G Stevens
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 20384 |
|---|---|
| NOME | G Stevens |
| PRENOMES | G |
| SOBRENOME | Stevens |
| ASSINATURA | STEVENS G |
| AFILIAÇÕES | University of the Witwatersrand |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-4285-0471 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 37 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 89 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 37 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1978 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2025 |
| ÍNDICE H | 6 |
We are not alone in the world”
Departing from the premise that contemporary psychological knowledge and praxis are dominated by a philosophy of science privileging an individualistic perspective from predominantly Northern and Western industrialized contexts, this article traces an instance of disrupting such epistemic hegemony through a decolonial lens employing podcasting technologies to nurture and grow relational global connections. We weave together our stories of buildin…
The self in jeopardy
Drawing on a scan of psychoanalytic writing, this paper engages with the historical absence of race as a subject of enquiry within classical psychoanalytic thinking and practice. In considering that psychoanalysis has only recently begun to engage more intentionally with race in thinking and practice, we suggest that this engagement has historically been complicated, and remains complex, because it challenges foundational psychoanalytic tenets, w…
Looking backwards, looking forwards
To mark the 30th anniversary of the Psychological Society of South Africa (PsySSA), 11 of PsySSA’s past presidents, along with two facilitators, gathered in early 2024 for a roundtable discussion on psychology in South Africa. This article represents an edited transcript of that conversation. The guiding motif of the discussion – looking backwards, looking forwards – led discussants through the historical temporalities, institutional, professiona…
(Un)consciousness-Raising, (Un)knowability, Lack and Spectrums of Solidarity
In this response, I address five selective arguments in relation to Malherbe’s thesis on the implication of the unconscious in the structuring of our political orientations and activities, and the importance of engaging in a process of unconsciousness-raising. First, I raise a seeming conceptual tension in his argument about the relationship between conscious and unconscious activity. Second, I highlight the challenge of occupying a range of subj…
Premesh Lalu, Undoing Apartheid, Polity Press
Maternal and Paternal Hauntings in the Evolution of the Self
In this commentary, I engage with selected ideas from Mendes’ paper, examining childhood trauma and the (dis) configuration of the Self. First, I focus on what the possibilities of a more triadically-inflected analysis of the relationship between the patient, her mother, and father may offer us in understanding the recalcitrant effects of trauma inside a culturally gendered triad. Second, I reflect on the foregrounded traumatogenic events surroun…
Influencia de los contenidos de meta sobre la intención de práctica de ejercicio físico en adolescentes
Basado en la teora de la auto-determinacin, este estudio tuvo como objetivo analizar la influencia de las diferentes metas intrnsecas (i.e., afiliacin social, gestin de la salud y desarrollo de habilidades) y extrnsecas (i.e., imagen y reconocimiento social) sobre la intencin de prctica de ejercicio en adolescentes. Participaron 282 estudiantes de educacin secundaria obligatoria y bachillerato (146 hombres y 136 mujeres; M edad = 14.54, DT edad =…
Conundrums in teaching decolonial critical community psychology within the context of neo‐liberal market pressures
In this paper, we provide empirically informed reflections on the difficulty of undertaking critically inflected, decolonial praxis in community psychology within the overdetermined global order of neo‐liberalism. Using interviews with 10 alumni of the Masters in Community‐Based Counselling (MACC) psychology program at the University of the Witwatersrand (Wits) in South Africa, we extend what have hitherto been largely theoretical debates about t…
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…
Racial Alienation, the (Im)possibilities of Resolution, and the Absent/Present Other
In this article, I engage with apparent absences in our clinical work and our writings on the clinical encounter itself, when race becomes salient between patient and therapist in the room. Drawing on the work of Jacques Derrida on absence and presence, I suggest that despite representational absences in our clinical work and writings, that these nevertheless signal a spectral presence of sorts, that require a diverted gaze, as they may point to …
Nuevos retos y perspectivas de investigación en Educación Física (New challenges and research perspectives in Physical Education)
El presente monográfico “Nuevos retos y perspectivas de investigación en Educación Física” es una iniciativa que surge desde la Red internacional de investigación en Educación Física y Promoción de Hábitos Saludables (www.edufisaludable.com). Esta red, financiada por el Consejo Superior de Deportes en sus convocatorias de 2019 y 2020, reúne en la actualidad a más de 50 investigadores de todo el panorama nacional e internacional. En el contexto es…
