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Learning from Narratives: Understanding the Impact of Childhood Abuse on Interpersonal Functioning Later in Life
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Journal of Psychology in Africa • Authors: Gwen Vogel --- , USA Sharon Gschaider-Kassahun --- , USAThis study used a survey and narrative approach to understand the link between childhood abuse experiences and interpersonal functioning later in life. Participants for the children's survey were 88 children (males = 43; females = 45; age range 5 to... -
Using a Personal Portfolio for Identity Development with an Adolescent
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Journal of Psychology in Africa • Authors: Suzanne Bester --- University of Pretoria, South Africa Mugsy Quinn --- University of Pretoria, South AfricaThis article reports on the findings of an instrumental case study that was exploratory and descriptive in nature. An open and flexible investigation was conducted with the purpose of gaining insight into the potential value of using a personal portfolio... -
Exploring Young Black Persons' Narratives About the Apartheid Past
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Journal of Psychology in Africa • Authors: Cheryl Petersen --- North-West University (Potchefstroom Campus), South Africa Chris Venter --- North-West University (Potchefstroom Campus), South Africa Karel Botha --- North-West University (Potchefstroom Campus), South AfricaThis study examined intergeneration narratives about the apartheid past through the retelling of 14 young black South Africans aged 16 to 21 (males =6, females =8). A qualitative categorical-content data analysis underpinned by social constructionism, explored these secondary narrative segments... -
Experiences and conceptualizations of sexual debut from the narratives of South African men and women in the context of HIV/AIDS
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of AIDS Research • Authors: Erin Stern --- University of Cape Town, Women's Health Research Unit, South Africa Diane Cooper --- University of Cape Town, Women's Health Research Unit, South AfricaGiven the pivotal role of first sex in the development of sexual and reproductive health (SRH) practices, there is a need for more contextualised and nuanced understandings of young people's early sexual debut experiences. This study used sexual history narratives... -
“Dwelling-in-Travel”: Of Ships, Trains and Planes in M.G. Vassanji's Fiction
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Eastern African Literary and Cultural Studies • Authors: Tina Steiner --- English Department, South AfricaM.G. Vassanji's prominent thematic concerns of movement, diaspora, memory, and the formation of migrant subjectivities can be traced and apprehended by paying close attention to the intersecting paths across the Indian Ocean, across railroad tracks into various East African territories... -
The Intersection of the Self and History in Kenyan Autobiographies
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Eastern African Literary and Cultural Studies • Authors: Jennifer Muchiri --- Department of Literature, KenyaLife writing has increasingly become a popular genre which calls for sustained interrogation and analysis of the narratives produced. The autobiography is not only the story of the narrating subject but can be read as the history of the society... -
Silence, blame and AIDS conspiracy theories among the Xhosa people in two townships in Cape Town
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of AIDS Research • Authors: Jonas Samuel Sivelä --- African Studies, Department of World Cultures, FinlandConspiratorial expressions about the origins of HIV/AIDS have been recognised as an outcome of the AIDS epidemic in South Africa. This article examines the reasons behind AIDS conspiracy theories, which include a reoccurring repertory of themes, motifs and characters. In... -
Glaring invisibility: dressing the body of the female cleaner
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Anthropology Southern Africa • Authors: Maheshvari Naidu --- School of Anthropology, Gender and Historical Studies, University of KwaZulu Natal,The paper explores how the uniform of a group of female cleaners appears to be more than an abstract object framed by the practical exegetics of work. The uniform is seen as acting as a material exercise of discretionary and... -
Performing illness and health: the humanistic value of cancer narratives
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Anthropology Southern Africa • Authors: Maheshvari Naidu --- School of Social Sciences (Anthropology), University of KwaZulu-Natal, South AfricaCancer is a potent example of a disease that grips and plays out on the body in ways that are both visceral and visual. This paper explores issues of disease and disorder, functioning and malfunctioning in bodies marked by cancer... -
Women’s spiritually mediated stories about recovery from Alcohol Use Disorder: A brief report
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Journal of Psychology in Africa • Authors: Liezille Jacobs --- Psychology Department, South AfricaThis study explored women’s lived recovery experiences from alcohol use disorder (AUD) facilitated by Alcoholics Anonymous (AA). The women (n = 10; age range 30–62 years; married = 6) completed life story interviews regarding their recovery from AUD with AA participation. Discourse analysis of... -
Care, contagion and the good mother: narratives of motherhood, tuberculosis and healing
