Ms Safiyya Goga

Safiyya Goga is a lecturer in Political Science in the Department. She worked as a social science researcher at the Human Sciences Research Council (HSRC) in Pretoria for three and a half years. The research projects she worked on exposed her to the challenges and pitfalls of producing 'research for policy', and the difficulties inherent in the realization of pro-poor policy-making and implementation. Safiyya has an ardent interest in the 'post-apartheid condition', particularly the challenges we face in shifting the national discourse in order to foster deeper, more critical understandings of how the past continues to shape the present. She is a PhD candidate at Stellenbosch University and her thesis explores the intersections of race/class/religiosity in the ongoing negotiation of post-apartheid subjectivities in Johannesburg. Safiyya currently teaches Political Theory at a first year and Honours level.

 

Research focus:

The 'post-apartheid condition', particularly the challenges we face in shifting the national discourse in order to foster deeper, more critical understandings of how the past continues to shape the present.

Selected publications:​

  • 2016: The socioeconomics of livestock keeping in two South African communities: A black man’s bank. Cape Town: HSRC Press. (co-authored)
  • 2016: The Longer Walk to Freedom: making sense of our attitudes towards race. The Star Newspaper. 35. (co-authored). 
  • 2016: The radical refusal of the colonial gaze: a reading of post-apartheid social reality through the recent  student protests Short Papers Series on Race and Identity, February/ March 2016, Auwal Socioeconomic Research Institute (ASRI).
  • 2015: Beyond binary thinking: making sense of modernity as a historical phenomenon, Psychology in Society, PINS 48. (Review)
  • 2015: What is the value of a doctoral degree? HSRC Review (April-May), 13(2), 22-23.
  • 2015: Conversation on policies: healthy livestock act as security against hunger. HSRC Review (October), 13(5), 9-11. (co-authored)
  • 2014: ‘We’re all finding places’: ILM-SA and middle class, Indian, Muslim women in post-apartheid South Africa in Agenda: Autobiographies, biographies and writing lives, Volume 28, Issue 1, No. 99, pp. 104-109.
  • 2013: The textures of culture in post-apartheid South Africa, HSRC Review (November), 11(5), 20-21.

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