Race, research and responsibility
Poised for promise or on the precipice of precarity? Reflections on the 1994 launch of the psychological society of South Africa
Raced Repetition
This article engages with key contemporary questions about the extent to which the obstinacy of racial formation processes, as well as the apparent global resurgence of raced thinking, represent a paralysis of the global anti-racist project or signal an important analytic opportunity for revitalising critical race scholarship and anti-racist praxis. To this end, it is incumbent upon critical race scholars and practitioners to take stock of their …
Transnational perspectives on Black subjectivity
In this article, five Black researchers bring their insights into conversation about meanings of blackness in contemporary Australia, Jamaica, South Africa, the United Kingdom, and the United States of America. We critically interrogate blackness transnationally and also within the historical contexts of our work and lived experiences. Situated within critical race studies, we draw on multiple theoretical frameworks that seek to preserve the comp…
Histórias do apartheid, memória e pertencimento entre a população da diáspora sul-africana na Austrália
It has been more than 20 years since the removal of the apartheid system, yet, for those who lived in apartheid South Africa, racialization remains a central feature of their subjectivity both inside and outside of the country. For the South African diaspora in Australia there are contextually specific psychosocial processes, socio-structural arrangements, and meaning systems that need to be negotiated, including the relationship with their home …
Bridging risk and enactment
In the wake of apartheid, many in the South African health and social sciences shifted their orientation to understanding violence. Rather than approaching violence as a criminal problem, post-apartheid scholarship surfaced violence as a threat to national health. This re-orientation was well aligned with a global groundswell that culminated in the World Health Assembly’s 1996 declaration of violence as a public health problem. In response, resea…
The clinician in the university
There is increasing interest, both internationally and in South Africa, in strengthening the relationship between psychoanalytic practice and research. This paper reports on a psychoanalytically oriented doctoral programme offered at the University of the Witwatersrand in South Africa. The programme is described in relation to the broader context of the historical relationship of psychoanalysis to the university as well as to the specific context…
The second wave of violence scholarship
Living through the legacy
The Apartheid Archive Project is an ongoing, collaborative research project that focuses on the collection of personal stories and narrative accounts from ordinary South Africans about their experiences of racism during apartheid. The primary aim of this initiative is to provide a forum for differing sectors of South African society to share and reflect on their past experiences, in the hope that these will offer us an array of alternative entry …
Continuous traumatic stress
Of narratives and nostalgia
This article provides an introduction to and outlines the rationale for the focus of this special issue, Of Narratives and Nostalgia. It therefore provides a broad description of the Apartheid Archive Project, which had served as the platform for the development of all the articles contained in this special issue. Additionally, it sketches the broad contours of, and interrogates, some of the key theoretical constructs that recur across the articl…
Textual transformations of subjectivity in men’s talk of gender-based violence
This study examined how men accounted for their violent behaviours against their intimate female partners. In-depth qualitative interviews were conducted with 12 men from three men’s groups in Johannesburg, South Africa. All the men self-reported that they had committed acts of intimate partner violence previously, and the majority were from low-income, township settings. Dissociations, justifications and confessions featured as the predominant a…
O5-3.1 Global, regional and national trends in metabolic risk factors of chronic diseases
Introduction Information on levels and trends of risk factors is essential for policy making. However, very few comprehensive and consistent global estimates are available. We collected a global database of population level summaries of systolic blood pressure (SBP), body mass index (BMI), serum total cholesterol (TC) and fasting plasma glucose (FPG) and estimated levels and trends since 1980. Methods For each risk factor, we searched for publish…
Men in Africa
At a public lecture in Cape Town earlier this year, Professor \nSandra Harding, an internationally renowned feminist author, \nspoke to the question ‘Can men be subjects of feminist \nthought?’ (1 March 2010, District Six Museum, Cape Town). In \nher talk, Harding called on men to elaborate critically on their \nsubjective experiences and practices of being boys and men – \nfrom childhood to adulthood, and through fatherhood to old age. \nShe arg…