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Anthropology Southern Africa • Authors: Ziyanda Majombozi --- School of African and Gender Studies, Anthropology and Linguistics, South AfricaSouth Africa is reported as one of the countries with a high burden of tuberculosis (TB). In response to the epidemic, the country’s national Department of Health attempted to improve access to health care and TB treatment with a variety... -
Negotiating Cultural Transformation in the Performance Practice of Narratives in Kenya
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Eastern African Literary and Cultural Studies • Authors: Nancy Abigael Masasabi --- , KenyaCulture is never static but continues to change. The narrative is one of the prosaic performances in cultures with an oral tradition. Such prosaic performances are culture bearers and signifiers. Change in societal setup has affected the contexts within which... -
Complex information and accounting standards: Evidence from UK narrative reporting
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: South African Journal of Accounting Research • Authors: Ekaete Efretuei --- , United Kingdom Abel Usoro --- , Nigeria Christina Koutra --- , United Arab EmiratesThe application of International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS) has been introduced in many countries to enhance efficiencies in financial markets and improve communication in financial reporting. However, extant studies have suggested that the introduction of IFRS has increased narrative complexity,... -
People living with HIV and AIDS in everyday conditions of township life in South Africa: between structural constraint and individual tactics
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: SAHARA-J: Journal of Social Aspects of HIV/AIDS • Authors: Frédéric Le Marcis --- Department of Social Anthropology, University of Victor Segalen, Rehana Ebrahim-Vally --- University of the Witwatersrand,The HIV/AIDS pandemic in South Africa has negatively transformed the lives of many in townships and rural areas. People living with AIDS (PWAs) are the socially weakened, whose means of survival include migrating, enduring gender violence, and they are thus... -
The social construction of identity in HIV/AIDS home-based care volunteers in rural KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: SAHARA-J: Journal of Social Aspects of HIV/AIDS • Authors: Thirusha Naidu [d128e18] Yvonne Sliep Wenche DageidHome-based care volunteer (HBCV) identity and how it is shaped was the main focus of the study. Fifteen HBCVs were interviewed about their work and personal life stories and then interviewed reflectively using a narrative interviewing style. Specific attention was... -
Sexual and reproductive health perceptions and practices as revealed in the sexual history narratives of South African men living in a time of HIV/AIDS
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: SAHARA-J: Journal of Social Aspects of HIV/AIDS • Authors: Erin Stern --- , , South Africa Asta Rau --- , , South Africa Diane Cooper --- , , South AfricaThe frequent positioning of men's sexual risk-taking as driving the HIV/AIDS epidemic in South Africa has triggered interest in men's sexual and reproductive health (SRH) perceptions, attitudes, and practices. Much research, however, presents men as a homogenous group, and focuses... -
Problematizing official narratives of HIV and AIDS education in Scotland and Zimbabwe
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: SAHARA-J: Journal of Social Aspects of HIV/AIDS • Authors: Tarsisio Nyatsanza --- , , , South Africa Lesley Wood --- , , South AfricaWhen human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) and acquired immune deficiency syndrome (AIDS) are framed within an intersectional approach, they have the potential to transform understandings of social justice within the curriculum and education policy and practice in general. Yet, this transformative... -
Children’s voices through teachers’ stories
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Indo-Pacific Journal of Phenomenology • Authors: Elisabetta Musi --- Catholic University of the Sacred Heart, Italy Margareth Eilifsen --- Western Norway University of Applied Sciences, NorwayWe understand our lives through narratives, and the form of these narratives is appropriate for understanding the actions of others, writes MacIntyre (1981). Meanwhile, narratives and our understanding of them also inform our understanding of our own actions. In this... -
Challenging the bottom-of-the-pyramid narrative in Africa: A cross-cultural management perspective on the impact of mobile money
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Africa Journal of Management • Authors: Terence Jackson --- Middlesex University, UK Ellis L.C. Osabutey --- Northumbria University, UKThe “bottom-of-the-pyramid” (BoP) narrative underpins the introduction of fintech initiatives such as mobile money into Africa’s largely informal economies by multinational enterprises (MNEs) often endorsed by the international development community. This is claimed to enhance financial inclusion and enterprise development... -
Changing midlife tropes: A transcendence into epiphany
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Indo-Pacific Journal of Phenomenology • Authors: Louisa Niehaus --- University of South Africa, South Africa Maria Papaikonomou --- University of South Africa, South AfricaMidlife is often stereotyped as a time of turbulence, angst and chaos, marked by inappropriate behaviours, broken marriages, infidelity and destructive changes. However, this article aims to challenge these stereotypes and present a different perspective. It argues that midlife is...
