About the Author:
Pumla Godobo-Madikizela is Senior Research Professor in Trauma, Forgiveness and Reconciliation at the University of the Free State. Her research is concerned with the question of transformation in the aftermath of mass trauma and violence. Her publications include A Human Being Died that Night: A South African Story of Forgiveness, which won the Alan Paton Award in South Africa, and the Christopher Award in the United States; Narrating our Healing: Perspectives on Healing Trauma, as co-author; and Memory, Narrative and Forgiveness: Perspectives on the Unfinished Journeys of the Past, as co-editor. Samantha van Schalkwyk is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Trauma Forgiveness and Reconciliation Studies at the University of the Free State. Her research interests include gender violence and identity, community-based research methodologies, and the psychosocial aspects of women's agency within the African socio-spatial landscape. She is currently leading a major study on Gender Reconciliation at the University of the Free State. A collaboration with Gender Reconciliation International, the project explores the relational transformation of gender identities in the context of a series of workshops. Her research has been published in peer-reviewed international journals, including Feminism and Psychology.
Review:
"In the course of this deeply thoughtful collection, editors and contributors gather together an enlightening conversation on contemporary feminist and pro-feminist research. The collection ranges over feminist research's relationships to other forms of discourse and practice such as the law and community activism; deconstructs the intersectionalities of gender, 'race', sexuality, class, age and generation; and enquires into the processes and power relations of feminist research itself. This is a book powerfully rooted in South Africa's actualities and histories, which, at the same time, offers feminist and profeminist researchers in the global south and the global north an important agenda for our future thinking, acting and feeling." -Corinne Squire, Professor and Co-director of the Centre for Narrative Research, University of East London "This thoughtful, much-needed book brings together well-known Southern African scholars and scholar-activists and some emerging voices. It challenges students and experienced scholars to think in radical terms about historical and contemporary knowledge about research methodology, gender studies and African studies. This amazing work has also something to offer to those engaged in trauma healing and human security. With brilliance and clarity, this book makes a compelling argument for the development of an ethically based reflexivity in research" -Margareta Hyden, Professor, Linkoping University, Sweden, and the University of Manchester
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