Project
Playing at/against power: Histories of Trauma and Abuse in South African Music-Pedagogical Spaces
The proposed project builds on some of my earlier work on music and violence, and is born of the politico-ethical imperative to break the silence surrounding structural violence and abuse in institutionalised spaces devoted to music pedagogy: the lecture room, the teaching studio, the community project.
Publication
Blackness at the Intersection
Recommended Citation Batra, K. (2025). Kimberlé W. Crenshaw, Kehinde Andrews, and Annabel Wilson, eds. Blackness at the Intersection....
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Inhospitable Places: Feminist Thinking on Whiteness, Men, and Various Kinds of Women in South African contexts
Inhospitable Places is a feminist project that works with thinking about race, gender and class in contemporary South African contexts.
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The whiteness of Afrikaans literary feminism
In (Black Afrikaans poet) Ronelda Kamfer’s collection Chinatown(2019), she criticises canonical Afrikaans white women poets for their implied complicity with apartheid and continued white hegemony within the Afrikaans literary sphere.
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Cartographies of Hospitality The Gendered, Racialised, and Classed Politics of Hosting
Hospitality has become an increasingly important theme in the contemporary discourse of migration.
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Reading black middle-classness
For this project I am reading the burgeoning publication of essays that tackle black middle-classness and related aspects such as masculinities, femininities and race - indeed, intersections of these.
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A transdisciplinary analysis of the role of social identity on performance under social stratification and stigmatisation
The emergent fields of stratification economics and identity economics offer new theoretical insights for explaining economic inequality, specifically the unique role that intersectionality (the existence of multiple social identities) might play.
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‘Maids’ and ‘Madams’ in Caribbean and South African Women’s Texts: Approximations of Feminist Solidarity?
This project engages with the possibility for solidarity between women across differences of race, class and sexuality as it is represented in a range of artistic forms (poetry, fiction and visual images) created by women from the Anglophone Caribbean and South Africa.
