Historical Trauma and Transformation
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Professor Pumla Gobodo-Madikizela

Dr. Samantha van Schalkwyk

Dr. Melike Fourie

Landi Meiring

Dr Kim Wale​ 

Dr Nancy Rushohora

Dr Marietjie Oelofsen

Dr Emery Kalema

Dr. Khan Touseef Osman

Dr. Richard M. Benda


Prof. Pumla Gobodo-Madikizela

Books

Gobodo-Madikizela, P. (Ed.) (Forthcoming October 2018). History, Trauma and Shame: Engaging the Past through Second Generation Dialogue. London: Routledge. 

Gobodo-Madikizela, P. (Ed.) (2016). Breaking Intergenerational Cycles of Repetition: A Global Dialogue on Historical Trauma and Memory. Cologne and Leverkusen, Germany: Budrich Academic Press. [Link]

Van Schalkwyk, S. & Gobodo-Madikizela[E1] , P. (Eds.) (2016). A Reflexive Inquiry into Gender Research: Towards a New Paradigm of Knowledge Production and Exploring New Frontiers of Gender Research in Southern Africa. Newcastle upon Tyne, UK: Cambridge Scholars Publishing. [Link]

Gobodo-Madikizela, P. (2016). What Does it Mean to be Human After Historical Trauma: Re-envisioning the Holocaust and Why Hannah Arendt Was Wrong (Extended Essay).  Uppsala: Uppsala University. [Link]

Gobodo-Madikizela, P. (2014). Dare We Hope: Facing Our Past to Find a New Future. Cape Town: Tafelberg. [Link]

Book Chapters

Gobodo-Madikizela, P. (2020). Aesthetics of Memory, Witness to Violence and a Call to Repair. In K. Wale, P. Gobodo-Madikizela, & J. Prager (Eds.) Post-Conflict Hauntings (pp. 177-202). (pp. 119-149). Palgrave Macmillan.

Gobodo-Madikizela, P. (2020). Empathic repair in the aftermath of mass violence and trauma: Is it possible to repair the past?. In History, Trauma and Shame: Engaging the Past through Second Generation Dialogue (pp. 19-37). Routledge.

Gobodo-Madikizela, P. (2019). Moral Imagination: Stories that Inspire a Quest for Change. In L. J. Claassens, C. van der Walt, & F. O. Olojede (Eds.), Teaching for Change: Essays on Pedagogy, Gender and Theology in Africa (pp. 1-12). Sun Press.

Gobodo-Madikizela, P. (2017). Forgiveness is 'the wrong word': Empathic Repair and the Potential for Human Connection in the Aftermath of Historical Trauma. In M. Lerner & C. Schliesser (eds.), Alternative Approaches in Conflict Resolution (pp. 111-124). Cham: Switzerland. [Link]

Gobodo-Madikizela, P. (2017). Intersubjectivity and embodiment: Exploring the role of the maternal in the language of forgiveness and reconciliation. In Norlock K.J. (ed.), The Moral Psychology of Forgiveness (pp. 1-15). London: Rowman & Littlefield. [Link]

Fourie M. M., Subramoney, S., Gobodo-Madikizela, P. (2017). A less attractive feature of empathy: Intergroup empathy bias. In Makiko Kondo (Ed.). Empathy: An Evidence-based Interdisciplinary Perspective. InTech, OpenScience.

Gobodo-Madikizela, P. (2016). Psychoanalysis and Reconciliation. In A. Elliot & J. Prager (Eds.), Routledge Handbook of Psychoanalysis in the Social Sciences and Humanities. New York: Routledge. [Link]

Gobodo-Madikizela, P. (2016). Introduction: Breaking Intergenerational Cycles of Repetition. In P. Gobodo-Madikizela (ed.), Breaking Intergenerational Cycles of Repetition: A Global Dialogue on Historical Trauma (pp. 1-11). Cologne and Leverkusen, Germany: Budrich Academic Press. [Link]

Gobodo-Madikizela, P. (2016). Interrupting Cycles of Repetition: Creating Spaces for Dialogue, Facing and Mourning the Past. In P. Gobodo-Madikizela (Ed.) Breaking Intergenerational Cycles of Repetition: A Global Dialogue on Historical Trauma and Memory (pp. 113-134). Cologne and Leverkusen, Germany: Budrich Academic Press. [Link]