The second wave of violence scholarship
Coca-Cola Kids’ - Reflections on Black Adolescent Identity Development in Post-Apartheid South Africa
In this paper the authors make use of Erikson's psychosocial theory and Bulhan's analysis of identity development within oppressed social groups, and explore how black adolescents may be attempting to negotiate the developmental challenges facing them within the changing socio-historical contexts of post-apartheid South Africa. It explores the impact of apartheid-capitalism on black adolescent identity development, as well as the impact of severa…
Continuous traumatic stress
Trends and Redress in Community Psychology during 10 Years of Democracy (1994–2003)
Drawing on a content analysis of selected articles from the South African Journal of Psychology (SAJP) and Psychology in Society (PINS), the authors reflect on the extent to which South African community psychology's early vision resonates in publications in post-1994 South African psychology. Concerned about the Euro-American, patriarchal, classist, and individualised orientation in clinical, counselling, and social psychology, community psychol…
Of narratives and nostalgia
This article provides an introduction to and outlines the rationale for the focus of this special issue, Of Narratives and Nostalgia. It therefore provides a broad description of the Apartheid Archive Project, which had served as the platform for the development of all the articles contained in this special issue. Additionally, it sketches the broad contours of, and interrogates, some of the key theoretical constructs that recur across the articl…
Academic representations of ‘race’ and racism in psychology
The South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission
Racialised’ Discourses
Since 1993 there have been increasing reports of ‘racial’ tensions within South Africa's black populace. Blacks labelled as ‘coloured’ appear to be expressing increased perceptions of ‘racial’ threat in relation to blacks labelled as ‘African’. As discourse is one of the mechanisms through which racist ideology is reproduced, this study examined the ‘racialised’ discourses of seven black adults (i.e. ‘coloureds’) from a Western Cape community. Th…
Conundrums in teaching decolonial critical community psychology within the context of neo‐liberal market pressures
In this paper, we provide empirically informed reflections on the difficulty of undertaking critically inflected, decolonial praxis in community psychology within the overdetermined global order of neo‐liberalism. Using interviews with 10 alumni of the Masters in Community‐Based Counselling (MACC) psychology program at the University of the Witwatersrand (Wits) in South Africa, we extend what have hitherto been largely theoretical debates about t…
Textual transformations of subjectivity in men’s talk of gender-based violence
This study examined how men accounted for their violent behaviours against their intimate female partners. In-depth qualitative interviews were conducted with 12 men from three men’s groups in Johannesburg, South Africa. All the men self-reported that they had committed acts of intimate partner violence previously, and the majority were from low-income, township settings. Dissociations, justifications and confessions featured as the predominant a…
Through her Eyes
We explore the relational nature of race and racism as manifested in women's narratives within the Apartheid Archive Project—a compendium of narratives related to quotidian apartheid experiences generated by “ordinary” people. We argue that apartheid was not only a system of interconnected social, political and economic structures that oppressed, but that it required those who lived under it to enforce it in supremely intimate ways. It is from wi…
Living through the legacy
The Apartheid Archive Project is an ongoing, collaborative research project that focuses on the collection of personal stories and narrative accounts from ordinary South Africans about their experiences of racism during apartheid. The primary aim of this initiative is to provide a forum for differing sectors of South African society to share and reflect on their past experiences, in the hope that these will offer us an array of alternative entry …
Bridging risk and enactment
In the wake of apartheid, many in the South African health and social sciences shifted their orientation to understanding violence. Rather than approaching violence as a criminal problem, post-apartheid scholarship surfaced violence as a threat to national health. This re-orientation was well aligned with a global groundswell that culminated in the World Health Assembly’s 1996 declaration of violence as a public health problem. In response, resea…
Looking backwards, looking forwards
To mark the 30th anniversary of the Psychological Society of South Africa (PsySSA), 11 of PsySSA’s past presidents, along with two facilitators, gathered in early 2024 for a roundtable discussion on psychology in South Africa. This article represents an edited transcript of that conversation. The guiding motif of the discussion – looking backwards, looking forwards – led discussants through the historical temporalities, institutional, professiona…
