P Kiguwa
Biographic Data
| ID | 57870 |
|---|---|
| NAME | P Kiguwa |
| GIVEN NAMES | P |
| FAMILY NAME | Kiguwa |
| SIGNATURE | KIGUWA P |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of the Witwatersrand |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-7480-2397 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 24 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 65 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 23 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2007 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Decolonial African-Centered Community Psychologies
Bhekizizwe Peterson’s Black Love project
Bhekizizwe (Bheki) Peterson was an African literary scholar, filmmaker, artist, and community activist. While all accurate descriptors, to describe him thus leaves absent his underlying project of Black Love. It is love that is present in his project of recovery of Black intellectual and cultural legacies; in his teaching and mentorship marked by intergenerational dialoguing in a joint quest for freedom; and it is love in his injunction to challe…
Introduction
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…
Love as Method
What imaginations of the self are evident in Black and African feminist visions of Black liberation? How is love framed as a centring politics of Black liberation across social and political struggles? These two questions address two features of Black and African feminist social justice politics: first, a re-imagining of the self via routes of the communal self and love of oneself; and, second, a centring of love as fundamental to any project of …
The world looks like this from here
This contribution engages the work of the contemporary South African Psychologist, Kopano Ratele, to illustrate the facets of sociopolitical and psychological dimensions of psychology from the Global South and its relevance for reimagining psychology across the continent and the global world. Ratele's African psychology framework offers us both a contemporary and critical analytic lens to reflect on the psychic life of power from the vantage poin…
Phantom Love
Toni Morrison's novel Love invites us to consider structuring systems in how Black women embody and practice love for each other. What is the affective quality of healing love between Black women? What happens when the social and psychic structuring of this love are implicated in patriarchal, racializing, and classed systems of relating? The paper engages two primary concerns: (1) how the erasure and distortion of Black women's love is made possi…
Troubling Apprehensions of Gender-Based Violence in South Africa
Threading across different discursive, cultural, and political moments of the postapartheid context, gender-based violence, inarguably, is a phenomenon that must be read contextually and as contingent upon intersecting configurations of power that are tied to historical, political, and material fractures of our colonial legacies. Three immediate intersecting threads of analyses are undertaken here: (1) how extant knowledge archives on gender-base…
The house that apartheid built
Language is over’
Black Masculinities on Trial in Absentia
This article explores the social representation of black masculinities as violent in the globally publicized case of the murder by Oscar Pistorius of his girlfriend, Reeva Steenkamp. This murder and the subsequent media interest it generated highlighted the manner in which fear of crime in South Africa, particularly amongst certain sectors of the population such as white, male gun owners and gun lobbyists, (including Pistorius and his family memb…
Constructed representations of street protest violence
Social media representations of masculinity and culture in Inxeba ( The Wound )
In 2017 the film Inxeba (The Wound), showing the practice of ulwaluko kwa Xhosa, was released internationally to much discontent and backlash from predominantly amaXhosa people and other black audience members in South Africa. The hashtag movement #TheWoundMustFall testifies to the emotive response to the film’s story content and engagement with the cultural practice of male initiation. This article analyses the rigid constructions of culture as …
Decolonising Psychology in residential and open distance e-learning institutions
In this article, we contribute to the current discussions and debates on decolonising Psychology by discussing some critical dimensions of decolonisation as it pertains to the explicit, hidden, and null curriculum. We also discuss the nuances of engaging a decolonised Psychology curriculum as members of staff in residential and open distance e-learning institutions. This includes issues of contact within and outside the classroom, language, and i…
Beyond disciplinary boundaries
This article explores critical directions for forging new disciplinary traditions within community psychology, as discussed by a panel at the conclusion of the 6th International Conference on Community Psychology (ICCP 2016). The conference itself was constructed as an enactment of a decolonizing approach, looking at the entire globalized system from the African continent and centring knowledges produced by Africans and the diaspora. Several pane…
Race-ing xenophobic violence
Intra-African migration to South Africa continues to be plagued by xenophobic violence and negative sentiments against black foreign bodies. The end of apartheid, exacerbated by regional and broader economic and political tensions on the continent, as well as general support of the anti-apartheid struggle by many African countries, has facilitated greater movement across and within the region. South African migration and economic isolation has in…
Half of the picture
Sexual harassment is not only a pervasive concern in many institutions of higher learning but more recently has come under the spotlight in critical discussions of academic and gender citizenship within institutional contexts in South Africa. Recently, as part of the institutional response to recent incidences of sexual harassment, a new and independent Sexual Harassment Unit at the University of the Witwatersrand was formed. However, institution…
XIV. Through our own eyes
