I am specifically interested in how the idea of white Africanity – its possibilities and constraints – was articulated among dissident whites such as Nadine Gordimer and Ruth First during Apartheid times, and how this notion is being negotiated in the present.
My doctoral dissertation examined the idea of white Africanity in South Africa, homing in on three different time periods during Apartheid, and in our contemporary moment. It is part of the reserach stream Citizenship and Ethnic Relations: Social, Cultural and Historical Perspectives.
I teach at the bachelor program Social and Cultural Analysis (SKA).