Mamphela Ramphele
Biographic Data
| ID | 88732 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Mamphela Ramphele |
| GIVEN NAMES | Mamphela |
| FAMILY NAME | Ramphele |
| SIGNATURE | RAMPHELE M |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Cape Town |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 25 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 207 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 23 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 2 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1986 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 8 |
Learning what we already know: On the 50 th anniversary of The Limits to Growth
How does one speak of social psychology in a nation in transition
Although South Africa's transition into nationhood has been remarkable by all measures, persistent inequalities remain. These are directly traceable to the impact of the social engineering of apartheid which has left a legacy of poverty and a lack of education. In this talk, I focus on three key dilemmas for South Africans: identity as a nation of citizens with multiple identities, capacity for self‐knowledge and self‐acceptance and openness to n…
Remaking a WorldViolence, Social Suffering, and Recovery: Violence, Social Suffering, and Recovery
Remaking a World completes a triptych of volumes on social suffering, violence, and recovery. Social Suffering, the first volume, deals with sources and major forms of social adversity, with an emphasis on political violence. The second, Violence and Subjectivity, contains graphic accounts of how collective experience of violence can alter individual subjectivity. This third volume explores the ways communities "cope" with - endure, work through,…
Remaking a World: Violence, Social Suffering, and Recovery
Remaking a World completes a triptych of volumes on social suffering, violence, and recovery. Social Suffering, the first volume, deals with sources and major forms of social adversity, with an emphasis on political violence. The second, Violence and Subjectivity, contains graphic accounts of how collective experience of violence can alter individual subjectivity. This third volume explores the ways communities "cope" with—endure, work through, b…
Beyond Racism: Race and Inequality in Brazil, South Africa, and the United States
Violence and Subjectivity
The essays in Violence and Subjectivity, written by a distinguished international roster of contributors, consider the ways in which violence shapes subjectivity and acts upon people's capacity to engage everyday life. Like its predecessor volume, Social Suffering, which explored the different ways social force inflicts harm on individuals and groups, this collection ventures into many areas of ongoing violence, asking how people live with themse…
Across Boundaries: The Journey of a South African Woman Leader
Gender Myths and Citizenship in Two Autobiographies by South African Women
Desiree Lewis, Ellen Kuzwayo, Mamphela Ramphele, Gender Myths and Citizenship in Two Autobiographies by South African Women, Agenda: Empowering Women for Gender Equity, No. 40, Citizenship (1999), pp. 38-44
Political Widowhood in South Africa: The Embodiment of Ambiguity
pain occasioned by the sting of death, and her body is turned into a focus of attention, as both subject and object of mourning rituals. The individual suffering of a widow is made social, and her body becomes a metaphor for suffering. This essay will examine the transposition of the widow from the role of enacting and embodying personal loss to that of incorpo rating public loss. The shifting of the focus and locus of grief from the personal to …
This Little Bit of Madness: Mamphela Ramphele on Being Black and Transgressive
Kimberley Yates, Pumla Gqola, Mamphela Ramphele, This Little Bit of Madness: Mamphela Ramphele on Being Black and Transgressive, Agenda: Empowering Women for Gender Equity, No. 37, The New Man? (1998), pp. 90-95
Adolescents and violence: Adults are cruel, they just beat, beat, beat
Across Boundaries: The Journey of a South African Woman Leader
Across Boundaries: The Journey of a South African Woman Leader, by Mamphela Ramphele. New York: Feminist Press at City University of New York, 1997. 241 pp. $19.95, cloth. The first book in a series from the Feminist Press on African women's lives, Across Boundaries is the public document of South African educator-activist Mamphela Ramphele's private life. In it, Ramphele traces her education and career path from the 1940s as a young girl in miss…
A Life
How ethical are the ethics of this militant anthropologist
1996). How ethical are the ethics of this militant anthropologist? Social Dynamics: Vol. 22, No. 1, pp. 1-4
Bounds of Possibility: The Legacy of Steve Biko and Black Consciousness