Van Schalkwyk, S. & Gobodo-Madikizela, P. (2015). Introduction. In S. van Schalkwyk and P. Gobodo-Madikizela (eds.), A Reflexive Inquiry into Gender Research: Towards a New Paradigm of Knowledge Production & Exploring New Frontiers of Gender Research in Southern Africa (pp. xi-xxxv). Cambridge Scholars Publishing: United Kingdom. [Link]

Van Schalkwyk, S. Boonzaier, F. & Gobodo-Madikizela, P. (2015). Woman abuse in South Africa: Reflecting on the complexity of women's decisions to leave abusive men. In S. van Schalkwyk and P. Gobodo-Madikizela (eds.), A Reflexive Inquiry into Gender Research: Towards a New Paradigm of Knowledge Production & Exploring New Frontiers of Gender Research in Southern Africa (pp. 47-67). Newcastle upon Tyne, UK: Cambridge Scholars Publishing. [Link]

Journal Publications

Githaiga, J. N., Gobodo-Madikizela, P., & Wahl, W. P. (2017). 'They dug up wounds': University of the Free State students' experiences of transformation and integration in campus residences. Race Ethnicity and Education, 1-18. doi: 10.1080/13613324.2017.1376633. Link  

Fourie, M.M., Stein, D.J., Solms, M., Gobodo-Madikizela, P., & Decety, J. (2017). Empathy and moral emotions in post-apartheid South-Africa: An fMRI investigation. Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience, 1-12. doi: 10.1093/scan/nsx019. [Link]

Gobodo-Madikizela, P. (2016). What Does It Mean to be Human in the Aftermath of Mass Trauma and Violence? Towards the Horizon of an Ethics of Care. Journal of the Society of Christian Ethics, 36(2), 64-91. [Link]

Gobodo-Madikizela, P. (2015). Psychological Repair: The Intersubjective Dialogue of Remorse and Forgiveness in the Aftermath of Gross Human Rights Violations. Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association, 63, 1085-1123. [Link]

Gobodo-Madikizela, P., Fish, J., & Shefer, T. (2014). Gendered Violence: Continuities and Transformation in the Aftermath of Conflict in Africa. Signs:Journal of Women and Culture in Society, 40(1). [Link]

Safier, R. & Gobodo-Madikizela, P. (2014). Conversation between Ruth Safier and Pumla Gobodo-Madikizela on Remembering the past: Nostalgia, traumatic memory and the legacy of apartheid. Peace and Conflict:Journal of Peace Psychology, 20(7), 95-9

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Locher, S.C., Barenblatt, L., Fourie, M.M., Stein, D.J., & Gobodo-Madikizela, P. (2014). Empathy and childhood maltreatment: A mixed-methods investigation. Annals of Clinical Psychiatry, 26(2), 97-110. [Link]

Van Schalkwyk, S., Boonzaier, F., & Gobodo-Madikizela, P. (2014). Selves in contradiction: Power and powerlessness in South African shelter residents' narratives of leaving abusive heterosexual relationships. Feminism & Psychology, 24(3), 314-331. [Link]

 

Dr Kim Wale​

Books

Wale, K; Gobodo-Madikizela, P & Prager, J (eds.) (forthcoming 2020). Post-Conflict Hauntings: Transforming Memories of Historical Trauma. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan.

Wale, K. (2016). South Africa's Struggle to Remember: Contested memories of squatter resistance in the Western Cape. London: Routledge. [Link]

Alexander, P., Ceruti, C., Motseke, K., Phadi M. & Wale, K. (Eds.). (2013). Class in Soweto.  South Africa: UKZN Press.

Chapters:

Wale, K. (2020). Intergenerational Nostalgic Haunting and Critical Hope: Memories of Loss and Longing in Bonteheuwel. In K. Wale, P. Gobodo-Madikizela, & J. Prager (Eds.) Post-Conflict Hauntings (pp. 203-227). Palgrave Macmillan.

Wale, K. (Forthcoming, 2020). Intergenerational Nostalgic Haunting and Critical Hope: Memories of Loss and Longing in Bonteheuwel. In Wale, K.; Gobodo-Madikizela, P. & Prager, J. (Eds.) Post-Conflict hauntings: Transforming memories of historical trauma. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan.

Wale, K. (2017). Performing and resisting the post-TRC 'trauma-drama': Survivors narratives of past and present violence in South Africa. In M, Swart, & van Marle, K. (eds.) The Limits of Transition: The South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission Twenty Years On (pp. 121-146). Brill | Nijhoff: The Netherlands.

