Rajendra Chetty
Biographic Data
| ID | 4120891 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Rajendra Chetty |
| GIVEN NAMES | Rajendra |
| FAMILY NAME | Chetty |
| SIGNATURE | CHETTY R |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of the Western Cape |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-4219-6932 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 16 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 27 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 15 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2009 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Delinking stigma and vulnerability: HIV/Aids, South African Women and epistemic solidarity through literary narrative
Eleanor Krassen Covan and Dr. Elizabeth Fugate-Whitlock for their kind support and assistance throughout the whole process.Disclosure statementNo potential conflict of interest was reported by the author(s).Additional informationFundingThe authors received financial support for the research, authorship, and/or publication of this article from the National Research Foundation of South Africa and from the University of the Western Cape’s UCDG progr…
Extraction and Environmental Injustices: (De)colonial Practices in Imbolo Mbue’s How Beautiful We Were
Environmental degradation, climate crises, and ecological catastrophes effect the countries of the tropics distinctly from those of the Global North, reflecting the ramifications of colonial capitalist epistemes and practices that sanction extraction, commodification, and control of tropical lands and peoples. Imbolo Mbue’s How Beautiful We Were (2021), set in the fictional African village of Kosawa, bears witness to the history and presence of e…
Tackling Environmental and Epistemic Injustice: Decolonial Approaches for Pluriversal Peacebuilding in South Africa
The paper highlights environmental injustices in South Africa as well as the accompanying continuation of mega-extraction-based violence. In doing so, the paper examines how the history of environmental injustices has left its mark in various parts of this country, where industrialization practices and policies from the apartheid era lead to environmental degradation that disproportionately impacts black people. This exemplifies how epistemic inj…
Cognitive (In)justice and Decoloniality in Amitav Ghosh’s The Nutmeg’s Curse
Amitav Ghosh’s The Nutmeg’s Curse (2021) is an insightful deliberation on the layered inequities and asymmetries created by the intersection of colonialism and anthropogenic activities. In The Nutmeg’s Curse , Ghosh conceives the present-day climate and ecological crisis as fallouts of colonial thinking and its manifestations in dominant epistemic and ethical constructions. This article underscores Ghosh’s critique of the Eurocentric discourses f…
Delinking the Capitalist Episteme: Empathy and the Decolonial Turn in Amitav Ghosh’s Jungle Nama
Amitav Ghosh's Jungle Nama: A Story of the Sundarban (2021), a graphic verse, is a symbolic depiction of the repercussions of the capitalist episteme that sanctions resource extraction, ecological commodification, and anthropogenic activities. Set in the Sundarbans, the largest mangrove delta, Jungle Nama illustrates a confrontation between Dhona, an avaricious merchant who wants to extract and plunder the forest resources, and Bon Bibi, the godd…
Episteme and Ecology: Amitav Ghosh’s The Living Mountain and the Decolonial Turn
Amitav Ghosh's The Living Mountain: A Fable of Our Times (2022) is an allegorical rendering of the repercussions of environmental degradation and the annihilation of indigenous ecological knowledge. As one of the notable public intellectuals of contemporary times, Ghosh in The Living Mountain deliberates on the ramifications of the discourses of colonialism and the Anthropocene, and depicts how those have been complicit in asserting a hegemonic W…
Drawing a line in the sand: Social mapping of responses to calls to ‘decolonise the university’
The task of decolonisation is convoluted as the complexities of meanings as well as the multiple dimensions of decolonisation are vast and textured, depending on one’s vantage point and vested interests. This situation warrants a critical examination of what decolonisation has come to mean in the global South and how different subjectivities at a particular academic institution in the country are responding to the call for change. The academic, s…
Translanguaging strategies in multimodality and audiovisual translation
Translanguaging practices are firmly embedded in South African communication practices given the country’s high levels of linguistic diversity. This approach represents a challenge to the institutional and educational system in the current decolonial discourse where English serves as the dominant language. The critical analysis of the relationship between translanguaging and translation resonates with recent studies in the domain of applied lingu…