For many years, Psychology literature has shied away from examining gender issues from a critical perspective in which women’s well-being is connected to how they are treated by the structures within which they exist. While there has been a substantial literature about feminism and psychology internationally, in South Africa numerous contributions started making their way into publications in the 1990s. The notion of feminism and psychology withi…
The second wave of violence scholarship
I provide the pleasure, I control it
This paper explores the meanings attached to gay sexuality through the self-labelling practices of a group of young gay-identified students in focus group and individual interviews in Johannesburg, South Africa. These meanings include constructs of the dynamics surrounding safe sex negotiation and risk related to "top-bottom" subject positioning as well as the erotics of power and desire that are imbued in these practices and positioning. Using p…
Violent masculinities and service delivery protests in post-apartheid South Africa
For the past few years, violent service delivery protests have been spreading across South Africa over access to basic services, such as water, electricity, housing and job opportunities. This Article draws on two case studies in which in-depth group and individual interviews were conducted with key male informants about their involvement in violent service delivery protests. It provides a gendered analysis of these events by focusing on Connell'…
To Be or Not to Be a Mother
We explored the notion of motherhood among female university students. Unstructured individual interviews were conducted with seven final-year female students at the University of the Witwatersrand. The data were analysed and various themes were categorised into manageable units. The findings suggest that many female students are ambivalent about motherhood and becoming mothers, with preferences for being career mothers set against preferences fo…
The Value of Social Representations Theory in Understanding Perceptions Regarding HIV/Aids
This study investigated the extent to which individuals experience ideologic strain from identifying with members in their in-group and its shared representation of HIV. 200 students from a large South African University completed a HIV Knowledge, Perceptions & Practices survey with open and closed items that were analysed using Thematic Content Analysis. The results from the HIV Knowledge, Perceptions & Practices survey in this cross-sectional s…
Teaching and Learning
Skogsberg and Clump (2003) have argued that there are major differences in the learning styles of students depending on the course they are undertaking. Hence, psychology students demonstrate a particular set of learning styles. It is vital to utilise these unique learning styles to address the needs of these students during the first-year level of higher education. Using the Biggs Study Process Questionnaire, we found that of the 319 psychology …
The Significance of Sheltering in the Lives of Four Women Affected by Abusive Relationships
Domestic violence is recognised as a pervasive problem in South Africa. This study focused on the narratives of four abused women and attempted to establish the significance of sheltering in their lives. A qualitative research design was used based on semi-structured interviews, which were analysed thematically. The findings supported past research, indicating that although the women's experiences were diverse they contained many features similar…
Violent masculinities and service delivery protests in post-apartheid South Africa
For the past few years, violent service delivery protests have been spreading across South Africa over access to basic services, such as water, electricity, housing and job opportunities. This Article draws on two case studies in which in-depth group and individual interviews were conducted with key male informants about their involvement in violent service delivery protests. It provides a gendered analysis of these events by focusing on Connell'…
The second wave of violence scholarship
Race-ing xenophobic violence
Intra-African migration to South Africa continues to be plagued by xenophobic violence and negative sentiments against black foreign bodies. The end of apartheid, exacerbated by regional and broader economic and political tensions on the continent, as well as general support of the anti-apartheid struggle by many African countries, has facilitated greater movement across and within the region. South African migration and economic isolation has in…
Beyond disciplinary boundaries
This article explores critical directions for forging new disciplinary traditions within community psychology, as discussed by a panel at the conclusion of the 6th International Conference on Community Psychology (ICCP 2016). The conference itself was constructed as an enactment of a decolonizing approach, looking at the entire globalized system from the African continent and centring knowledges produced by Africans and the diaspora. Several pane…
Constructed representations of street protest violence
Social media representations of masculinity and culture in Inxeba ( The Wound )
In 2017 the film Inxeba (The Wound), showing the practice of ulwaluko kwa Xhosa, was released internationally to much discontent and backlash from predominantly amaXhosa people and other black audience members in South Africa. The hashtag movement #TheWoundMustFall testifies to the emotive response to the film’s story content and engagement with the cultural practice of male initiation. This article analyses the rigid constructions of culture as …
Black Masculinities on Trial in Absentia
This article explores the social representation of black masculinities as violent in the globally publicized case of the murder by Oscar Pistorius of his girlfriend, Reeva Steenkamp. This murder and the subsequent media interest it generated highlighted the manner in which fear of crime in South Africa, particularly amongst certain sectors of the population such as white, male gun owners and gun lobbyists, (including Pistorius and his family memb…
Half of the picture
