MICRO-BIO

• Grace Idahosa is a post-doctoral fellow the Centre for Social Change at the University of Johannesburg. My interest is driven by my societal standing as a black woman in a historically masculinized, post-colonial space. These have influenced my rese...More

  Grace Idahosa is a post-doctoral fellow the Centre for Social Change at the University of Johannesburg. My interest is driven by my societal standing as a black woman in a historically masculinized, post-colonial space. These have influenced my research on the effects of power relations on both individuals and states, and led to my interest in how we are affected by power/knowledge strategies, with a greater interest in questions of resistance, change and agency. My engagement with scholars like Foucault, Spivak and Puwar has also enabled my understanding of the position of ‘the other’. This fostered not only an interest in, but also a passion for, understanding the experiences of those othered by societal norms especially those associated with gender and its intersectionality with race, class and sexuality. My research and publication in the last five years has focused on higher education, gender and marginalities/social exclusion, institutional culture, xenophobia and transformation. This furthered my understanding of the importance of asking difficult social questions, and the need to uncover ways in which discriminatory practices are legitimised and normalised within institutions -- as they open up spaces and create the possibility for destabilising powerful discourses and creating the conditions for change. Less

EXPERIENCE

• Rhodes University

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  • Department of Political and International Studies
  • January 2018 to Present

EDUCATION

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