A Decolonial Reading of Ronnie Govender’s “Over My Dead Body”
This article discusses the contribution of Ronnie Govender, a South African writer, to build decolonial sensibilities and delink from the grand narrative of the colonial literary landscape in the short story “Over My Dead Body”. Govender uses the world of art to make a decolonial statement. Decolonial artists work in the entanglement of power and engage with a border epistemology, those in the margins, the wretched of the earth. “Over My Dead Bod…
A Youth Counter-Narrative on Trafficking and Smuggling from Africa to Europe
This article features the personal experiences of a young African woman victim of trafficking and smuggling from Nigeria to Italy. The aim of the article is to provide a counter-narrative on the phenomenon of human trafficking, by engaging with the youth’s lived experiences. The story forms part of a wider database of youth counter-narratives, gathered by the authors in different parts of the world (Italy, South Africa, and Ethiopia). The narrati…
Deaf to women: Rhodes’s refusal to hear women or his own feminine voice within – a reading of Schreiner’s Trooper Peter Halket of Mashonaland
E.D. Morel’s chapter, ‘The story of Southern Rhodesia’, in his signal text The black man’s burden (1920), provides intertextual reference to Olive Schreiner’s work Trooper Peter Halket of Mashonaland (1897) in discussing libertarian thought and distinguishing aspects of male/female authorship. Schreiner’s feminist perspective affords her a wider purview of colonialist prerogatives than those exhibited by several contemporary male observers or com…
The Marikana Massacre: Insurgency and Counter-Insurgency in South Africa
Communography in Phyllis Naidoo's “Charlie and Jo”
Phyllis Naidoo's Footprints beyond Grey Street (2007) adjusts conventional boundaries of the autobiographical genre: it is written by Naidoo but appears not to be principally concerned with the author's life. It is written largely about her comrades in the African National Congress who were in exile in African countries. Of the stories in Naidoo's “autobiography”, “Charlie and Jo” in particular epitomises the absence of the author: a stylistic an…
Class dismissed? Youth resistance and the politics of race and class in South African education
Informed by the writings of the Frankfurt school and critical pedagogy, this article is a reflective piece on the engagement with the race and class debate in South African education. The article opens with the recent stampede to gain access to a university as a backdrop for an interrogation of the notions of race and class in both higher and basic education. Thereafter, the article highlights how universities and schools reproduce social and eco…
Trauma, Resistance, Reconstruction in Post-1994 South African Writing
The re-conceptualization of South Africa as a democracy in 1994 has influenced the production and reception of texts in this nation and around the globe. The literature emerging after 1994 provides a vision for reconciling the fragmented past produced by the brutality of apartheid policies and consequently shifting social relations from a traumatized past to a reconstructed future. The purpose of the essays in this anthology is to explore, within…
The scholarship of research in teacher education in a higher education institution in transition: Issues of identity
Extraction and Environmental Injustices: (De)colonial Practices in Imbolo Mbue’s How Beautiful We Were
Environmental degradation, climate crises, and ecological catastrophes effect the countries of the tropics distinctly from those of the Global North, reflecting the ramifications of colonial capitalist epistemes and practices that sanction extraction, commodification, and control of tropical lands and peoples. Imbolo Mbue’s How Beautiful We Were (2021), set in the fictional African village of Kosawa, bears witness to the history and presence of e…
Tackling Environmental and Epistemic Injustice: Decolonial Approaches for Pluriversal Peacebuilding in South Africa
The paper highlights environmental injustices in South Africa as well as the accompanying continuation of mega-extraction-based violence. In doing so, the paper examines how the history of environmental injustices has left its mark in various parts of this country, where industrialization practices and policies from the apartheid era lead to environmental degradation that disproportionately impacts black people. This exemplifies how epistemic inj…
Cognitive (In)justice and Decoloniality in Amitav Ghosh’s The Nutmeg’s Curse
Amitav Ghosh’s The Nutmeg’s Curse (2021) is an insightful deliberation on the layered inequities and asymmetries created by the intersection of colonialism and anthropogenic activities. In The Nutmeg’s Curse , Ghosh conceives the present-day climate and ecological crisis as fallouts of colonial thinking and its manifestations in dominant epistemic and ethical constructions. This article underscores Ghosh’s critique of the Eurocentric discourses f…
