Papers by Vivienne Bozalek
A Glossary for Doing Postqualitative, New Materialist and Critical Posthumanist Research Across Disciplines, 2021
A Glossary for Doing Postqualitative, New Materialist and Critical Posthumanist Research Across Disciplines, 2021
Social Work/Maatskaplike Werk, 2014
Southern African Journal of Social Work and Social Development
The focus of the article is on injustices towards South African families in postcolonial and neoc... more The focus of the article is on injustices towards South African families in postcolonial and neocolonial contexts, our understanding of which has been greatly enlarged by Nancy Fraser’s conceptualisations of expropriation and imperialism and Jacques Derrida’s notions of hostility and hospitality. We used Walter Benjamin’s and Karen Barad’s montage methods of fragmentary writing to diffractively read expropriation, imperialism, hostility and hospitality through one another in the context of injustices done to South African families. A diffractive methodology entails a close and attentive reading of concepts or pieces of text through one another, to arrive at new insights with regard to a particular issue. The new insights we arrive at in the article are five propositions for ethically engaging in a justice-to-come for social work – that of attentiveness, rendering each other capable, responsibility, response-ability and radical hospitality.
Higher Education Hauntologies
A Glossary for Doing Postqualitative, New Materialist and Critical Posthumanist Research Across Disciplines, 2021
South African Journal of Higher Education, Nov 23, 2011
The notion of pedagogy of hope has been conceptualised and symbolised as a significant conciliato... more The notion of pedagogy of hope has been conceptualised and symbolised as a significant conciliatory and propelling vision for the University of Stellenbosch. Yet few representations of hope engage with the historical and theoretical roots of this notion. These perspectives are crucial to understand in order to provide a foundation on which to build a vision for an institution such as Stellenbosch University, given its past racialised history. This article uses bell hooks' writings on the pedagogy of hope to examine a curriculum project ...
Learning/Work, 2009
324 Critical friends sharing socio-cultural influences on personal and professional identity Vivi... more 324 Critical friends sharing socio-cultural influences on personal and professional identity Vivienne Bozalek and Lear Matthews Introduction The search for innovative ways to enhance the knowledge and skills of adult learners in distinct cultural domains is a challenge familiar to educators. ...
A Glossary for Doing Postqualitative, New Materialist and Critical Posthumanist Research Across Disciplines, 2021
Critical posthumanism, new/feminist materialisms and the affective turn have a great deal in comm... more Critical posthumanism, new/feminist materialisms and the affective turn have a great deal in common with each other, and can be seen as similar perspectives with slightly different emphases in each framework, all focusing on: relational ontologies; a critique of dualisms; and engagements with matter and the non-human. Feminist thinkers such as amongst others, have been identified both as critical posthumanists and new/feminist materialists, and have also contributed to ideas about the affective turn. Many of these scholars have been influenced by the work of Deleuze and Guattari and their notions of monism and vitalism, and have moved beyond the centrality of discourse and cartesian dualisms to incorporate a vision of human/nonhuman, body/mind, subject/object, nature/culture, matter/ meaning, continuity/discontinuity, beginning/returning and creation/renewal (Barad 2007) in their work.
Internationally, there is a growing interest in the potential of care ethics as a useful normativ... more Internationally, there is a growing interest in the potential of care ethics as a useful normative framework to evaluate teaching and learning in higher education. However, to date there has been little engagement with the inherent dangers of care such as those of paternalism and parochialism. This is particularly pertinent in the South African context where there are ongoing struggles to find ways of dealing with continuing inequality experienced by students, who may be at the receiving end of paternalism and parochialism. This article focuses on interviews conducted with teaching and learning practitioners collected during a larger national project on the potential of emerging technologies to achieve qualitative learning outcomes in differently placed South African higher education institutions. An analysis of the interviews indicated that while these lecturers were portrayed as innovative educators, using emerging technologies to enhance their pedagogy, issues of paternalism and ...
It is now widely accepted that the transmission of disciplinary knowledge is insufficient to prep... more It is now widely accepted that the transmission of disciplinary knowledge is insufficient to prepare students leaving higher education for the workplace. Authentic learning has been suggested as a way to bring the necessary complexity into learning to deal with challenges in professional practice after graduation. This study investigates how South African higher educators have used emerging technologies to achieve the characteristics of authentic learning. A survey was administered to a population of 265 higher educators in South Africa who self-identified as engaging with emerging technologies. From this survey, a sample of twenty one respondents were selected to further investigate their practice through in-depth interviewing using Herrington, Reeves & Oliver’s (2010) nine characteristics of authentic learning as a framework. Interrater analysis undertaken by five members of the research team revealed both consistencies and differences among the twenty one cases across the nine el...
Post-Anthropocentric Social Work
Equity & Excellence in Education
ABSTRACT The authors bring together decolonial, place attuned, and critical posthumanist orientat... more ABSTRACT The authors bring together decolonial, place attuned, and critical posthumanist orientations to analyze an event during a residential workshop organized as part of a state-funded research project on decolonizing early childhood discourses in South Africa. An invitation during the workshop to grapple with what might be unsettling by attending to the agency of the more-than-human world and its entanglement with unequal human geographies of place, generated a diffractive photographic image and unsettling stories as a group of early childhood teachers and educational researchers kept re-turning to the data. Working with Barad’s methodology of temporal diffraction as apparatus, we discursively and visually trace entanglements that emerged from this data. We conclude on the mattering of this work for engaging with the potentials and tensions of attending to the more-than-human within highly asymmetrical human relations in the settler colonial context of South African education.
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Papers by Vivienne Bozalek