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29/10/2026

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Forthcoming event! The Black Ecologies in Education Collaboratory is made up of researchers, educators, artists, and community practitioners interested in thinking with Black ecological knowledges and practices in South African education. Stay tuned for more about this event! Registration still open, with limited spaces remaining.

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16/10/2026

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Call for Papers | Feminism & Psychology Special Issue: I am pleased to share this call for papers for a special issue of Feminism & Psychology on Intersectional Violences: Feminist Psychological Perspectives. This special issue seeks to advance contemporary feminist psychological scholarship on violence, with particular attention to intersectionality, absences, invisibilities, and the complex power dynamics that shape experiences and understandings of violence. Contributions from scholars at all career stages are encouraged, including theoretical, empirical, methodological, and practice-focused work. Please consider submitting your work and sharing this opportunity with colleagues and networks. https://lnkd.in/eeU98fQV

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12/10/2026

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𝐑𝐞𝐬𝐩𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐚𝐥𝐢𝐬𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐂𝐚𝐩𝐞 𝐨𝐜𝐞𝐚𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐫𝐨𝐮𝐠𝐡 𝐩𝐥𝐚𝐧𝐞𝐭𝐚𝐫𝐲 𝐚𝐭𝐭𝐞𝐧𝐝𝐢𝐧𝐠

By Hugo ka Canham., Nick Malherbe., & Xolisa Gwadiso

"Pivoting around the oceanic environment of the Western Cape in South Africa, this paper surfaces black geographies of ocean often submerged from view by colonial spatialities and formations. This is done through an analysis of the documentary—The Glow in the Water—that co-produced by the authors as well as interviews we conducted as part of making the film. Despite the colonial apartheid state’s efforts to sever black people’s relations with the ocean, we suggest that black imaginaries of the ocean have not been blunted by efforts to render them ungeographic. The ocean tethers them to shoreline pasts as fishers, their healing practices are bound to the ocean, and through their coastal memories, they root themselves as indigenous to the shore."

Pivoting around the oceanic environment of the Western Cape in South Africa, this paper surfaces black geographies of ocean often submerged from view by colonial spatialities and formations. This i...

25/09/2026

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𝐀𝐭𝐭𝐮𝐧𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐋𝐢𝐛𝐞𝐫𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐏𝐬𝐲𝐜𝐡𝐨𝐥𝐨𝐠𝐲 𝐭𝐨 𝐃𝐞𝐜𝐨𝐥𝐨𝐧𝐢𝐚𝐥 𝐑𝐞𝐟𝐮𝐬𝐚𝐥

By

Nick Malherbe., Shahnaaz Suffla., and Mohamed Seedat

"Reflecting on our community-engaged work in South Africa, we consider in this article what liberation psychology might mean for a praxis of decolonial refusal. In particular, we reflect on the ways by which our community partners have, at different moments and for different purposes, refused (a) totalising and individualised notions of psychological repair, and (b) spatial configurations that did not reflect community voice and sovereignty. We argue that it is in these refusals that liberation psychology has the potential to become a radically agonistic mode of praxis, one that is constituted through the psychosocial struggles and voices of marginalised communities. Attuning liberation psychology to refusal, we conclude, can deepen how liberation psychology practitioners commit to the decolonial project."

https://doi.org/10.1177/00221678261486140

Refusal represents a generative mode of negation, one that not only resists but also opens up possibilities for alternative ways of thinking, being and doing. L...

21/09/2026

Don't forget to register for the public lecture on 𝗕𝗘𝗬𝗢𝗡𝗗 𝗧𝗛𝗘 𝗧𝗢𝗥𝗧𝗨𝗥𝗘 𝗖𝗛𝗔𝗠𝗕𝗘𝗥: 𝗖𝗔𝗥𝗧𝗢𝗚𝗥𝗔𝗣𝗛𝗜𝗘𝗦 𝗢𝗙 𝗚𝗘𝗡𝗢𝗖𝗜𝗗𝗔𝗟 𝗧𝗘𝗥𝗥𝗢𝗥 with Prof Nadera Shalhoub-Kevorkian, as she draws on testimonies from Gaza to rethink torture, suffering, and the conditions under which life is made to continue.

The discussion will be enriched by contributions from 𝐃𝐢𝐬𝐜𝐮𝐬𝐬𝐚𝐧𝐭𝐬:
Prof Ashraf Kagee & Dr Thandi Gamedze.

📅 28 September 2026
🕧 12h30–14h30
📍 Room 1E, School of Government Building, University of the Western Cape, Bellville

📩 RSVP by 𝟮𝟭 𝗦𝗲𝗽𝘁𝗲𝗺𝗯𝗲𝗿 to Ndimakazi Khumalo at [email protected].

