Decolonial Feminist Community Psychology

Floretta Boonzaier is an Associate Professor in the Department of Psychology at the University of Cape Town. Her research interests include feminist, critical, and postcolonial psychologies, subjectivity in relation to race, gender, and sexuality, and narrative, discursive, and participatory methods in qualitative psychology.

Taryn van Niekerk is a postdoctoral fellow in the Department of Psychology at the University of Cape Town. Her primary areas of interest include feminist post-structuralist theories of gender and intersectionality, social psychological and post-colonial theories of identity and subjectivity, men’s accounts of their own violence, and the social construction of violence against women in the South African media. Her postdoctoral research forms part of a larger participatory action project on the gendered and sexual lives of South African youth and explores how young people represent gender violence and relationships, through the method of Photovoice.