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Thembisa
Waetjen Senior Lecturer |
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My training is in the discipline of Sociology: I completed my BA at the University of California, Berkeley in Sociology in 1985, and my MA and Ph.D at the University of Oregon in 1997. My sub-disciplinary areas were in gender, political sociology, and theory.
<Research> I am interested in politics of gender and culture, and the way they inform debates about modernity and national identity. My Ph.D thesis "Workers and Warriors: Masculinity and the Struggle for Nation in South Africa" explored these themes in the case of Inkatha during the 1980s, and was published by the University of Illinois Press in 2004 and by the HSRC press in 2006. I am currently working on two projects on mid-20th century Durban which highlight the role of civic organizations and initiatives in shaping the conditions of modernity within its formally segregated spaces. Additionally, my colleague Goolam Vahed and I are editing a series of letters between Ahmed Kathrada and Zuleikha Mayat between 1979-1989. |
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| <Teaching> I teach the first year Internet Studies course, "News Media and the Internet Society". I also lecture in History: a second year course, "Law and Society", and-with my colleague Keith Breckenridge, the honours level seminar "African States in Comparative Perspective". Before coming to UKZN, my teaching was in Feminist Studies and in Sociology, with courses such as Political Sociology, Development studies, Feminist Theory, Social Inequalities, Sociology of the Body, and Deviance and Social Control. I have also taught in the pre-First Year "Access" programmes both at UKZN and at University of Oregon, with courses in African and U.S. History. | |
