Kim Wale
Biographic Data
| ID | 99879 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Kim Wale |
| GIVEN NAMES | Kim |
| FAMILY NAME | Wale |
| SIGNATURE | WALE K |
| AFFILIATIONS | Stellenbosch University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-3370-5544 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 8 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 5 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 8 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2007 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Empowering Matrescence Through Imagining the Mother-Self: A Solution-Focused Matrescent Identity Intervention
The emerging concept of matrescence highlights the profound biological, social, and psychological transformation women undergo as they become mothers. This study contributes to the growing research on how to support mothers through this process of identity transformation and psychological vulnerability. Grounded in narrative identity theory and solution-focused practice, it presents a study exploring how imagining desired possible mother-selves m…
Knotted memories of a betrayed sacrifice: Rethinking trauma and hope in South Africa
Different groups within South African society express disillusionment with the present through a discourse of betrayal in relation to the liberation movement-cum-governing-party of the African National Congress. This article focuses on a particular articulation of this discourse within two memory communities in the Western Cape (Bonteheuwel and Crossroads) who were embroiled in violence and political struggle during apartheid and continue to suff…
Trading justice for peace? Reframing reconciliation in TRC processes in South Africa, Canada and Nordic countries
Conflict in its various manifestations continues to be a defining feature in many places throughout the world. In an attempt to address such conflict, various forms of a Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) have been introduced to facilitate the transition from social conflict to a new dispensation. The introduction and subsequent proceedings of TRCs in South Africa, Canada and Norway are widely regarded as good examples of this approach. Ag…
Towards critical cultural openness: (In)vulnerability in white student narratives of transformation in South Africa
This paper explores the politics of emotion in white students' experiential narratives about institutional attempts to transform racial demographics and relationships within residences at a historically white South African university. Three distinct narrative forms are presented each with a unique emotional politics constructed around the tropes of "culture" and "tradition". The "white victim" and "white saviour" narratives demonstrate an emotion…
South Africa’s Struggle to Remember: Contested memories of squatter resistance in the Western Cape
Transitional justice studies typically focuses on how nations remember, face and deal with histories of past violence. This book, however, shifts the frame from national discourses of transitional justice onto local memory actors who attempt to engage with these broader systems of meaning from below. The case study is based on the memory struggles of individuals and groups who are attempting to gain access to the discourses and benefits associate…
South Africa's Struggle to Remember: Contested Memories of Squatter Resistance in the Western Cape
Falling through the Cracks of South Africa's Liberation: Comrades' Counter-Memories of Squatter Resistance in the 1980s
The commemorating narrative of South African nationhood tells the story of the national liberation struggle against apartheid and the transition to freedom and democracy. It places the present ruling party, the African National Congress (ANC), at its heart as leader of the struggle and bringer of freedom. However, the cracks and contradictions in this national story are increasingly evident, as poverty, injustice and inequality deepen. This artic…
Investing in discourses of poverty and development: How white wealthy South Africans mobilise meaning to maintain privilege
Twelve years after the transition from apartheid to democracy. South Africa remains a severely unequal society. On the one side of the divide are relatively prosperous white South Africans and an increasing black middle and upper class; and on the other side are harshly poor black South Africans. Despite decreasing interracial inequality, many white South Africans remain in a highly privileged position at the intersection of continued race and cl…
Towards critical cultural openness: (In)vulnerability in white student narratives of transformation in South Africa
This paper explores the politics of emotion in white students' experiential narratives about institutional attempts to transform racial demographics and relationships within residences at a historically white South African university. Three distinct narrative forms are presented each with a unique emotional politics constructed around the tropes of "culture" and "tradition". The "white victim" and "white saviour" narratives demonstrate an emotion…
Knotted memories of a betrayed sacrifice: Rethinking trauma and hope in South Africa