Foster, D. & Wale, K. (2017). Contact and reconciliation. In Lefko-Everett, K., Govender, J. & Foster, D. (eds.) Rethinking Reconciliation: Evidence from South Africa (pp. 69-85). Cape Town: HSRC Press.

Wale, K (2013) Perceptions of class mobility. In P. Alexander, C. Ceruti, K. Motseke, M. Phadi & K. Wale (Eds.). Class in Soweto.  South Africa: UKZN Press.

Journal Publications

Wale, K. (2019). Towards Critical Cultural Openness: (In)vulnerability in white student narratives of transformation in South Africa. Ethnic and Racial Studies, Published online 30 July 2019. DOI: 10.1080/01419870.2019.1642502

Wale K. (2016). Falling through the cracks of South Africa's liberation struggle: Comrades counter-memories of squatter resistance in the 1980s. Journal of Southern African Studies42(6), 1193-1206. [Link]

Wale, K. & Foster, D. (2007) Investing in Discourses of Poverty and Development: How White, Wealthy South Africans Mobilize Meaning to Maintain Privilege. South African Review of Sociology, 38 (1)

Kelly, C; Wale, K; Soudien, C. & Steyn, M (2007) Aligning the “Rubrik" Cube: Conceptualizing Transformative Diversity Practice. South African Journal of Labour Relation, 31 (2)

Op-eds, Researched Reports and Published Conference Proceedings

Wale, K. & Basson, A. (2019). SA has a legacy of trauma. Mail & Guardian, 20 September 2019.

Wale K. (2019). Apartheid Ghosts live on. Cape Argus, 23 April 2019

Wale, K. (2019). Betrayal adds to apartheid trauma. Mail & Guardian, 22 February 2019.

Wale, K. (2019). Intergenerational Nostalgia: Loss and Longing in Bonteheuwel. Historical Trauma and Memory: Living with the Haunting Power of the Past, Kigali, Rwanda, 4-6 April 2018. Historical Trauma and Transformation, Stellenbosch

Wale, K (2014). Reflecting on Reconciliation: Lessons from the past, prospects for the future. South African Reconciliation Barometer. Institute for Justice and Reconciliation

Wale, K (2013). Confronting Exclusion: Time for Radical Reconciliation. South African Reconciliation Barometer Survey Report. Institute for Justice and Reconciliation.

 

Dr Samantha Van Schalkwyk

Books

Van Schalkwyk, S. (Forthcoming July 2018). Narrative Landscapes of Female Sexuality in Africa: Collective Stories of Trauma and Transition. Palgrave Macmillan.

Van Schalkwyk, S. & Gobodo-Madikizela, P. (Eds.) (2015). A Reflexive Inquiry into Gender Research: Towards a New Paradigm of Knowledge Production & Exploring New Frontiers of Gender Research in Southern Africa. Newcastle upon Tyne, UK: Cambridge Scholars Publishing. [Link] 

Chapters

Van Schalkwyk, S. & Gobodo-Madikizela, P. (2015). Introduction. In S. van Schalkwyk and P. Gobodo-Madikizela (eds.), A Reflexive Inquiry into Gender Research: Towards a New Paradigm of Knowledge Production & Exploring New Frontiers of Gender Research in Southern Africa (pp. xi-xxxv). C Newcastle upon Tyne, UK: Cambridge Scholars Publishing. [Link]

Journal Publications

Van Schalkwyk, S. Boonzaier, F. & Gobodo-Madikizela, P. (2015). Woman abuse in South Africa: Reflecting on the complexity of women's decisions to leave abusive men. In S. van Schalkwyk and P. Gobodo-Madikizela (eds.), A Reflexive Inquiry into Gender Research: Towards a New Paradigm of Knowledge Production & Exploring New Frontiers of Gender Research in Southern Africa, 47-67. Cambridge Scholars Publishing: United Kingdom. [Link]

Van Schalkwyk, S., Boonzaier, F., & Gobodo-Madikizela, P. (2014). Selves in contradiction: Power and powerlessness in South African shelter residents' narratives of leaving abusive heterosexual relationships. Feminism & Psychology, 24(3), 314-331. [Link]

 

Dr Melike Fourie

Journal Publications

Fourie, M.M., Hortensius, R., & Decety, J. (2020). Parsing the components of forgiveness: Psychological and neural mechanisms. Neuroscience and Biobehavioral Reviews, 112, 437-451 [https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neubiorev.2020.02.020]