A bed called home: Life in the migrant labour hostels of Cape Town
In the last three years the migrant labour hostels of South Africa, particularly those in the Transvaal, have gained international notoriety as theatres of violence. For many years they were hidden from public view and neglected by the white authorities. Now, it seems, hostel dwellers may have chosen physical violence to draw attention to the structural violence of their appalling conditions of life. Yet we should not lose sight of the fact that …
Restoring the Land: Environment and Change in Post-Apartheid South Africa
(1992). Restoring the Land—Environment and Change in Post-Apartheid South Africa. Agenda: Vol. 8, HEALTH FOCUS, pp. 91-91
The quest for wholeness: Health care strategies among the residents of council-built hostels in cape town
Participatory research -the myths and realities
We no longer try to approach the world as a fixed array of objects, but rather as a reality that cannot be fully separated from our perceptions of it. It shifts over time and in response to our gaze. It interacts with us. And the knowledge that it yields must always be interpreted by us, by a particular kind of complex social, cultural and psychological ‘self that we bring with us into the field (Scheper‐Hughes, 1984 : 91)
Uprooting Poverty
The dynamics of gender politics in the hostels of Cape Town: Another legacy of the South African migrant labour system
The overcrowded, poorly equipped African male hostels of Cape Town house many women and children too. Personal relations in these migrant hostels illustrate how gender politics are shaped by racial exploitation, poetry and the manipulation of ‘tradition’ to legitimate male control. Tables set out the location, employment, education and age of bed‐holders and their dependants in the research sample. Married women from the countryside seeking incre…
Community: Concept and Practice in South Africa
The Circumcision of Women: A Strategy for Eradication
Children under Attack in the Townships by the Police and Military
William Tshabalala, Zanoduma Mntambo, Terry Sacco, Mamphela Ramphele, Ivan Abrahams, Children under Attack in the Townships by the Police and Military, Human Rights Quarterly, Vol. 10, No. 1 (Feb., 1988), pp. 88-107
The male-female dynamic amongst migrant workers in the Western Cape
This paper is a statement of concern about the problems of gender relations in the Western Cape Hostels which are seen as exaggerations of the general problems of gender in the wider South African society. The paper traces the historical reasons for the existence of hostels and draws heavily on the analysis by Elias of the legislative machinery utilized by various administrations to achieve this. An attempt is made to link gender relations to ove…
Remaking a World: Violence, Social Suffering, and Recovery
Remaking a World completes a triptych of volumes on social suffering, violence, and recovery. Social Suffering, the first volume, deals with sources and major forms of social adversity, with an emphasis on political violence. The second, Violence and Subjectivity, contains graphic accounts of how collective experience of violence can alter individual subjectivity. This third volume explores the ways communities "cope" with—endure, work through, b…
A bed called home: Life in the migrant labour hostels of Cape Town
In the last three years the migrant labour hostels of South Africa, particularly those in the Transvaal, have gained international notoriety as theatres of violence. For many years they were hidden from public view and neglected by the white authorities. Now, it seems, hostel dwellers may have chosen physical violence to draw attention to the structural violence of their appalling conditions of life. Yet we should not lose sight of the fact that …
Violence and Subjectivity
The essays in Violence and Subjectivity, written by a distinguished international roster of contributors, consider the ways in which violence shapes subjectivity and acts upon people's capacity to engage everyday life. Like its predecessor volume, Social Suffering, which explored the different ways social force inflicts harm on individuals and groups, this collection ventures into many areas of ongoing violence, asking how people live with themse…
Uprooting Poverty
The dynamics of gender politics in the hostels of Cape Town: Another legacy of the South African migrant labour system
The overcrowded, poorly equipped African male hostels of Cape Town house many women and children too. Personal relations in these migrant hostels illustrate how gender politics are shaped by racial exploitation, poetry and the manipulation of ‘tradition’ to legitimate male control. Tables set out the location, employment, education and age of bed‐holders and their dependants in the research sample. Married women from the countryside seeking incre…
