Kalemba Kizito
Biographic Data
| ID | 6740853 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Kalemba Kizito |
| GIVEN NAMES | Kalemba |
| FAMILY NAME | Kizito |
| SIGNATURE | KIZITO K |
| AFFILIATIONS | Boston College |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-9451-228X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 5 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 6 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 5 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2017 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
The soccer Goat
This essay interrogates how the global discourse of greatness in sport, condensed in the term GOAT (Greatest of All Time), functions as a rhetorical mechanism that both celebrates and regulates Black excellence. Taking Pelé as its focal point, the essay situates his mythic status within the neoliberal and racial economies of world football, where heroism is commodified as proof of progress while structural inequities remain intact. Drawing on Kiz…
Cartography of fear
This essay theorizes running as a Black bodily and psychic condition governed by a cartography of fear. Drawing on Lisa Flores' concept of stoppage and Kent Ono's moving borders, it proposes the epidermal border as the central site of danger. Triangulating Benyam Tesfai's outward checklist, my autoethnography of interior borders, and Ahmaud Arbery's fatal jog, the essay reveals how this border, fusing skin with space, forces Black mobility to nav…
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…
Denied access
Public health research establishes clear links between race and health and identifies racism as a social determinant of health; however, little critical attention focuses on how public health discourses reproduce bordering mechanisms that reify Black health disparities. Centering the COVID-19 pandemic to explore how border logics reproduce such inequities, we introduce the “epidermal border” as an innovative and emancipatory framework for studyin…
Bequeathed Legacies
British colonial involvement in Uganda, and continued western political and economic influence over the affairs of the global south, warrants critical examination if proper context of the Uganda Anti-Homosexuality Bill is to be understood. In response to the question, how did colonial legacy contribute to state led gendered violence against sexual minorities in Uganda? I advance the argument that authoritarianism and surveillance are both constit…
Bequeathed Legacies
British colonial involvement in Uganda, and continued western political and economic influence over the affairs of the global south, warrants critical examination if proper context of the Uganda Anti-Homosexuality Bill is to be understood. In response to the question, how did colonial legacy contribute to state led gendered violence against sexual minorities in Uganda? I advance the argument that authoritarianism and surveillance are both constit…
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…
Denied access
Public health research establishes clear links between race and health and identifies racism as a social determinant of health; however, little critical attention focuses on how public health discourses reproduce bordering mechanisms that reify Black health disparities. Centering the COVID-19 pandemic to explore how border logics reproduce such inequities, we introduce the “epidermal border” as an innovative and emancipatory framework for studyin…
Bequeathed Legacies
British colonial involvement in Uganda, and continued western political and economic influence over the affairs of the global south, warrants critical examination if proper context of the Uganda Anti-Homosexuality Bill is to be understood. In response to the question, how did colonial legacy contribute to state led gendered violence against sexual minorities in Uganda? I advance the argument that authoritarianism and surveillance are both constit…
Denied access
Public health research establishes clear links between race and health and identifies racism as a social determinant of health; however, little critical attention focuses on how public health discourses reproduce bordering mechanisms that reify Black health disparities. Centering the COVID-19 pandemic to explore how border logics reproduce such inequities, we introduce the “epidermal border” as an innovative and emancipatory framework for studyin…
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…
The soccer Goat
This essay interrogates how the global discourse of greatness in sport, condensed in the term GOAT (Greatest of All Time), functions as a rhetorical mechanism that both celebrates and regulates Black excellence. Taking Pelé as its focal point, the essay situates his mythic status within the neoliberal and racial economies of world football, where heroism is commodified as proof of progress while structural inequities remain intact. Drawing on Kiz…
Cartography of fear
This essay theorizes running as a Black bodily and psychic condition governed by a cartography of fear. Drawing on Lisa Flores' concept of stoppage and Kent Ono's moving borders, it proposes the epidermal border as the central site of danger. Triangulating Benyam Tesfai's outward checklist, my autoethnography of interior borders, and Ahmaud Arbery's fatal jog, the essay reveals how this border, fusing skin with space, forces Black mobility to nav…
Gender Studies (3 works) · Political science (3 works) · Sociology (3 works) · Gender Studies (2 works) · Law (2 works) · Politics (2 works) · African history and culture studies (1 work) · African Sexualities and LGBTQ+ Issues (1 work) · African studies and sociopolitical issues (1 work) · American Sports and Literature (1 work)