Delinking the Capitalist Episteme: Empathy and the Decolonial Turn in Amitav Ghosh’s Jungle Nama
Amitav Ghosh's Jungle Nama: A Story of the Sundarban (2021), a graphic verse, is a symbolic depiction of the repercussions of the capitalist episteme that sanctions resource extraction, ecological commodification, and anthropogenic activities. Set in the Sundarbans, the largest mangrove delta, Jungle Nama illustrates a confrontation between Dhona, an avaricious merchant who wants to extract and plunder the forest resources, and Bon Bibi, the godd…
Episteme and Ecology: Amitav Ghosh’s The Living Mountain and the Decolonial Turn
Amitav Ghosh's The Living Mountain: A Fable of Our Times (2022) is an allegorical rendering of the repercussions of environmental degradation and the annihilation of indigenous ecological knowledge. As one of the notable public intellectuals of contemporary times, Ghosh in The Living Mountain deliberates on the ramifications of the discourses of colonialism and the Anthropocene, and depicts how those have been complicit in asserting a hegemonic W…
The scholarship of research in teacher education in a higher education institution in transition: Issues of identity
Class dismissed? Youth resistance and the politics of race and class in South African education
Informed by the writings of the Frankfurt school and critical pedagogy, this article is a reflective piece on the engagement with the race and class debate in South African education. The article opens with the recent stampede to gain access to a university as a backdrop for an interrogation of the notions of race and class in both higher and basic education. Thereafter, the article highlights how universities and schools reproduce social and eco…
The scholarship of research in teacher education in a higher education institution in transition: Issues of identity
Trauma, Resistance, Reconstruction in Post-1994 South African Writing
The re-conceptualization of South Africa as a democracy in 1994 has influenced the production and reception of texts in this nation and around the globe. The literature emerging after 1994 provides a vision for reconciling the fragmented past produced by the brutality of apartheid policies and consequently shifting social relations from a traumatized past to a reconstructed future. The purpose of the essays in this anthology is to explore, within…
Class dismissed? Youth resistance and the politics of race and class in South African education
Informed by the writings of the Frankfurt school and critical pedagogy, this article is a reflective piece on the engagement with the race and class debate in South African education. The article opens with the recent stampede to gain access to a university as a backdrop for an interrogation of the notions of race and class in both higher and basic education. Thereafter, the article highlights how universities and schools reproduce social and eco…
Communography in Phyllis Naidoo's “Charlie and Jo”
Phyllis Naidoo's Footprints beyond Grey Street (2007) adjusts conventional boundaries of the autobiographical genre: it is written by Naidoo but appears not to be principally concerned with the author's life. It is written largely about her comrades in the African National Congress who were in exile in African countries. Of the stories in Naidoo's “autobiography”, “Charlie and Jo” in particular epitomises the absence of the author: a stylistic an…
Deaf to women: Rhodes’s refusal to hear women or his own feminine voice within – a reading of Schreiner’s Trooper Peter Halket of Mashonaland
E.D. Morel’s chapter, ‘The story of Southern Rhodesia’, in his signal text The black man’s burden (1920), provides intertextual reference to Olive Schreiner’s work Trooper Peter Halket of Mashonaland (1897) in discussing libertarian thought and distinguishing aspects of male/female authorship. Schreiner’s feminist perspective affords her a wider purview of colonialist prerogatives than those exhibited by several contemporary male observers or com…
The Marikana Massacre: Insurgency and Counter-Insurgency in South Africa
A Youth Counter-Narrative on Trafficking and Smuggling from Africa to Europe
This article features the personal experiences of a young African woman victim of trafficking and smuggling from Nigeria to Italy. The aim of the article is to provide a counter-narrative on the phenomenon of human trafficking, by engaging with the youth’s lived experiences. The story forms part of a wider database of youth counter-narratives, gathered by the authors in different parts of the world (Italy, South Africa, and Ethiopia). The narrati…
A Decolonial Reading of Ronnie Govender’s “Over My Dead Body”