Beyond Racism: Race and Inequality in Brazil, South Africa, and the United States
This Little Bit of Madness: Mamphela Ramphele on Being Black and Transgressive
Kimberley Yates, Pumla Gqola, Mamphela Ramphele, This Little Bit of Madness: Mamphela Ramphele on Being Black and Transgressive, Agenda: Empowering Women for Gender Equity, No. 37, The New Man? (1998), pp. 90-95
How ethical are the ethics of this militant anthropologist
1996). How ethical are the ethics of this militant anthropologist? Social Dynamics: Vol. 22, No. 1, pp. 1-4
Gender Myths and Citizenship in Two Autobiographies by South African Women
Desiree Lewis, Ellen Kuzwayo, Mamphela Ramphele, Gender Myths and Citizenship in Two Autobiographies by South African Women, Agenda: Empowering Women for Gender Equity, No. 40, Citizenship (1999), pp. 38-44
The Circumcision of Women: A Strategy for Eradication
Adolescents and violence: Adults are cruel, they just beat, beat, beat
Restoring the Land: Environment and Change in Post-Apartheid South Africa
(1992). Restoring the Land—Environment and Change in Post-Apartheid South Africa. Agenda: Vol. 8, HEALTH FOCUS, pp. 91-91
The quest for wholeness: Health care strategies among the residents of council-built hostels in cape town
Participatory research -the myths and realities
We no longer try to approach the world as a fixed array of objects, but rather as a reality that cannot be fully separated from our perceptions of it. It shifts over time and in response to our gaze. It interacts with us. And the knowledge that it yields must always be interpreted by us, by a particular kind of complex social, cultural and psychological ‘self that we bring with us into the field (Scheper‐Hughes, 1984 : 91)
Community: Concept and Practice in South Africa
How does one speak of social psychology in a nation in transition
Although South Africa's transition into nationhood has been remarkable by all measures, persistent inequalities remain. These are directly traceable to the impact of the social engineering of apartheid which has left a legacy of poverty and a lack of education. In this talk, I focus on three key dilemmas for South Africans: identity as a nation of citizens with multiple identities, capacity for self‐knowledge and self‐acceptance and openness to n…
The male-female dynamic amongst migrant workers in the Western Cape
This paper is a statement of concern about the problems of gender relations in the Western Cape Hostels which are seen as exaggerations of the general problems of gender in the wider South African society. The paper traces the historical reasons for the existence of hostels and draws heavily on the analysis by Elias of the legislative machinery utilized by various administrations to achieve this. An attempt is made to link gender relations to ove…
The Circumcision of Women: A Strategy for Eradication
Children under Attack in the Townships by the Police and Military
William Tshabalala, Zanoduma Mntambo, Terry Sacco, Mamphela Ramphele, Ivan Abrahams, Children under Attack in the Townships by the Police and Military, Human Rights Quarterly, Vol. 10, No. 1 (Feb., 1988), pp. 88-107
Uprooting Poverty
The dynamics of gender politics in the hostels of Cape Town: Another legacy of the South African migrant labour system
The overcrowded, poorly equipped African male hostels of Cape Town house many women and children too. Personal relations in these migrant hostels illustrate how gender politics are shaped by racial exploitation, poetry and the manipulation of ‘tradition’ to legitimate male control. Tables set out the location, employment, education and age of bed‐holders and their dependants in the research sample. Married women from the countryside seeking incre…
Community: Concept and Practice in South Africa
Participatory research -the myths and realities
We no longer try to approach the world as a fixed array of objects, but rather as a reality that cannot be fully separated from our perceptions of it. It shifts over time and in response to our gaze. It interacts with us. And the knowledge that it yields must always be interpreted by us, by a particular kind of complex social, cultural and psychological ‘self that we bring with us into the field (Scheper‐Hughes, 1984 : 91)
The quest for wholeness: Health care strategies among the residents of council-built hostels in cape town
Restoring the Land: Environment and Change in Post-Apartheid South Africa
(1992). Restoring the Land—Environment and Change in Post-Apartheid South Africa. Agenda: Vol. 8, HEALTH FOCUS, pp. 91-91
A bed called home: Life in the migrant labour hostels of Cape Town
