
Occupational consciousness
Crafting a Foucauldian Archaeology Method
South Africa has a colonial and apartheid past of social injustice, epistemological oppression, and exclusion. These mechanisms are historically inscribed in the designs, practices, and content of higher education-including in occupational therapy curriculum. If these historical markers are not consciously interrogated, patterns of reproduction are reified along the fault lines that already exist in society. The focus of this article is to demons…
Linking Paradigms and Methodologies in a Qualitative Case Study Focused On Exploring the Operation of Power in Human Actions During the Design of a New Occupational Therapy Intervention
A research paradigm represents how a researcher views the nature of reality and guides how they engage in research to generate knowledge from that reality. Power is a construct that impacts on the individual actions of the researcher and the participants, and their interactions with each other, across a range of perspectives of reality. Qualitative researchers select different paradigmatic stances to represent how they consider and work with the …
Decolonizing knowledge within and beyond the classroom
This introduction to the second installment of a two-part special issue focuses on actors and spaces that facilitate different forms of progress or push-back in decolonizing African Studies. We map how student activists have served as agents of decolonial change on campuses over time, and argue that intersectional and feminist leadership characterize the current generation of activism. We then explore how classrooms and curricula serve as sites o…
Decolonizing African Studies
In this introduction to the special issue on decolonizing African Studies, we discuss some of the epicolonial dynamics that characterize much of higher education and knowledge production in, of, with, and for Africa. Decolonizing, we argue, is best understood as a verb that entails a political and normative ethic and practice of resistance and intentional undoing – unlearning and dismantling unjust practices, assumptions, and institutions – as we…
Case Study and Narrative Inquiry as Merged Methodologies
Case study and narrative inquiry as merged methodological frameworks can make a vital contribution that seeks to understand processes that may explain current realities within professions and broader society. This article offers an explanation of how a critical perspective on case study and narrative inquiry as an embedded methodology unearthed the interplay between structure and agency within storied lives. This case narrative emerged out of a d…
Terminología ocupacional
Por conciencia ocupacional se entiende la conciencia permanente de las dinámicas de hegemonía y el reconocimiento de que las prácticas dominantes se sustentan en las actividades cotidianas de la gente, las que tienen consecuencias para la salud tanto personal como colectiva. El surgimiento del constructo en la Sudáfrica post apartheid da cuenta de la lucha permanente del país con la negociación de una dinámica histórica de poder que se estableció…
Professional role transgression as a form of occupational consciousness
The paper offers an introduction to an emerging construct, professional role transgression, which is theorised as a form of occupational consciousness, an occupational science construct. Professional role transgression provide insights on how individuals respond to oppressive structures within professional spaces. The construct emerged from a study that explored how occupational therapists navigate professional role transitions within specialised…
Occupational Consciousness
Occupational consciousness refers to ongoing awareness of the dynamics of hegemony and recognition that dominant practices are sustained through what people do every day, with implications for personal and collective health. The emergence of the construct in post-apartheid South Africa signifies the country's ongoing struggle with negotiating long-standing dynamics of power that were laid down during colonialism, and maintained under black majori…
Violence and Healing
The effects of violence on the person are extensive, more so, for persons disabled through violence. Research in occupational therapy has shown the effectiveness of occupations in helping displaced refugees to construct new identities and navigate new ways of belonging within asylum countries. No research thus far has focussed on the role of occupation for healing in contexts of sustained violence. Aim: To explore the role of occupations in the h…
Explaining Collective Occupations from a Human Relations Perspective
A core proposition in this paper is that central to occupations that individuals, groups, communities and societies engage in, is the intentionality behind them. While occupation as a construct has been explored in detail in both occupational science and occupational therapy literature, there has been insufficient attention paid to what drives collective human engagement. In addition, the recent emphasis on socio-cultural perspectives of occupati…
Intergenerational Play within Family
This study of changes in children's play across three generations of one South African family challenges assumptions about the agency adults and children hold in orchestrating what becomes of play from one generation to the next, in the context of mainly exogenous and rapid social change. The portrayal of adults and children as dialectically opposed to each other in relation to play is also addressed. By tracking children's play across time, the …