Sexual harassment is not only a pervasive concern in many institutions of higher learning but more recently has come under the spotlight in critical discussions of academic and gender citizenship within institutional contexts in South Africa. Recently, as part of the institutional response to recent incidences of sexual harassment, a new and independent Sexual Harassment Unit at the University of the Witwatersrand was formed. However, institution…
The world looks like this from here
This contribution engages the work of the contemporary South African Psychologist, Kopano Ratele, to illustrate the facets of sociopolitical and psychological dimensions of psychology from the Global South and its relevance for reimagining psychology across the continent and the global world. Ratele's African psychology framework offers us both a contemporary and critical analytic lens to reflect on the psychic life of power from the vantage poin…
Phantom Love
Toni Morrison's novel Love invites us to consider structuring systems in how Black women embody and practice love for each other. What is the affective quality of healing love between Black women? What happens when the social and psychic structuring of this love are implicated in patriarchal, racializing, and classed systems of relating? The paper engages two primary concerns: (1) how the erasure and distortion of Black women's love is made possi…
Language is over’
XIV. Through our own eyes
For many years, Psychology literature has shied away from examining gender issues from a critical perspective in which women’s well-being is connected to how they are treated by the structures within which they exist. While there has been a substantial literature about feminism and psychology internationally, in South Africa numerous contributions started making their way into publications in the 1990s. The notion of feminism and psychology withi…
To Be or Not to Be a Mother
We explored the notion of motherhood among female university students. Unstructured individual interviews were conducted with seven final-year female students at the University of the Witwatersrand. The data were analysed and various themes were categorised into manageable units. The findings suggest that many female students are ambivalent about motherhood and becoming mothers, with preferences for being career mothers set against preferences fo…
Teaching and Learning
Skogsberg and Clump (2003) have argued that there are major differences in the learning styles of students depending on the course they are undertaking. Hence, psychology students demonstrate a particular set of learning styles. It is vital to utilise these unique learning styles to address the needs of these students during the first-year level of higher education. Using the Biggs Study Process Questionnaire, we found that of the 319 psychology …
The Significance of Sheltering in the Lives of Four Women Affected by Abusive Relationships
Domestic violence is recognised as a pervasive problem in South Africa. This study focused on the narratives of four abused women and attempted to establish the significance of sheltering in their lives. A qualitative research design was used based on semi-structured interviews, which were analysed thematically. The findings supported past research, indicating that although the women's experiences were diverse they contained many features similar…
Teaching and Learning
Skogsberg and Clump (2003) have argued that there are major differences in the learning styles of students depending on the course they are undertaking. Hence, psychology students demonstrate a particular set of learning styles. It is vital to utilise these unique learning styles to address the needs of these students during the first-year level of higher education. Using the Biggs Study Process Questionnaire, we found that of the 319 psychology …
The Significance of Sheltering in the Lives of Four Women Affected by Abusive Relationships
Domestic violence is recognised as a pervasive problem in South Africa. This study focused on the narratives of four abused women and attempted to establish the significance of sheltering in their lives. A qualitative research design was used based on semi-structured interviews, which were analysed thematically. The findings supported past research, indicating that although the women's experiences were diverse they contained many features similar…
The Value of Social Representations Theory in Understanding Perceptions Regarding HIV/Aids
This study investigated the extent to which individuals experience ideologic strain from identifying with members in their in-group and its shared representation of HIV. 200 students from a large South African University completed a HIV Knowledge, Perceptions & Practices survey with open and closed items that were analysed using Thematic Content Analysis. The results from the HIV Knowledge, Perceptions & Practices survey in this cross-sectional s…
To Be or Not to Be a Mother
We explored the notion of motherhood among female university students. Unstructured individual interviews were conducted with seven final-year female students at the University of the Witwatersrand. The data were analysed and various themes were categorised into manageable units. The findings suggest that many female students are ambivalent about motherhood and becoming mothers, with preferences for being career mothers set against preferences fo…
Violent masculinities and service delivery protests in post-apartheid South Africa
For the past few years, violent service delivery protests have been spreading across South Africa over access to basic services, such as water, electricity, housing and job opportunities. This Article draws on two case studies in which in-depth group and individual interviews were conducted with key male informants about their involvement in violent service delivery protests. It provides a gendered analysis of these events by focusing on Connell'…
Half of the picture
Sexual harassment is not only a pervasive concern in many institutions of higher learning but more recently has come under the spotlight in critical discussions of academic and gender citizenship within institutional contexts in South Africa. Recently, as part of the institutional response to recent incidences of sexual harassment, a new and independent Sexual Harassment Unit at the University of the Witwatersrand was formed. However, institution…
XIV. Through our own eyes