This article discusses the contribution of Ronnie Govender, a South African writer, to build decolonial sensibilities and delink from the grand narrative of the colonial literary landscape in the short story “Over My Dead Body”. Govender uses the world of art to make a decolonial statement. Decolonial artists work in the entanglement of power and engage with a border epistemology, those in the margins, the wretched of the earth. “Over My Dead Bod…
Drawing a line in the sand: Social mapping of responses to calls to ‘decolonise the university’
The task of decolonisation is convoluted as the complexities of meanings as well as the multiple dimensions of decolonisation are vast and textured, depending on one’s vantage point and vested interests. This situation warrants a critical examination of what decolonisation has come to mean in the global South and how different subjectivities at a particular academic institution in the country are responding to the call for change. The academic, s…
Translanguaging strategies in multimodality and audiovisual translation
Translanguaging practices are firmly embedded in South African communication practices given the country’s high levels of linguistic diversity. This approach represents a challenge to the institutional and educational system in the current decolonial discourse where English serves as the dominant language. The critical analysis of the relationship between translanguaging and translation resonates with recent studies in the domain of applied lingu…
Delinking stigma and vulnerability: HIV/Aids, South African Women and epistemic solidarity through literary narrative
Eleanor Krassen Covan and Dr. Elizabeth Fugate-Whitlock for their kind support and assistance throughout the whole process.Disclosure statementNo potential conflict of interest was reported by the author(s).Additional informationFundingThe authors received financial support for the research, authorship, and/or publication of this article from the National Research Foundation of South Africa and from the University of the Western Cape’s UCDG progr…
Extraction and Environmental Injustices: (De)colonial Practices in Imbolo Mbue’s How Beautiful We Were
Environmental degradation, climate crises, and ecological catastrophes effect the countries of the tropics distinctly from those of the Global North, reflecting the ramifications of colonial capitalist epistemes and practices that sanction extraction, commodification, and control of tropical lands and peoples. Imbolo Mbue’s How Beautiful We Were (2021), set in the fictional African village of Kosawa, bears witness to the history and presence of e…
Tackling Environmental and Epistemic Injustice: Decolonial Approaches for Pluriversal Peacebuilding in South Africa
The paper highlights environmental injustices in South Africa as well as the accompanying continuation of mega-extraction-based violence. In doing so, the paper examines how the history of environmental injustices has left its mark in various parts of this country, where industrialization practices and policies from the apartheid era lead to environmental degradation that disproportionately impacts black people. This exemplifies how epistemic inj…
Cognitive (In)justice and Decoloniality in Amitav Ghosh’s The Nutmeg’s Curse
Amitav Ghosh’s The Nutmeg’s Curse (2021) is an insightful deliberation on the layered inequities and asymmetries created by the intersection of colonialism and anthropogenic activities. In The Nutmeg’s Curse , Ghosh conceives the present-day climate and ecological crisis as fallouts of colonial thinking and its manifestations in dominant epistemic and ethical constructions. This article underscores Ghosh’s critique of the Eurocentric discourses f…
Delinking the Capitalist Episteme: Empathy and the Decolonial Turn in Amitav Ghosh’s Jungle Nama
Amitav Ghosh's Jungle Nama: A Story of the Sundarban (2021), a graphic verse, is a symbolic depiction of the repercussions of the capitalist episteme that sanctions resource extraction, ecological commodification, and anthropogenic activities. Set in the Sundarbans, the largest mangrove delta, Jungle Nama illustrates a confrontation between Dhona, an avaricious merchant who wants to extract and plunder the forest resources, and Bon Bibi, the godd…
Episteme and Ecology: Amitav Ghosh’s The Living Mountain and the Decolonial Turn
Amitav Ghosh's The Living Mountain: A Fable of Our Times (2022) is an allegorical rendering of the repercussions of environmental degradation and the annihilation of indigenous ecological knowledge. As one of the notable public intellectuals of contemporary times, Ghosh in The Living Mountain deliberates on the ramifications of the discourses of colonialism and the Anthropocene, and depicts how those have been complicit in asserting a hegemonic W…
Sociology (15 works) · Political science (12 works) · Law (11 works) · Gender Studies (7 works) · Philosophy (7 works) · Law (6 works) · Politics (6 works) · Aesthetics (5 works) · Art (5 works) · Environmental ethics (5 works)