Occupational Consciousness
Occupational consciousness refers to ongoing awareness of the dynamics of hegemony and recognition that dominant practices are sustained through what people do every day, with implications for personal and collective health. The emergence of the construct in post-apartheid South Africa signifies the country's ongoing struggle with negotiating long-standing dynamics of power that were laid down during colonialism, and maintained under black majori…
Decolonizing African Studies
In this introduction to the special issue on decolonizing African Studies, we discuss some of the epicolonial dynamics that characterize much of higher education and knowledge production in, of, with, and for Africa. Decolonizing, we argue, is best understood as a verb that entails a political and normative ethic and practice of resistance and intentional undoing – unlearning and dismantling unjust practices, assumptions, and institutions – as we…
Explaining Collective Occupations from a Human Relations Perspective
A core proposition in this paper is that central to occupations that individuals, groups, communities and societies engage in, is the intentionality behind them. While occupation as a construct has been explored in detail in both occupational science and occupational therapy literature, there has been insufficient attention paid to what drives collective human engagement. In addition, the recent emphasis on socio-cultural perspectives of occupati…
Case Study and Narrative Inquiry as Merged Methodologies
Case study and narrative inquiry as merged methodological frameworks can make a vital contribution that seeks to understand processes that may explain current realities within professions and broader society. This article offers an explanation of how a critical perspective on case study and narrative inquiry as an embedded methodology unearthed the interplay between structure and agency within storied lives. This case narrative emerged out of a d…
Intergenerational Play within Family
This study of changes in children's play across three generations of one South African family challenges assumptions about the agency adults and children hold in orchestrating what becomes of play from one generation to the next, in the context of mainly exogenous and rapid social change. The portrayal of adults and children as dialectically opposed to each other in relation to play is also addressed. By tracking children's play across time, the …
Occupational consciousness
Professional role transgression as a form of occupational consciousness
The paper offers an introduction to an emerging construct, professional role transgression, which is theorised as a form of occupational consciousness, an occupational science construct. Professional role transgression provide insights on how individuals respond to oppressive structures within professional spaces. The construct emerged from a study that explored how occupational therapists navigate professional role transitions within specialised…
Crafting a Foucauldian Archaeology Method
South Africa has a colonial and apartheid past of social injustice, epistemological oppression, and exclusion. These mechanisms are historically inscribed in the designs, practices, and content of higher education-including in occupational therapy curriculum. If these historical markers are not consciously interrogated, patterns of reproduction are reified along the fault lines that already exist in society. The focus of this article is to demons…
Decolonizing knowledge within and beyond the classroom
This introduction to the second installment of a two-part special issue focuses on actors and spaces that facilitate different forms of progress or push-back in decolonizing African Studies. We map how student activists have served as agents of decolonial change on campuses over time, and argue that intersectional and feminist leadership characterize the current generation of activism. We then explore how classrooms and curricula serve as sites o…
Violence and Healing
The effects of violence on the person are extensive, more so, for persons disabled through violence. Research in occupational therapy has shown the effectiveness of occupations in helping displaced refugees to construct new identities and navigate new ways of belonging within asylum countries. No research thus far has focussed on the role of occupation for healing in contexts of sustained violence. Aim: To explore the role of occupations in the h…
Intergenerational Play within Family
This study of changes in children's play across three generations of one South African family challenges assumptions about the agency adults and children hold in orchestrating what becomes of play from one generation to the next, in the context of mainly exogenous and rapid social change. The portrayal of adults and children as dialectically opposed to each other in relation to play is also addressed. By tracking children's play across time, the …
Explaining Collective Occupations from a Human Relations Perspective
A core proposition in this paper is that central to occupations that individuals, groups, communities and societies engage in, is the intentionality behind them. While occupation as a construct has been explored in detail in both occupational science and occupational therapy literature, there has been insufficient attention paid to what drives collective human engagement. In addition, the recent emphasis on socio-cultural perspectives of occupati…