Transnational perspectives on Black subjectivity
In this article, five Black researchers bring their insights into conversation about meanings of blackness in contemporary Australia, Jamaica, South Africa, the United Kingdom, and the United States of America. We critically interrogate blackness transnationally and also within the historical contexts of our work and lived experiences. Situated within critical race studies, we draw on multiple theoretical frameworks that seek to preserve the comp…
Privy Seals of Chief Governors in Ireland, 1392-1560
Journal Article Privy Seals of Chief Governors in Ireland, 1392–1560 Get access G STEVEN G STEVEN Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Bulletin of the Institute of Historical Research, Volume 51, Issue 124, November 1978, Pages 187–194, https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1468-2281.1978.tb01880.x Published: 12 October 2007
Mortality and two indicators of morbidity
Coca-Cola Kids’ - Reflections on Black Adolescent Identity Development in Post-Apartheid South Africa
In this paper the authors make use of Erikson's psychosocial theory and Bulhan's analysis of identity development within oppressed social groups, and explore how black adolescents may be attempting to negotiate the developmental challenges facing them within the changing socio-historical contexts of post-apartheid South Africa. It explores the impact of apartheid-capitalism on black adolescent identity development, as well as the impact of severa…
Racialised’ Discourses
Since 1993 there have been increasing reports of ‘racial’ tensions within South Africa's black populace. Blacks labelled as ‘coloured’ appear to be expressing increased perceptions of ‘racial’ threat in relation to blacks labelled as ‘African’. As discourse is one of the mechanisms through which racist ideology is reproduced, this study examined the ‘racialised’ discourses of seven black adults (i.e. ‘coloureds’) from a Western Cape community. Th…
Advancing Safety as a Fundamental Human Right
T he Montreal Declaration: People's Right to Safety is a timely declaration that recognizes the increasing magnitude, devastating consequences, and structural antecedents of violent injuries internationally. It provides an additional impetus for the safety-promotion sector to address the physical, psychosocial, cultural, and economic conditions that have a fundamental impact on safety, especially within low-income contexts, and to facilitate the …
Using Social Justice, Public Health, and Human Rights to Prevent Violence in South Africa
The University of South Africa's (UNISA) Institute for Social and Health Sciences was formed in mid-1997 following a decision to combine the University's Institute for Behavioral Sciences with its Health Psychology Unit, including its Center for Peace Action. This merger brought together two groups of researcher-practitioners-one from the social sciences and the other from the health sciencesthat had differing but complementary strengths. Several…
Academic representations of ‘race’ and racism in psychology
The South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission
Trends and Redress in Community Psychology during 10 Years of Democracy (1994–2003)
Drawing on a content analysis of selected articles from the South African Journal of Psychology (SAJP) and Psychology in Society (PINS), the authors reflect on the extent to which South African community psychology's early vision resonates in publications in post-1994 South African psychology. Concerned about the Euro-American, patriarchal, classist, and individualised orientation in clinical, counselling, and social psychology, community psychol…
Tactical Reversal or Re-centring Whiteness? A Response to Green, Sonn, and Matsebula
Green, Sonn, and Matsebula (2007) offer critical whiteness studies as a potential form of resistance against the strategic relations of power that constitute racism. While there may be utility in applying and extending international work on whiteness in the South African and Australian contexts, it is important to observe some cautions. First, whiteness manifests differently across contexts, and the type of comparison performed by Green et al. ma…
Men in Africa
At a public lecture in Cape Town earlier this year, Professor \nSandra Harding, an internationally renowned feminist author, \nspoke to the question ‘Can men be subjects of feminist \nthought?’ (1 March 2010, District Six Museum, Cape Town). In \nher talk, Harding called on men to elaborate critically on their \nsubjective experiences and practices of being boys and men – \nfrom childhood to adulthood, and through fatherhood to old age. \nShe arg…
Exploring the Psychological Exteriority and Interiority of Men's Violence Against Women
This study explored male perpetrators subjective experiences of violence against their intimate partners. Participants were a convenience sample of 12 men (11 ‘Black’ and 1 ‘White’, between 18 to 70 years of age) recruited from three organisations in Johannesburg, South Africa. A theory-driven, feminist-psychoanalytic approach embedded within a social constructionist framework was adopted for the study. Interview transcripts revealed three centra…