Fourie, M.M., Stein, D.J., Solms, M., Gobodo-Madikizela, P., & Decety, J. (2019). Effects of early adversity and social discrimination on empathy for complex mental states: An fMRI investigation. Scientific Reports, 9, 12959 https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-019-49298-4

Fourie, M.M., Stein, D.J., Solms, M., Gobodo-Madikizela, P., & Decety, J. (2017). Empathy and moral emotions in post-apartheid South-Africa: An fMRI investigation. Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience.[Link]

Fourie, M.M., Thomas, K.G.F., Amodio, D.M., Warton, C.M.R., & Meintjes, E.M. (2014). Neural correlates of experienced moral emotion: An fMRI investigation of emotion in response to prejudice feedback. Social Neuroscience, 9, 203-218. [Link]

Locher, S.C., Barenblatt, L., Fourie, M.M., Stein, D.J., & Gobodo-Madikizela, P. (2014). Empathy and childhood maltreatment: A mixed-methods investigation. Annals of Clinical Psychiatry, 26(2), 97-110. [Link]

Meiring, L., Subramoney, S., Thomas, K.G.F., Decety, J., & Fourie, M.M. (2014). Empathy and helping: Effects of racial group membership and cognitive load. South AfricanJournal of Psychology, 44(4), 426-438. [Link]

Chapters

Benjamin, L., & Fourie, M.M. (2019). The intergenerational effects of mass trauma in sculpting new perpetrators. In S.C. Knittel & Z.J. Goldberg (Eds.), The Routledge International Handbook of Perpetrator Studies. (pp. 276-286). Germany: Routledge [https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315102887]

Fourie, M.M., Subramoney, S., & Gobodo-Madikizela, P. (2017). A less attractive feature of empathy: Intergroup empathy bias. In Makiko Kondo (Ed.), Empathy¾An Evidence-based Interdisciplinary Perspective (pp. 45-61). InTech. ISBN 978-953-51-5420-4

Fourie, M.M., Gobodo-Madikizela, P., Stein, D.J. (2013). Empathy and forgiveness in South Africa: The Truth and Reconciliation Commission. In M. Linden & K. Rutkowski, (Eds.), Hurting memories and beneficial forgetting (pp. 227-240). London: Elsevier Inc. [https://doi.org/10.1016/B978-0-12-398393-0.00019-5]


Dr Emery Kalema

Peer-reviewed articles and book chapters

Published:

  • Kalema, E. (2020). “Religion et Médecine au Congo : Pratiques et Savoirs des Assistants Médicaux 'Indigènes' Issus de Kisantu (Fomulac) et de leurs Patients (1937-1960)" [Religion and Medicine in the Congo: Practices and Knowledge of 'Indigenous' Medical Assistants from Kisantu (Fomulac) and their Patients (1937-1960)]. In V. Viaene, B. Cleys & J. De Maeyer (eds), Religion, Colonization and Decolonization in Congo, 1885–1960/Religion, Colonisation et Décolonisation au Congo, 1885–1960, pp. 191-208. Leuven University Press.
  • The Mulele “Rebellion," Congolese Regimes, and the Politics of Forgetting. Cahiers d'Etudes Africaines, LIX (3), no. 235, 2019, pp. 747-781.
  • Scars, Marked Bodies, and Suffering: The Mulele 'Rebellion' in Postcolonial Congo. Journal of African History, vol. 59, no. 2, July 2018, pp. 263-282.

Forthcoming:

  • The Politics of Enmity in Postcolonial Congo (Journal article to appear in Critical African Studies - Special Issue titled Exploring Colonial Durabilities in the Great Lakes Region. Forthcoming, September 2020).


Landi Meiring  

Journal Publications

Meiring, L., Subramoney, S., Thomas, K.G.F., Decety, J., & Fourie, M.M. (2014). Empathy and helping: Effects of racial group membership and cognitive load. South AfricanJournal of Psychology, 44(4), 426-438. [Link]

 

Dr Marietjie Oelofsen

Oelofsen, M. (2020). Listening for the Quiet Violence in the Unspoken. In K. Wale, P. Gobodo-Madikizela, & J. Prager (Eds.) Post-Conflict Hauntings (pp. 177-202). Palgrave Macmillan.

