Ronelle Carolissen
Biographic Data
| ID | 5380863 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Ronelle Carolissen |
| GIVEN NAMES | Ronelle |
| FAMILY NAME | Carolissen |
| SIGNATURE | CAROLISSEN R |
| AFFILIATIONS | Stellenbosch University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-7113-0246 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 17 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 60 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 17 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2006 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Toward a decolonial psychology
Because colonialism was tailored to local geographies, any vision of decolonial psychology also needs to address the legacies of particular colonial histories. One of the central questions addressed in this special issue, "Toward a Decolonial Psychology: Recentering and Reclaiming Global Marginalized Knowledges," is what it means to create possible futures that are rooted in Indigenous cultures, place, people, and land and disentangled from colon…
I just want to get my degree and leave’
Literature abounds with Black male students' accounts of racialised and gendered experiences at university, especially at historically white institutions (HWI). This research is typically geospatially located in the Global North with sparse attention paid to Black men's experiences at HWIs in the Global South. We therefore explored Black male students' psychosocial experiences at a South African historically white campus. Our qualitative study, i…
Metaphor drawing as decolonial research and feminist care among Black women academics in selected South African higher education institutions in times of crises
The global COVID-19 pandemic and devastating floods in parts of Southern Africa in 2022 intensified the competing gender role expectations for women academics in the home and workplace, with negative consequences on their effective participation and success in their institutions. This article explores the value of participatory visual methodology generally, and metaphor drawing as feminist decolonial praxis and a research as social change approac…
Feminist decoloniality as care in higher education
The global development of community psychology as reflected in the American Journal of Community Psychology
This commentary presents a virtual special issue on the global growth of community psychology (CP), particularly, but not exclusively, as reflected in the American Journal of Community Psychology (AJCP) . CP exists in at least 50 countries all over the world, in many of those for over 25 years. Yet, aside from several early Israeli articles, AJCP rarely published work from or about countries outside the US and Canada until the early 2000s, when t…
Volunteer leadership
Despite the growing interest in student volunteerism, few students volunteer, and volunteer organisations struggle to retain those who do. We explore motivating factors, expectations, and demotivating factors as they relate to retention in student volunteerism Participants were selected from six volunteer projects associated with three South African universities in the Western Cape region. Seventy active volunteers ( N = 70) responded to four ope…
Productive faces of shame
Shame has typically been understood as a negative emotion, a view which is prevalent in individualist, psychologising discourses about human experience. Elspeth Probyn's approach to shame departs significantly from these tropes. As interviewers, we share a common interest in feminist ethics and productive affects in teaching and scholarship. Hence, our specific interest in Probyn's Blush: Faces of Shame. Blush is an excellent example of viewing t…
A politics of shame
Epistemological resistance towards diversality
In contexts of political instability and change, the value of disciplinary knowledges and the processes that constituted them is often questioned. Psychology is not exempt from this process. Little South African work has illustrated what teaching for decoloniality may mean in South African psychology. We draw on examples of curriculum design in community psychology from the Universities of the Witwatersrand, South Africa and Stellenbosch, three l…
Addressing dualisms in student perceptions of a historically white and black university in South Africa
Normative discourses about higher education institutions may perpetuate stereotypes about institutions. Few studies explore student perceptions of universities and how transformative pedagogical interventions in university classrooms may address institutional stereotypes. Using Plumwood’s notion of dualism, this qualitative study analyses unchallenged stereotypes about students’ own and another university during an inter-institutional collaborati…
They just block it out”
Belonging” as a Theoretical Framework for the Study of Psychology and Globalization
This article argues that given the pernicious ways in which processes of globalization may be counter‐transformative for psychology as a discipline, it is important to consider which preventative mechanisms could be employed to engage psychological understandings of globalization in socially just and transformative ways. The notion of “belonging” as theoretical framework for the study of globalization in psychology will be discussed in the contex…
Ah, but the whiteys love to talk about themselves’
This article reports on an interdisciplinary and collaborative educational module prepared for fourth‐year Psychology and Social Work students at two higher education institutions in the Western Cape, South Africa. The aim of the module was to provide students with the opportunity to experience learning across the boundaries of institution, discipline, language, race and class, and to provide the team with data to enhance understanding of how stu…
Removing the Splinters from Our Own Eyes
Communities isn't just about trees and shops”
The question of what constitutes ‘a community’ or even ‘ the community’ takes on an extra salience in a divided society such as South Africa where the entire environment remains imprinted with the legacy of enforced segregation along racial lines. Higher education institutions need to prepare emerging health and social service students for the world of practice in a context of diversity, continuing segregation and marked inequality. As one step t…
