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- Critically analysis how racialisation, class and gender intersect to produce life histories and futures of black women scientists in post-apartheid South African Universities
- Demonstrates how we can use narrative inquiry to provide a framework for theorising psychosocial transformation
- Explores how black women co-construct, deconstruct, and reconstruct their identities as scientists in post-apartheid South Africa
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Table of contents (9 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
About this book
This book presents an innovative narrative methodology, utilising the myth of the Minotaur to examine the state of the university at the heart of the hierarchical labyrinth in “post”-apartheid South Africa. Throughout the work the author wrestles with and self-reflexively highlights her own positionality as a white, middle-class South African woman to examine how this affects the production of this research in ways which serve to preserve the colonial knowledge system. With the rise of the Rhodes Must Fall and Fees Must Fall student movement in South Africa, demanding for the fall of institutionalised racial hierarchies, the author uses the cover image of narrative formations in the spirit of exploration to think with and through undulating networked forms that could possibly forge new psychosocial pathways towards decolonising and reinventing South African universities. This work offers a unique conceptual and methodological resource for students and scholars of psychosocial and narrative theory, as well as those who are concerned about the politics of higher education, both in South Africa and in other contexts around the world.
Keywords
- Psychosocial studies
- Decoloniality
- feminist narrative research
- post-apartheid South Africa
- critical race theory
- Gender and Education
- Visual methodology
- Narrative methods
- Relational selves
- Intersectionality
- Black women scientists
- Hermeneutic phenomenology
- Biographic narrative
- Education Policy
- STEM education
- decolonizing education
Authors and Affiliations
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Psychology, University of Pretoria, Tshwane, South Africa
Sabrina Liccardo
About the author
Sabrina Liccardo is a lecturer in the Department of Psychology at the University of Pretoria, South Africa. Her primary interest is in developing visual arts-based, community-engaged and experimental qualitative (narrative) methodologies that explore the material, discursive and symbolic practices of psychosocial reproduction and transformation in higher education institutions in South Africa.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Psychosocial Pathways Towards Reinventing the South African University
Book Subtitle: Wrestling with the Ghost of a Bull
Authors: Sabrina Liccardo
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-49036-2
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Behavioral Science and Psychology, Behavioral Science and Psychology (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG, part of Springer Nature 2020
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-49035-5Published: 03 November 2020
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-49038-6Published: 03 November 2021
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-49036-2Published: 02 November 2020
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXI, 567
Number of Illustrations: 37 illustrations in colour
Topics: Personality and Social Psychology, Psychological Methods/Evaluation, Education, general, Gender Studies, Postcolonial Philosophy