Through her Eyes
We explore the relational nature of race and racism as manifested in women's narratives within the Apartheid Archive Project—a compendium of narratives related to quotidian apartheid experiences generated by “ordinary” people. We argue that apartheid was not only a system of interconnected social, political and economic structures that oppressed, but that it required those who lived under it to enforce it in supremely intimate ways. It is from wi…
O5-3.1 Global, regional and national trends in metabolic risk factors of chronic diseases
Introduction Information on levels and trends of risk factors is essential for policy making. However, very few comprehensive and consistent global estimates are available. We collected a global database of population level summaries of systolic blood pressure (SBP), body mass index (BMI), serum total cholesterol (TC) and fasting plasma glucose (FPG) and estimated levels and trends since 1980. Methods For each risk factor, we searched for publish…
Of narratives and nostalgia
This article provides an introduction to and outlines the rationale for the focus of this special issue, Of Narratives and Nostalgia. It therefore provides a broad description of the Apartheid Archive Project, which had served as the platform for the development of all the articles contained in this special issue. Additionally, it sketches the broad contours of, and interrogates, some of the key theoretical constructs that recur across the articl…
Textual transformations of subjectivity in men’s talk of gender-based violence
This study examined how men accounted for their violent behaviours against their intimate female partners. In-depth qualitative interviews were conducted with 12 men from three men’s groups in Johannesburg, South Africa. All the men self-reported that they had committed acts of intimate partner violence previously, and the majority were from low-income, township settings. Dissociations, justifications and confessions featured as the predominant a…
Continuous traumatic stress
Living through the legacy
The Apartheid Archive Project is an ongoing, collaborative research project that focuses on the collection of personal stories and narrative accounts from ordinary South Africans about their experiences of racism during apartheid. The primary aim of this initiative is to provide a forum for differing sectors of South African society to share and reflect on their past experiences, in the hope that these will offer us an array of alternative entry …
Bridging risk and enactment
In the wake of apartheid, many in the South African health and social sciences shifted their orientation to understanding violence. Rather than approaching violence as a criminal problem, post-apartheid scholarship surfaced violence as a threat to national health. This re-orientation was well aligned with a global groundswell that culminated in the World Health Assembly’s 1996 declaration of violence as a public health problem. In response, resea…
The clinician in the university
There is increasing interest, both internationally and in South Africa, in strengthening the relationship between psychoanalytic practice and research. This paper reports on a psychoanalytically oriented doctoral programme offered at the University of the Witwatersrand in South Africa. The programme is described in relation to the broader context of the historical relationship of psychoanalysis to the university as well as to the specific context…
The second wave of violence scholarship
Transnational perspectives on Black subjectivity
In this article, five Black researchers bring their insights into conversation about meanings of blackness in contemporary Australia, Jamaica, South Africa, the United Kingdom, and the United States of America. We critically interrogate blackness transnationally and also within the historical contexts of our work and lived experiences. Situated within critical race studies, we draw on multiple theoretical frameworks that seek to preserve the comp…
Histórias do apartheid, memória e pertencimento entre a população da diáspora sul-africana na Austrália
It has been more than 20 years since the removal of the apartheid system, yet, for those who lived in apartheid South Africa, racialization remains a central feature of their subjectivity both inside and outside of the country. For the South African diaspora in Australia there are contextually specific psychosocial processes, socio-structural arrangements, and meaning systems that need to be negotiated, including the relationship with their home …
Raced Repetition
This article engages with key contemporary questions about the extent to which the obstinacy of racial formation processes, as well as the apparent global resurgence of raced thinking, represent a paralysis of the global anti-racist project or signal an important analytic opportunity for revitalising critical race scholarship and anti-racist praxis. To this end, it is incumbent upon critical race scholars and practitioners to take stock of their …
Poised for promise or on the precipice of precarity? Reflections on the 1994 launch of the psychological society of South Africa
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