Different groups within South African society express disillusionment with the present through a discourse of betrayal in relation to the liberation movement-cum-governing-party of the African National Congress. This article focuses on a particular articulation of this discourse within two memory communities in the Western Cape (Bonteheuwel and Crossroads) who were embroiled in violence and political struggle during apartheid and continue to suff…
Falling through the Cracks of South Africa's Liberation: Comrades' Counter-Memories of Squatter Resistance in the 1980s
The commemorating narrative of South African nationhood tells the story of the national liberation struggle against apartheid and the transition to freedom and democracy. It places the present ruling party, the African National Congress (ANC), at its heart as leader of the struggle and bringer of freedom. However, the cracks and contradictions in this national story are increasingly evident, as poverty, injustice and inequality deepen. This artic…
Investing in discourses of poverty and development: How white wealthy South Africans mobilise meaning to maintain privilege
Twelve years after the transition from apartheid to democracy. South Africa remains a severely unequal society. On the one side of the divide are relatively prosperous white South Africans and an increasing black middle and upper class; and on the other side are harshly poor black South Africans. Despite decreasing interracial inequality, many white South Africans remain in a highly privileged position at the intersection of continued race and cl…
South Africa’s Struggle to Remember: Contested memories of squatter resistance in the Western Cape
Transitional justice studies typically focuses on how nations remember, face and deal with histories of past violence. This book, however, shifts the frame from national discourses of transitional justice onto local memory actors who attempt to engage with these broader systems of meaning from below. The case study is based on the memory struggles of individuals and groups who are attempting to gain access to the discourses and benefits associate…
South Africa's Struggle to Remember: Contested Memories of Squatter Resistance in the Western Cape
Falling through the Cracks of South Africa's Liberation: Comrades' Counter-Memories of Squatter Resistance in the 1980s
The commemorating narrative of South African nationhood tells the story of the national liberation struggle against apartheid and the transition to freedom and democracy. It places the present ruling party, the African National Congress (ANC), at its heart as leader of the struggle and bringer of freedom. However, the cracks and contradictions in this national story are increasingly evident, as poverty, injustice and inequality deepen. This artic…
Towards critical cultural openness: (In)vulnerability in white student narratives of transformation in South Africa
This paper explores the politics of emotion in white students' experiential narratives about institutional attempts to transform racial demographics and relationships within residences at a historically white South African university. Three distinct narrative forms are presented each with a unique emotional politics constructed around the tropes of "culture" and "tradition". The "white victim" and "white saviour" narratives demonstrate an emotion…
Trading justice for peace? Reframing reconciliation in TRC processes in South Africa, Canada and Nordic countries
Conflict in its various manifestations continues to be a defining feature in many places throughout the world. In an attempt to address such conflict, various forms of a Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) have been introduced to facilitate the transition from social conflict to a new dispensation. The introduction and subsequent proceedings of TRCs in South Africa, Canada and Norway are widely regarded as good examples of this approach. Ag…
Knotted memories of a betrayed sacrifice: Rethinking trauma and hope in South Africa
Different groups within South African society express disillusionment with the present through a discourse of betrayal in relation to the liberation movement-cum-governing-party of the African National Congress. This article focuses on a particular articulation of this discourse within two memory communities in the Western Cape (Bonteheuwel and Crossroads) who were embroiled in violence and political struggle during apartheid and continue to suff…
Empowering Matrescence Through Imagining the Mother-Self: A Solution-Focused Matrescent Identity Intervention
The emerging concept of matrescence highlights the profound biological, social, and psychological transformation women undergo as they become mothers. This study contributes to the growing research on how to support mothers through this process of identity transformation and psychological vulnerability. Grounded in narrative identity theory and solution-focused practice, it presents a study exploring how imagining desired possible mother-selves m…
Political science (6 works) · Gender Studies (5 works) · Sociology (5 works) · Law (4 works) · Narrative (4 works) · Psychology (4 works) · South African History and Culture (4 works) · History (3 works) · Politics (3 works) · Bidonvilles (2 works)