Phoebe Kisubi Mbasalaki
Biographic Data
| ID | 342982 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Phoebe Kisubi Mbasalaki |
| GIVEN NAMES | Phoebe Kisubi |
| FAMILY NAME | Mbasalaki |
| SIGNATURE | MBASALAKI P K |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Essex |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-2538-8198 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 5 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 8 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
A Taste of Humbleness
In this chapter, we analyse a collaboration between engaged scholars and LGBTQI+ forced migrants in Johannesburg, mediated by food practices. We focus on the Chakalaka Sessions, a series of brunch gatherings co-created by Thomars Shamuyarira, director of the forced migrant-led NGO The Fruit Basket, and researchers Miriam Ocadiz and Phoebe Kisubi Mbasalaki. The initiative aimed to enhance wellbeing, both individually and collectively, by nurturing…
Epilogue
Doing engaged scholarship is about constant juggling between engagement and detachment, the personal and the structural, the academic and the political, the center and the margin. It is about embracing the complexity of engaging with communities in a meaningful manner and yet having a precarious position within academic contexts. It is about choosing the insider-outsider position and venturing into social engagement to have an influence while pre…
Transformative Engaged Scholarship in Migration
Introduction
This chapter advances a comprehensive framework for transformative, critically engaged migration scholarship that responds to escalating global inequalities, anti-migration exclusions, and epistemic injustice. It traces how mainstream migration and refugee studies have long reproduced colonial, methodological nationalism and deficit-based representations of migrants and situates the rise of reflexive, justice-oriented scholarship as a necessary c…
Indigenous wisdoms and the decolonial efforts in migration studies in South Africa
In South Africa, where the legacies of colonialism and apartheid persist, decolonial approaches become increasingly imperative. Migration studies, in particular, has been challenged as a field historically linked to inequality and extractivist research practices. In response, scholars are seeking to re-center Indigenous knowledges that challenge Euro-American epistemologies. However, critiques warn of risks of appropriation and misuse, raising qu…
Un/doing ‘business’ in Cape Town
‘Business’ is the going professional terminology for sex work in South Africa. Often times it also doubles as a covert term due to the criminalised nature of sex work, on judicial and moral grounds, in South Africa. Yet sex work is a livelihood for bodies that have been placed outside the margins of the mainstream political economy; such bodies reside along margins of differentiation of race, gender, class and sexuality, produced through historie…
Forced Migrant Counter Cultural (Co)Productions
This article investigates the dynamics of knowledge co‐creation through the lens of documentary filmmaking with forced migrants in South Africa. Drawing on empirical research done in South Africa in 2022, both narration and the documentary film became potent modes of knowledge co‐production, illuminating how cultural productions contribute to shaping our understanding of forced migration and its associated challenges. Emphasising the prevalence o…
Butoh gives back the feeling to the people”
Our title is a quote from one of the sex workers. She is a member of the Sex Workers’ Theatre Group (SWTG) who made this statement after intense sessions on butoh that lasted three hours each over a period of four days. The SWTG is part of a project that investigates gender and cultures of (in)equality, working with theatre and performance as the main methodological approach. Noting the health of sex workers, physical and emotional − in a legally…
Through The Lens of Modernity
This article is a contribution to the conversation on what lies at the crux of the contradiction of South Africa's progressive constitution and legal framework with reference to sexuality and limited access of the rights these convey for a vast number of people in same-sex relationships. This article locates what lies at the heart of this contradiction as rooted in the (colonial) cultural archive of gender and sexuality that has historically priv…
Through The Lens of Modernity
This article is a contribution to the conversation on what lies at the crux of the contradiction of South Africa's progressive constitution and legal framework with reference to sexuality and limited access of the rights these convey for a vast number of people in same-sex relationships. This article locates what lies at the heart of this contradiction as rooted in the (colonial) cultural archive of gender and sexuality that has historically priv…
Forced Migrant Counter Cultural (Co)Productions
