- Nationality
- 🇿🇦 South Africa
- Affiliation
- Department of Political Science, Stellenbosch University, South Africa
- Field of study
- Social Sciences
- Residencies at STIAS
- 2025 2nd Semester 2020 2nd Semester
Projects
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Gender in Turbulent Times: Sexual Violence, Bare Life and Necropolitics
Gender based violence and sexual violence in specific have reached unprecedented levels in countries in the Global North and South. -
White Women Engaging Black Lives Matter: Problematizing Solidarity in a Time of Identity Politics
The brutal police killing of George Floyd in America on 25 May 2020 has led to global mass protest action through the Black Lives Matter (BLM) movement against police brutality and other institutionalized forms of violence against Black people.
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Gender in turbulent times - Fellows' seminar by Amanda Gouws
Gender-based violence and sexual violence, in specific, have reached unprecedented levels in countries in the Global North and South.
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What’s a White woman to do? White women engaging Black Lives Matter: Problematising solidarity in a time of identity politics - Fellows' seminar by Amanda Gouws, Azille Coetzee and Louise du Toit
Twenty-six years into democracy South Africans remain deeply troubled by race, said Amanda Gouws of the Department of Political Science at Stellenbosch University.