In the last three years the migrant labour hostels of South Africa, particularly those in the Transvaal, have gained international notoriety as theatres of violence. For many years they were hidden from public view and neglected by the white authorities. Now, it seems, hostel dwellers may have chosen physical violence to draw attention to the structural violence of their appalling conditions of life. Yet we should not lose sight of the fact that …
Bounds of Possibility: The Legacy of Steve Biko and Black Consciousness
A Life
How ethical are the ethics of this militant anthropologist
1996). How ethical are the ethics of this militant anthropologist? Social Dynamics: Vol. 22, No. 1, pp. 1-4
Adolescents and violence: Adults are cruel, they just beat, beat, beat
Across Boundaries: The Journey of a South African Woman Leader
Across Boundaries: The Journey of a South African Woman Leader, by Mamphela Ramphele. New York: Feminist Press at City University of New York, 1997. 241 pp. $19.95, cloth. The first book in a series from the Feminist Press on African women's lives, Across Boundaries is the public document of South African educator-activist Mamphela Ramphele's private life. In it, Ramphele traces her education and career path from the 1940s as a young girl in miss…
Political Widowhood in South Africa: The Embodiment of Ambiguity
pain occasioned by the sting of death, and her body is turned into a focus of attention, as both subject and object of mourning rituals. The individual suffering of a widow is made social, and her body becomes a metaphor for suffering. This essay will examine the transposition of the widow from the role of enacting and embodying personal loss to that of incorpo rating public loss. The shifting of the focus and locus of grief from the personal to …
This Little Bit of Madness: Mamphela Ramphele on Being Black and Transgressive
Kimberley Yates, Pumla Gqola, Mamphela Ramphele, This Little Bit of Madness: Mamphela Ramphele on Being Black and Transgressive, Agenda: Empowering Women for Gender Equity, No. 37, The New Man? (1998), pp. 90-95
Gender Myths and Citizenship in Two Autobiographies by South African Women
Desiree Lewis, Ellen Kuzwayo, Mamphela Ramphele, Gender Myths and Citizenship in Two Autobiographies by South African Women, Agenda: Empowering Women for Gender Equity, No. 40, Citizenship (1999), pp. 38-44
Across Boundaries: The Journey of a South African Woman Leader
Remaking a WorldViolence, Social Suffering, and Recovery: Violence, Social Suffering, and Recovery
Remaking a World completes a triptych of volumes on social suffering, violence, and recovery. Social Suffering, the first volume, deals with sources and major forms of social adversity, with an emphasis on political violence. The second, Violence and Subjectivity, contains graphic accounts of how collective experience of violence can alter individual subjectivity. This third volume explores the ways communities "cope" with - endure, work through,…
Remaking a World: Violence, Social Suffering, and Recovery
Remaking a World completes a triptych of volumes on social suffering, violence, and recovery. Social Suffering, the first volume, deals with sources and major forms of social adversity, with an emphasis on political violence. The second, Violence and Subjectivity, contains graphic accounts of how collective experience of violence can alter individual subjectivity. This third volume explores the ways communities "cope" with—endure, work through, b…
Beyond Racism: Race and Inequality in Brazil, South Africa, and the United States
Violence and Subjectivity
The essays in Violence and Subjectivity, written by a distinguished international roster of contributors, consider the ways in which violence shapes subjectivity and acts upon people's capacity to engage everyday life. Like its predecessor volume, Social Suffering, which explored the different ways social force inflicts harm on individuals and groups, this collection ventures into many areas of ongoing violence, asking how people live with themse…
How does one speak of social psychology in a nation in transition
Although South Africa's transition into nationhood has been remarkable by all measures, persistent inequalities remain. These are directly traceable to the impact of the social engineering of apartheid which has left a legacy of poverty and a lack of education. In this talk, I focus on three key dilemmas for South Africans: identity as a nation of citizens with multiple identities, capacity for self‐knowledge and self‐acceptance and openness to n…
Learning what we already know: On the 50 th anniversary of The Limits to Growth
Sociology (15 works) · Political science (14 works) · Gender Studies (7 works) · Law (7 works) · Geography (6 works) · History (5 works) · Philosophy (5 works) · Politics (5 works) · Psychology (5 works) · South African History and Culture (5 works)