This article investigates the dynamics of knowledge co‐creation through the lens of documentary filmmaking with forced migrants in South Africa. Drawing on empirical research done in South Africa in 2022, both narration and the documentary film became potent modes of knowledge co‐production, illuminating how cultural productions contribute to shaping our understanding of forced migration and its associated challenges. Emphasising the prevalence o…
Butoh gives back the feeling to the people”
Our title is a quote from one of the sex workers. She is a member of the Sex Workers’ Theatre Group (SWTG) who made this statement after intense sessions on butoh that lasted three hours each over a period of four days. The SWTG is part of a project that investigates gender and cultures of (in)equality, working with theatre and performance as the main methodological approach. Noting the health of sex workers, physical and emotional − in a legally…
Butoh gives back the feeling to the people”
Our title is a quote from one of the sex workers. She is a member of the Sex Workers’ Theatre Group (SWTG) who made this statement after intense sessions on butoh that lasted three hours each over a period of four days. The SWTG is part of a project that investigates gender and cultures of (in)equality, working with theatre and performance as the main methodological approach. Noting the health of sex workers, physical and emotional − in a legally…
Through The Lens of Modernity
This article is a contribution to the conversation on what lies at the crux of the contradiction of South Africa's progressive constitution and legal framework with reference to sexuality and limited access of the rights these convey for a vast number of people in same-sex relationships. This article locates what lies at the heart of this contradiction as rooted in the (colonial) cultural archive of gender and sexuality that has historically priv…
Forced Migrant Counter Cultural (Co)Productions
This article investigates the dynamics of knowledge co‐creation through the lens of documentary filmmaking with forced migrants in South Africa. Drawing on empirical research done in South Africa in 2022, both narration and the documentary film became potent modes of knowledge co‐production, illuminating how cultural productions contribute to shaping our understanding of forced migration and its associated challenges. Emphasising the prevalence o…
Un/doing ‘business’ in Cape Town
‘Business’ is the going professional terminology for sex work in South Africa. Often times it also doubles as a covert term due to the criminalised nature of sex work, on judicial and moral grounds, in South Africa. Yet sex work is a livelihood for bodies that have been placed outside the margins of the mainstream political economy; such bodies reside along margins of differentiation of race, gender, class and sexuality, produced through historie…
A Taste of Humbleness
In this chapter, we analyse a collaboration between engaged scholars and LGBTQI+ forced migrants in Johannesburg, mediated by food practices. We focus on the Chakalaka Sessions, a series of brunch gatherings co-created by Thomars Shamuyarira, director of the forced migrant-led NGO The Fruit Basket, and researchers Miriam Ocadiz and Phoebe Kisubi Mbasalaki. The initiative aimed to enhance wellbeing, both individually and collectively, by nurturing…
Epilogue
Doing engaged scholarship is about constant juggling between engagement and detachment, the personal and the structural, the academic and the political, the center and the margin. It is about embracing the complexity of engaging with communities in a meaningful manner and yet having a precarious position within academic contexts. It is about choosing the insider-outsider position and venturing into social engagement to have an influence while pre…
Transformative Engaged Scholarship in Migration
Introduction
This chapter advances a comprehensive framework for transformative, critically engaged migration scholarship that responds to escalating global inequalities, anti-migration exclusions, and epistemic injustice. It traces how mainstream migration and refugee studies have long reproduced colonial, methodological nationalism and deficit-based representations of migrants and situates the rise of reflexive, justice-oriented scholarship as a necessary c…
Indigenous wisdoms and the decolonial efforts in migration studies in South Africa
In South Africa, where the legacies of colonialism and apartheid persist, decolonial approaches become increasingly imperative. Migration studies, in particular, has been challenged as a field historically linked to inequality and extractivist research practices. In response, scholars are seeking to re-center Indigenous knowledges that challenge Euro-American epistemologies. However, critiques warn of risks of appropriation and misuse, raising qu…
Gender Studies (4 works) · Gender Studies (4 works) · Sociology (4 works) · Narrative (3 works) · African Sexualities and LGBTQ+ Issues (2 works) · Art (2 works) · Colonialism (2 works) · Foregrounding (2 works) · Indigenous (2 works) · Law (2 works)