Violence and Healing
The effects of violence on the person are extensive, more so, for persons disabled through violence. Research in occupational therapy has shown the effectiveness of occupations in helping displaced refugees to construct new identities and navigate new ways of belonging within asylum countries. No research thus far has focussed on the role of occupation for healing in contexts of sustained violence. Aim: To explore the role of occupations in the h…
Occupational Consciousness
Occupational consciousness refers to ongoing awareness of the dynamics of hegemony and recognition that dominant practices are sustained through what people do every day, with implications for personal and collective health. The emergence of the construct in post-apartheid South Africa signifies the country's ongoing struggle with negotiating long-standing dynamics of power that were laid down during colonialism, and maintained under black majori…
Terminología ocupacional
Por conciencia ocupacional se entiende la conciencia permanente de las dinámicas de hegemonía y el reconocimiento de que las prácticas dominantes se sustentan en las actividades cotidianas de la gente, las que tienen consecuencias para la salud tanto personal como colectiva. El surgimiento del constructo en la Sudáfrica post apartheid da cuenta de la lucha permanente del país con la negociación de una dinámica histórica de poder que se estableció…
Professional role transgression as a form of occupational consciousness
The paper offers an introduction to an emerging construct, professional role transgression, which is theorised as a form of occupational consciousness, an occupational science construct. Professional role transgression provide insights on how individuals respond to oppressive structures within professional spaces. The construct emerged from a study that explored how occupational therapists navigate professional role transitions within specialised…
Decolonizing African Studies
In this introduction to the special issue on decolonizing African Studies, we discuss some of the epicolonial dynamics that characterize much of higher education and knowledge production in, of, with, and for Africa. Decolonizing, we argue, is best understood as a verb that entails a political and normative ethic and practice of resistance and intentional undoing – unlearning and dismantling unjust practices, assumptions, and institutions – as we…
Case Study and Narrative Inquiry as Merged Methodologies
Case study and narrative inquiry as merged methodological frameworks can make a vital contribution that seeks to understand processes that may explain current realities within professions and broader society. This article offers an explanation of how a critical perspective on case study and narrative inquiry as an embedded methodology unearthed the interplay between structure and agency within storied lives. This case narrative emerged out of a d…
Decolonizing knowledge within and beyond the classroom
This introduction to the second installment of a two-part special issue focuses on actors and spaces that facilitate different forms of progress or push-back in decolonizing African Studies. We map how student activists have served as agents of decolonial change on campuses over time, and argue that intersectional and feminist leadership characterize the current generation of activism. We then explore how classrooms and curricula serve as sites o…
Crafting a Foucauldian Archaeology Method
South Africa has a colonial and apartheid past of social injustice, epistemological oppression, and exclusion. These mechanisms are historically inscribed in the designs, practices, and content of higher education-including in occupational therapy curriculum. If these historical markers are not consciously interrogated, patterns of reproduction are reified along the fault lines that already exist in society. The focus of this article is to demons…
Linking Paradigms and Methodologies in a Qualitative Case Study Focused On Exploring the Operation of Power in Human Actions During the Design of a New Occupational Therapy Intervention
A research paradigm represents how a researcher views the nature of reality and guides how they engage in research to generate knowledge from that reality. Power is a construct that impacts on the individual actions of the researcher and the participants, and their interactions with each other, across a range of perspectives of reality. Qualitative researchers select different paradigmatic stances to represent how they consider and work with the …
Understanding ‘violence’ within protest
There is a dearth of research in occupational science towards understanding 'violence' within the context of protest, including why and how these two phenomena occur in and of each other and why both are characteristic of Post-Apartheid South Africa. This gap in knowledge is particularly concerning as both the profession of occupational therapy and the discipline of occupational science are concerned with human occupation as a means of analysing …
Occupational consciousness
Sociology (12 works) · Occupational Therapy (8 works) · Occupational Therapy Practice and Research (8 works) · Psychology (8 works) · Occupational science (7 works) · Political science (6 works) · Social Psychology (5 works) · Social Psychology (5 works) · Innovative Education and Learning Practices (4 works) · Politics (4 works)