Malila, V., Oelofsen, M., Garman, A., & Wasserman, H. (2013). Making meaning of citizenship: How ‘born frees’ use media in South Africa's democratic evolution. Communication: South African Journal for Communication Theory and Research, 39(4), 415-431. doi:10.1080/02500167.2013.8525

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Oelofsen, M. (2017). Book review: Dobson, Andrew. Listening for Democracy – Recognition, Representation, Reconciliation. Oxford University Press, 2014. Journal of Public Deliberation, 13(2). [Link]

Malila, V., & Oelofsen, M. (2016). Young citizens in South Africa: A paradox of engagement with politics and the media. Journal of African Media Studies, 8 (2), 187-203. doi: 10.1386/jams.8.2.187_1. [Link]

Oelofsen, M. (2014). Book review: Levine, Peter. We are the ones we have been waiting for, Oxford University Press, 2013. Higher Education Exchange (2014), 80-84. [Link]

 

Dr. Nancy Rushohora

Book chapters

Rushohora, N. (2020). The Challenges of Teaching the Majimaji War in Tanzania. In J. Wasserman, & D. Bentrovato (Eds), Teaching African History in Schools: Experience and Perspectives from Africa and Beyond, 107-123. Brill Sense.

Journal Publications

Rushohora, N. (2020) The Challenges of Teaching the Majimaji War in Tanzania. In Wasserman, J. and Bentrovato, D. (Eds). Teaching African History in Schools: Experience and Perspectives from Africa and Beyond. Brill

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Rushohora, N. (2019). Desperate Mourning and Atrophied Representation: A Tale of Two Skulls. African Historical Review, 51(1), 25-45.  https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1080/17532523.2019.1626064

Rushohora, A.R and Silayo, V.V. (2019) Cults, Crosses and Crescents: Religion and Healing from Colonial Violence in Tanzania. Religions 2019, 10, 519.  https://www.mdpi.com/2077-1444/10/9/519

Rushohora, NA. (2019) Graves, Houses of Pain and Execution: Memories of the German Prisons after the Majimaji War in Tanzania (1904–1908). The Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History, 47(2), 275-299. https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/03086534.2019.1605697

Rushohora, N. A. (2019). Facts and fictions of the Majimaji war graves in southern Tanzania. African Archaeological Review, 36(1), 145-159. https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10437-019-09324-2

Rushohora, N., & Kurmann, E. (2018). Look at Majimaji! A Plea for Historical Photographs in Tanzania. African Studies77(1), 87

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Rushohora, N. (2017). German Colonial Missionaries and the Majimaji Memorials in Southern Tanzania. Journal of Social History50(3), 481-501.

Rushohora, N. (2017). Theorising the Majimaji–Landscape, Memory and Agency. Journal of African Cultural Heritage Studies1(1), 5-15.


Dr Richard M. Benda

Publications

'BBC and Genocide in Rwanda: Conflict of Competence over post-genocide narrative.' in E-International Relations, November 2014. http://www.e-ir.info/2014/11/17/bbc-and-genocide-in-rwanda-conflict-of-competence-over-post-genocide-narrative/

'Church, Humanitarianism and Genocide in Rwanda: Beyond Criticism and Apology' in ODI (2016), Learning from the past to shape the future: lessons from the history of humanitarian action in Africa. https://www.odi.org/publications/10582-learning-past-shape-future-lessons-history-humanitarian-action-africa

Youth Connect Dialogue: Unwanted legacies, Responsibility and Nation-building in Rwanda. Aegis Trust.  2017.

'Time to hear the other side:  transitional temporalities and transgenerational narratives in post-genocide Rwanda' in Natascha Mueller-Hirth and Sandra Rios Oyola, eds. (2018), Time and Temporality in the Study of transitional  post-conflict society. Oxford: Routledge.

Promising generations: From Intergenerational guilt to Ndi Umunyarwanda' In Hannah Grayson and Nicki Hitchcott, eds. (2019),  Rwanda After 1994: Stories of Change. Liverpool – Chicago. LUP (UK) & the University of Chicago Press (US).

' The State as a parent: Reframing parent-child relations in Rwanda'. Co-authored with Kirrily Pells in Families, Relationships and Societies (special issue 24, 2020).

Contribution (Translation

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Keady, J., Klutz, T.; Strine C.A. (2018). Scripture as Social Discourse. Social-scientific perspective on Early Jewish and Christian Writings. Oxford. T&T Clark (Bloomsbury). Translation from French to English of essays 2, 7 & 10.