For many years, Psychology literature has shied away from examining gender issues from a critical perspective in which women’s well-being is connected to how they are treated by the structures within which they exist. While there has been a substantial literature about feminism and psychology internationally, in South Africa numerous contributions started making their way into publications in the 1990s. The notion of feminism and psychology withi…
The second wave of violence scholarship
I provide the pleasure, I control it
This paper explores the meanings attached to gay sexuality through the self-labelling practices of a group of young gay-identified students in focus group and individual interviews in Johannesburg, South Africa. These meanings include constructs of the dynamics surrounding safe sex negotiation and risk related to "top-bottom" subject positioning as well as the erotics of power and desire that are imbued in these practices and positioning. Using p…
Race-ing xenophobic violence
Intra-African migration to South Africa continues to be plagued by xenophobic violence and negative sentiments against black foreign bodies. The end of apartheid, exacerbated by regional and broader economic and political tensions on the continent, as well as general support of the anti-apartheid struggle by many African countries, has facilitated greater movement across and within the region. South African migration and economic isolation has in…
Beyond disciplinary boundaries
This article explores critical directions for forging new disciplinary traditions within community psychology, as discussed by a panel at the conclusion of the 6th International Conference on Community Psychology (ICCP 2016). The conference itself was constructed as an enactment of a decolonizing approach, looking at the entire globalized system from the African continent and centring knowledges produced by Africans and the diaspora. Several pane…
Constructed representations of street protest violence
Social media representations of masculinity and culture in Inxeba ( The Wound )
In 2017 the film Inxeba (The Wound), showing the practice of ulwaluko kwa Xhosa, was released internationally to much discontent and backlash from predominantly amaXhosa people and other black audience members in South Africa. The hashtag movement #TheWoundMustFall testifies to the emotive response to the film’s story content and engagement with the cultural practice of male initiation. This article analyses the rigid constructions of culture as …
Decolonising Psychology in residential and open distance e-learning institutions
In this article, we contribute to the current discussions and debates on decolonising Psychology by discussing some critical dimensions of decolonisation as it pertains to the explicit, hidden, and null curriculum. We also discuss the nuances of engaging a decolonised Psychology curriculum as members of staff in residential and open distance e-learning institutions. This includes issues of contact within and outside the classroom, language, and i…
Language is over’
Black Masculinities on Trial in Absentia
This article explores the social representation of black masculinities as violent in the globally publicized case of the murder by Oscar Pistorius of his girlfriend, Reeva Steenkamp. This murder and the subsequent media interest it generated highlighted the manner in which fear of crime in South Africa, particularly amongst certain sectors of the population such as white, male gun owners and gun lobbyists, (including Pistorius and his family memb…
Troubling Apprehensions of Gender-Based Violence in South Africa
Threading across different discursive, cultural, and political moments of the postapartheid context, gender-based violence, inarguably, is a phenomenon that must be read contextually and as contingent upon intersecting configurations of power that are tied to historical, political, and material fractures of our colonial legacies. Three immediate intersecting threads of analyses are undertaken here: (1) how extant knowledge archives on gender-base…
The house that apartheid built
Phantom Love
Toni Morrison's novel Love invites us to consider structuring systems in how Black women embody and practice love for each other. What is the affective quality of healing love between Black women? What happens when the social and psychic structuring of this love are implicated in patriarchal, racializing, and classed systems of relating? The paper engages two primary concerns: (1) how the erasure and distortion of Black women's love is made possi…
Love as Method
What imaginations of the self are evident in Black and African feminist visions of Black liberation? How is love framed as a centring politics of Black liberation across social and political struggles? These two questions address two features of Black and African feminist social justice politics: first, a re-imagining of the self via routes of the communal self and love of oneself; and, second, a centring of love as fundamental to any project of …
The world looks like this from here
This contribution engages the work of the contemporary South African Psychologist, Kopano Ratele, to illustrate the facets of sociopolitical and psychological dimensions of psychology from the Global South and its relevance for reimagining psychology across the continent and the global world. Ratele's African psychology framework offers us both a contemporary and critical analytic lens to reflect on the psychic life of power from the vantage poin…
Bhekizizwe Peterson’s Black Love project
Bhekizizwe (Bheki) Peterson was an African literary scholar, filmmaker, artist, and community activist. While all accurate descriptors, to describe him thus leaves absent his underlying project of Black Love. It is love that is present in his project of recovery of Black intellectual and cultural legacies; in his teaching and mentorship marked by intergenerational dialoguing in a joint quest for freedom; and it is love in his injunction to challe…
Introduction
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…
Decolonial African-Centered Community Psychologies
Sociology (22 works) · Gender Studies (18 works) · Psychology (17 works) · Political science (14 works) · Law (10 works) · Politics (9 works) · Gender Studies (8 works) · Social Psychology (8 works) · Criminology (6 works) · Social science (6 works)