It Doesn't Matter Who or What We are, We are Still Just People’
South Africa, after decades of apartheid, continues to be a highly segregated society. Higher education institutions need to prepare students for work in such a divided society. Recent work on inter-group contact has stressed the importance of taking into account people's interpretation and meanings about contact in particular contexts, and the need for contact to involve dialogue about socio-historical situations. This article reports on a colla…
Teaching Community Psychology into Obscurity
The terms “community” and “community psychology” need to be examined within the context of human diversity in order to understand the apparent marginalisation of community psychology in South Africa. Community psychology might be marginalized as the term “community” tends to be associated with black, poor individuals. Current teaching practices in community psychology in South Africa may unwittingly reinforce these stereotypes by having predomina…
Ah, but the whiteys love to talk about themselves’
This article reports on an interdisciplinary and collaborative educational module prepared for fourth‐year Psychology and Social Work students at two higher education institutions in the Western Cape, South Africa. The aim of the module was to provide students with the opportunity to experience learning across the boundaries of institution, discipline, language, race and class, and to provide the team with data to enhance understanding of how stu…
Epistemological resistance towards diversality
In contexts of political instability and change, the value of disciplinary knowledges and the processes that constituted them is often questioned. Psychology is not exempt from this process. Little South African work has illustrated what teaching for decoloniality may mean in South African psychology. We draw on examples of curriculum design in community psychology from the Universities of the Witwatersrand, South Africa and Stellenbosch, three l…
Productive faces of shame
Shame has typically been understood as a negative emotion, a view which is prevalent in individualist, psychologising discourses about human experience. Elspeth Probyn's approach to shame departs significantly from these tropes. As interviewers, we share a common interest in feminist ethics and productive affects in teaching and scholarship. Hence, our specific interest in Probyn's Blush: Faces of Shame. Blush is an excellent example of viewing t…
Belonging” as a Theoretical Framework for the Study of Psychology and Globalization
This article argues that given the pernicious ways in which processes of globalization may be counter‐transformative for psychology as a discipline, it is important to consider which preventative mechanisms could be employed to engage psychological understandings of globalization in socially just and transformative ways. The notion of “belonging” as theoretical framework for the study of globalization in psychology will be discussed in the contex…
Communities isn't just about trees and shops”
The question of what constitutes ‘a community’ or even ‘ the community’ takes on an extra salience in a divided society such as South Africa where the entire environment remains imprinted with the legacy of enforced segregation along racial lines. Higher education institutions need to prepare emerging health and social service students for the world of practice in a context of diversity, continuing segregation and marked inequality. As one step t…
The global development of community psychology as reflected in the American Journal of Community Psychology
This commentary presents a virtual special issue on the global growth of community psychology (CP), particularly, but not exclusively, as reflected in the American Journal of Community Psychology (AJCP) . CP exists in at least 50 countries all over the world, in many of those for over 25 years. Yet, aside from several early Israeli articles, AJCP rarely published work from or about countries outside the US and Canada until the early 2000s, when t…
Addressing dualisms in student perceptions of a historically white and black university in South Africa
Normative discourses about higher education institutions may perpetuate stereotypes about institutions. Few studies explore student perceptions of universities and how transformative pedagogical interventions in university classrooms may address institutional stereotypes. Using Plumwood’s notion of dualism, this qualitative study analyses unchallenged stereotypes about students’ own and another university during an inter-institutional collaborati…
They just block it out”
It Doesn't Matter Who or What We are, We are Still Just People’
South Africa, after decades of apartheid, continues to be a highly segregated society. Higher education institutions need to prepare students for work in such a divided society. Recent work on inter-group contact has stressed the importance of taking into account people's interpretation and meanings about contact in particular contexts, and the need for contact to involve dialogue about socio-historical situations. This article reports on a colla…
Removing the Splinters from Our Own Eyes
Teaching Community Psychology into Obscurity
The terms “community” and “community psychology” need to be examined within the context of human diversity in order to understand the apparent marginalisation of community psychology in South Africa. Community psychology might be marginalized as the term “community” tends to be associated with black, poor individuals. Current teaching practices in community psychology in South Africa may unwittingly reinforce these stereotypes by having predomina…
Communities isn't just about trees and shops”
The question of what constitutes ‘a community’ or even ‘ the community’ takes on an extra salience in a divided society such as South Africa where the entire environment remains imprinted with the legacy of enforced segregation along racial lines. Higher education institutions need to prepare emerging health and social service students for the world of practice in a context of diversity, continuing segregation and marked inequality. As one step t…
