Dr. Mandisi Majavu
Phone: + 27 (0) 603 8807
Email: m.majavu@ru.ac.za
Qualifications:
BA (Unisa), BA Honours (UCT), MA (UCT), PhD (University of Auckland)
Biography
Dr Mandisi Majavu is Senior Lecturer in the Department of Political and International Studies at Rhodes University. He is on the editorial board of Ethnic and Racial Studies. His research investigates the political history of racial formation in South Africa and the intricacies of racial formation across space and time, ranging from white racism and racial formation in South Africa to anti-Black racism in Australia and New Zealand, from white missionaries and Christianity in nineteenth-century South Africa to race and liberalism, from gender and race in sports to the Black diaspora. He focuses on how these narratives intersect. He is the author of Uncommodified Blackness (2017).
Research interests
- Racism in South Africa, 17th century – 21st century
- Histories of racism
- Black Church Movements and Ethiopianism
- White Missionaries and Christianity in 19th century South Africa
- Black Diaspora
- Immigration and Refugees
- Blackness
Publications
Journal articles
Majavu, M. (2023). Reinterpreting the Historical Memory of the Black Peril in South Africa
THEORIA, 70 (177). https://www.berghahnjournals.com/view/journals/theoria/70/177/theoria.70.issue-177.xml
Majavu, M. (2023): Laundering racial capitalism in post-apartheid South Africa, Politikon,
DOI: 10.1080/02589346.2023.2257504: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/02589346.2023.2257504?src=
Maziyanhanga, Z. & Majavu, M. (2023). A critical review of the Zimbabwe special
temporary residence permits, 2010–2021. Politikon, DOI: 10.1080/02589346.2023.2260630: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/02589346.2023.2260630?scroll=top&needAccess=true
Majavu, M. (2022). Orania: A white homeland in post-apartheid South Africa. Sociology Compass, Vol. 16 (7): https://compass-onlinelibrary-wiley-com.ezproxy.auckland.ac.nz/toc/17519020/2022/16/7
Webster, K.; Asquith, A.; Cardow, A.; Rohan, M.; Majavu, M. (2019). Auckland New Zealand - Fair Game for Party Politics. Journal: Local Government Studies.
Majavu, M. (2018). The “African gangs” narrative: Associating Blackness with criminality and other anti-Black racist tropes in Australia. African and Black Diaspora: An International Journal. https://doi.org/10.1080/17528631.2018.1541958
Majavu, M. (2018). The whiteness regimes of multiculturalism: The African Male Experience in Australia. The Journal of Asian and African Studies, 53 (2): 187 - 200.
Book chapters
Majavu, M. (2023). Toppling the Racist Anglo-Saxon Politics of Cecil Rhodes. In B. Carlson & T. Farrelly (eds), Palgrave Handbook on Rethinking Colonial Commemorations. https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-031-28609-4_5
Majavu, M. (2022). A Historical Account of Caster Semenya's Decade-Long Protest of the IAAF and IOC's Sex Policies and Definition of Femininity. In M.J. Gennaro & B.M. McGowan (Eds.), Sport & Protest in the Black Atlantic. London & New York: Routlege.
Majavu, M. (2021). “Colour-Blind Ideologies: The Whiteness of Liberalism and Socialism.” In S. Hunter & C. van der Westhuizen (Eds.), Routledge Handbook of Critical Studies in Whiteness. London: Routledge.
Majavu, M. (2021). ‘Kantsaywhere’: Black African women inside the Australian racial crucible. In Black Feminist Sociology: Perspectives and Praxis!, edited by Z. Luna & W. Pirtle. Routledge.
Majavu, M. (2020). The White International: ‘The cause of the white man on the Pacific coast’. In Routledge Handbook on Africana Criminology, edited by Biko Agozino, Viviane Saleh-Hanna, Nontyatyambo Dastile and Emmanuel Onyeozili.
Books
Majavu, M. (2017). Uncommodified Blackness: The African Male Experience in Australia and New Zealand. Palgrave Macmillan UK. http://www.palgrave.com/gp/book/9783319513249
Pissarra, M.,Goniwe, T. & Majavu, M. (Eds.) (2011). Visual Century: South African Visual Art in Context, Book IV. Johannesburg: Wits University Press. https://witspress.co.za/catalogue/visual-century/
Edited and co-edited journal issues
Choudry, A., Wood, L., & Majavu, M. (Issue Editors). (2013). Anticolonial and postcolonial movements. Interface, Vol. 5 (1). http://www.interfacejournal.net/2013/05/interface-volume-5-issue-1-anticolonial-and-postcolonial-movements/
Policy briefs
Nakhid, C., Azanaw, L. Essuman, K., Ghebremichael, N., Kamau, M. M. K., Kayitesi, T., Majavu, M., et al. (2016). African youth: Experiences with the police and The New Zealand Justice System. African Communities Forum. Available: http://www.acofi.org.nz/
Non-schorlarly publications
Michael Albert & Mandisi Majavu. (2012). Occupy Theory: Understanding society and future. Boston: Z Publications.
Majavu, M. (2008). Africa: Life After Colonialism. In C. Spannos (ed.), Real Utopia: Participatory Society for the 21st Century, (112 – 129). AK Press: Oakland.
Majavu, M. (2006). Debt, Reforms, and Social Services in Africa. In P. S. Rothenberg (ed.), Beyond Borders: Thinking Critically About Global Issues, (507 – 509). Worth Publishers: New York.
Book reviews
Majavu, M. (2017). Playing while white: privilege and power on and off the Field. Sport in Society: Cultures, Commerce, Media, Politics. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/17430437.2017.1379189
Majavu, M. (2016). One game at a time: Why sports matter. Sport in Society. DOI: 10.1080/17430437.2016.1165422
Majavu, M. (2015). Becoming an African diaspora in Australia: language culture, identity. Ethnic and Racial Studies. DOI: 10.1080/01419870.2015.1011181
Majavu, M. (2014). Bad news for refugees. Journal of Refugee Studies, Vol 27 (2).
Majavu, M. (2014). Refuge New Zealand: A nation's response to refugees and asylum seekers. The Australasian Review of African Studies, Vol. 36 (2).
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