The second wave of violence scholarship: South African synergies with a global research agenda

Bowman, Brett; Stevens, Garth; Eagle, Gillian; Langa, Malose; Kramer, Sherianne; Kiguwa, Peace; Nduna, Mzikazi

doi:10.1016/j.socscimed.2015.10.014

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“…Following Paret (2015), I note that violence is an ambiguous concept for which there is no one definition. However, Bowman et al (2015) warn that the variability in how violence is defined has resulted in a number of challenges. Following Zizek (2009), they assert that a lack of interdisciplinary understandings of violence leads to.…”

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“…Finally, I think through what a scholarly agenda of rage would look like in South African psychology and the implications of this for advancing the decolonial agenda. In thinking about protests and subjectivity, I take direction from Bowman et al (2015) who offer a balance between the systemic and subjectivity. I contend that rage encapsulates this theoretical interface between the systemic and subjective.…”

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“…I contend that rage encapsulates this theoretical interface between the systemic and subjective. In thinking about violence studies, Bowman et al (2015) argue for ‘. .…”

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Theorising community rage for decolonial action

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2018

South African Journal of Psychology

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Rage is under-theorised in South Africa. This absence is more pronounced in psychological scholarship. This is a remarkable oversight since we have gained infamy as the world’s epicentre of protest action. In this article, I read the landscape of scholarly production to conduct an analysis of how community rage and protests are made sense of. The analysis focuses on work from the past decade as it has been reported that this period has witnessed the greatest intensity of protest action within the post-apartheid period. I contend that protests are a form of community rage at sedimented oppressions. I demonstrate that the expression of community rage provides us the opportunity to work towards our collective decolonisation. In this analysis, I offer that affective meaning making in the theorisation of rage can craft a scholarship that enables praxis towards decolonial action.

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Theorising community rage for decolonial action

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2018

South African Journal of Psychology

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“…There are multiple causal pathways to violence in South Africa, with historical roots in “structural inequality, socio-cultural tolerance of violence, militarised masculinity, disrupted community and family life, and the erosion of social capital” [9]. Gender power inequity [10] and a history of racial discrimination and marginalisation also play an integral role.…”

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From fear to resilience: adolescents’ experiences of violence in inner-city Johannesburg, South Africa

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BackgroundFor adolescents growing up in poor urban South African settings, violence is often a part of daily life and has lasting effects on physical and mental health outcomes in adulthood. We conducted a qualitative study to document and understand the forms of interpersonal violence experienced by adolescents living in Hillbrow, Johannesburg. In this article, we explore how violence is experienced differently by adolescent boys and girls, how they conceptualise ‘dangerous’ and ‘safe’ spaces in their neighbourhood and what gaps exist in available services for youth in Hillbrow.MethodsThe article draws on data collected in the formative phase of the ‘Wellbeing of Adolescents in Vulnerable Environments’ (WAVE) Study of challenges faced by adolescents (15–19 years) growing up in impoverished parts of five cities. This article reports on analysis using only data from the Johannesburg site. Using both purposive and snowball sampling to select participants, we conducted in-depth interviews (n = 20) and community mapping exercises with female (n = 19) and male (n = 20) adolescents living in Hillbrow, as well as key informant interviews with representatives of residential shelters, CBOs, and NGOs working with youth (n = 17). Transcripts were coded manually and analysed using an inductive thematic analysis approach.ResultsBoth girls and boys reported high exposure to witnessing violence and crime. For girls, the threat of sexual harassment and violence was pervasive, while boys feared local gangs, the threat of physical violence, and being drawn into substance-abuse. Home was largely a safe haven for boys, whereas for girls it was often a space of sexual violence, abuse and neglect. Some adolescents developed coping mechanisms, such as actively seeking out community theatres, churches and other places of sanctuary from violence. Community-based services and shelters that support adolescents reported a lack of resources, overall instability and difficulties networking effectively.ConclusionsAdolescents in Hillbrow commonly witnessed and had direct experience of many forms of violence in their environment, and these experiences differed markedly by gender. Interventions that build young peoples’ social capital and resilience are essential for reducing violence-related trauma and long-term health and social consequences for adolescents in this community.

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“…Likewise, how do we read and understand gendered violence in society today in ways that do not merely reify particular gendered (raced and classed) bodies and identities as natural "victims" and "perpetrators" and yet still honor the embodied lived experiences of violence? Understanding and developing analytic tools that capture violence's complexity and its influence on social justice and cohesion objectives remain a challenging epistemological and methodological task for social scientists in South Africa today (Bowman, Stevens, Eagle, Langa, Kramer, Kiguwa & Nduna, 2015).…”

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