It Doesn't Matter Who or What We are, We are Still Just People’
South Africa, after decades of apartheid, continues to be a highly segregated society. Higher education institutions need to prepare students for work in such a divided society. Recent work on inter-group contact has stressed the importance of taking into account people's interpretation and meanings about contact in particular contexts, and the need for contact to involve dialogue about socio-historical situations. This article reports on a colla…
Removing the Splinters from Our Own Eyes
Ah, but the whiteys love to talk about themselves’
This article reports on an interdisciplinary and collaborative educational module prepared for fourth‐year Psychology and Social Work students at two higher education institutions in the Western Cape, South Africa. The aim of the module was to provide students with the opportunity to experience learning across the boundaries of institution, discipline, language, race and class, and to provide the team with data to enhance understanding of how stu…
Belonging” as a Theoretical Framework for the Study of Psychology and Globalization
This article argues that given the pernicious ways in which processes of globalization may be counter‐transformative for psychology as a discipline, it is important to consider which preventative mechanisms could be employed to engage psychological understandings of globalization in socially just and transformative ways. The notion of “belonging” as theoretical framework for the study of globalization in psychology will be discussed in the contex…
They just block it out”
Addressing dualisms in student perceptions of a historically white and black university in South Africa
Normative discourses about higher education institutions may perpetuate stereotypes about institutions. Few studies explore student perceptions of universities and how transformative pedagogical interventions in university classrooms may address institutional stereotypes. Using Plumwood’s notion of dualism, this qualitative study analyses unchallenged stereotypes about students’ own and another university during an inter-institutional collaborati…
A politics of shame
Epistemological resistance towards diversality
In contexts of political instability and change, the value of disciplinary knowledges and the processes that constituted them is often questioned. Psychology is not exempt from this process. Little South African work has illustrated what teaching for decoloniality may mean in South African psychology. We draw on examples of curriculum design in community psychology from the Universities of the Witwatersrand, South Africa and Stellenbosch, three l…
Productive faces of shame
Shame has typically been understood as a negative emotion, a view which is prevalent in individualist, psychologising discourses about human experience. Elspeth Probyn's approach to shame departs significantly from these tropes. As interviewers, we share a common interest in feminist ethics and productive affects in teaching and scholarship. Hence, our specific interest in Probyn's Blush: Faces of Shame. Blush is an excellent example of viewing t…
Volunteer leadership
Despite the growing interest in student volunteerism, few students volunteer, and volunteer organisations struggle to retain those who do. We explore motivating factors, expectations, and demotivating factors as they relate to retention in student volunteerism Participants were selected from six volunteer projects associated with three South African universities in the Western Cape region. Seventy active volunteers ( N = 70) responded to four ope…
Metaphor drawing as decolonial research and feminist care among Black women academics in selected South African higher education institutions in times of crises
The global COVID-19 pandemic and devastating floods in parts of Southern Africa in 2022 intensified the competing gender role expectations for women academics in the home and workplace, with negative consequences on their effective participation and success in their institutions. This article explores the value of participatory visual methodology generally, and metaphor drawing as feminist decolonial praxis and a research as social change approac…
Feminist decoloniality as care in higher education
The global development of community psychology as reflected in the American Journal of Community Psychology
This commentary presents a virtual special issue on the global growth of community psychology (CP), particularly, but not exclusively, as reflected in the American Journal of Community Psychology (AJCP) . CP exists in at least 50 countries all over the world, in many of those for over 25 years. Yet, aside from several early Israeli articles, AJCP rarely published work from or about countries outside the US and Canada until the early 2000s, when t…
I just want to get my degree and leave’
Literature abounds with Black male students' accounts of racialised and gendered experiences at university, especially at historically white institutions (HWI). This research is typically geospatially located in the Global North with sparse attention paid to Black men's experiences at HWIs in the Global South. We therefore explored Black male students' psychosocial experiences at a South African historically white campus. Our qualitative study, i…
Toward a decolonial psychology
Because colonialism was tailored to local geographies, any vision of decolonial psychology also needs to address the legacies of particular colonial histories. One of the central questions addressed in this special issue, "Toward a Decolonial Psychology: Recentering and Reclaiming Global Marginalized Knowledges," is what it means to create possible futures that are rooted in Indigenous cultures, place, people, and land and disentangled from colon…
Sociology (16 works) · Psychology (12 works) · Political science (10 works) · Gender Studies (9 works) · Pedagogy (9 works) · Social Psychology (9 works) · Gender Studies (8 works) · Law (7 works) · Politics (7 works) · Social Psychology (7 works)