𝐄𝐕𝐄𝐍𝐓 𝗥𝗘𝗠𝗜𝗡𝗗𝗘𝗥‼️

Join us for 𝗕𝗘𝗬𝗢𝗡𝗗 𝗧𝗛𝗘 𝗧𝗢𝗥𝗧𝗨𝗥𝗘 𝗖𝗛𝗔𝗠𝗕𝗘𝗥: 𝗖𝗔𝗥𝗧𝗢𝗚𝗥𝗔𝗣𝗛𝗜𝗘𝗦 𝗢𝗙 𝗚𝗘𝗡𝗢𝗖𝗜𝗗𝗔𝗟 𝗧𝗘𝗥𝗥𝗢𝗥 with Prof Nadera Shalhoub-Kevorkian, as she draws on testimonies from Gaza to rethink torture, suffering, and the conditions under which life is made to continue.

The discussion will be enriched by contributions from 𝐃𝐢𝐬𝐜𝐮𝐬𝐬𝐚𝐧𝐭𝐬:
Prof Ashraf Kagee & Dr Thandi Gamedze.

📅 28 September 2026
🕧 12h30–14h30
📍 Room 1E, School of Government Building, University of the Western Cape, Bellville

📩 RSVP by 𝟮𝟭 𝗦𝗲𝗽𝘁𝗲𝗺𝗯𝗲𝗿 to Ndimakazi Khumalo at [email protected].

17/09/2026

17/09/2026

📌 diarise now!

Join the Climate, Environment and Psychology - Psychological Society of South Africa for a webinar on: "Nature, Anticapitalism, Psychology" by Prof Nick Malherbe.

Join via this Teams link: https://teams.microsoft.com/meet/361294116879660?p=hgUdXjSAnVopYAcK7p

16/09/2026

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𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐚𝐟𝐟𝐞𝐜𝐭𝐢𝐯𝐞 𝐜𝐡𝐚𝐫𝐠𝐞 𝐨𝐟 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐃𝐨𝐛𝐬𝐨𝐧𝐯𝐢𝐥𝐥𝐞 𝐧𝐚𝐤𝐞𝐝 𝐛𝐨𝐝𝐲 𝐩𝐫𝐨𝐭𝐞𝐬𝐭 𝐭𝐡𝐫𝐞𝐞 𝐝𝐞𝐜𝐚𝐝𝐞𝐬 𝐥𝐚𝐭𝐞𝐫

By Mpho Mathebula & Hugo ka Canham

15/09/2026

𝐄𝐕𝐄𝐍𝐓 𝗥𝗘𝗠𝗜𝗡𝗗𝗘𝗥‼️

Join us for 𝗕𝗘𝗬𝗢𝗡𝗗 𝗧𝗛𝗘 𝗧𝗢𝗥𝗧𝗨𝗥𝗘 𝗖𝗛𝗔𝗠𝗕𝗘𝗥: 𝗖𝗔𝗥𝗧𝗢𝗚𝗥𝗔𝗣𝗛𝗜𝗘𝗦 𝗢𝗙 𝗚𝗘𝗡𝗢𝗖𝗜𝗗𝗔𝗟 𝗧𝗘𝗥𝗥𝗢𝗥 with Prof Nadera Shalhoub-Kevorkian, as she draws on testimonies from Gaza to rethink torture, suffering, and the conditions under which life is made to continue.

The discussion will be enriched by contributions from 𝐃𝐢𝐬𝐜𝐮𝐬𝐬𝐚𝐧𝐭𝐬:
Prof Ashraf Kagee & Dr Thandi Gamedze.

📅 28 September 2026
🕧 12h30–14h30
📍 Room 1E, School of Government Building, University of the Western Cape, Bellville

📩 RSVP by 𝟮𝟭 𝗦𝗲𝗽𝘁𝗲𝗺𝗯𝗲𝗿 to Ndimakazi Khumalo at [email protected].

14/09/2026

📚 COMING SOON

𝐁𝐥𝐚𝐜𝐤 𝐔𝐧𝐝𝐞𝐫𝐭𝐨𝐰

By Hugo ka Canham

"Meditative and theoretical, Black Undertow reorients the thinking of blackness away from the Atlantic to the African shorelines of the Indian Ocean... Hugo ka Canham listens for what he names the buzz of the undertow, the traces of African ancestors who linger in water, sand, coastal forts, corals, ritual practices, and unruly imaginations along the shore. In tracking these elusive figures, he develops an approach that honors a q***r right to opacity, reconstituting the siloed disciplinarity that imagines African studies, Black studies, Q***r African studies, and Q***r studies as necessarily different"

📖 Published by Duke University Press
🔜 Available December 2026
🔗 https://dukeupress.edu/black-undertow