Prof Kopano Ratele

Professor

Biography

My studiebeurs wentel om twee nodusse: kritiese mans- en manlikheidstudies aan die een kant, en kritiese en kulturele Afrika-sielkundige studies aan die ander kant. Baie van my denke, skryfwerk, navorsing en openbare betrokkenheidsaktiwiteite vloei direk of indirek uit en in hierdie twee ondersoekvelde. My lys van publikasies is uitgebreid. Dit sluit boeke, boekhoofstukke en joernaalartikels in. 'n Waarde wat ek na aan die hart dra, is die verspreiding van akademiese werk via nie-akademiese kanale soos koerante, televisie, 'n dokumentêre film (klik op die beeld van An Ordinary Thing hieronder om die film te kyk), kort video's, sosiale media en radio. Ek was voorheen mede-aanbieder van 'n weeklikse radioprogram op Cape Talk genaamd 'Cape Dads' saam met Koketso Sachane en Mbuyiselo Botha. Onder andere het my studiebeurskundigheidswerk my toegelaat om te dien as lid van die Ministeriële Komitee oor Transformasie in Suid-Afrikaanse Universiteite, sameroeper van die Nasionale Navorsingstigting se Spesialiskomitee vir Sielkundegraderingspaneel, president van die Sielkundige Vereniging van Suid-Afrika, en voormalige voorsitter van Sonke Gender Justice. 

Navorsing

Navorsingsonderwerpe

  • seuns, mans en manlikheid
  • ras en rassisme
  • geweld
  • liefde
  • vaderskap
  • seksualiteit
  • kritiese en kulturele Afrika-sielkunde

Geselekteerde boeke

  1. Ratele, K. (2019). The world looks this from here: Thoughts on African psychology. Wits University Press
  2. Shefer, T., Hearn, J., Ratele, K. & Boonzaier, F. (2018). (eds) Engaging Youth in Activism, Research and Pedagogical Praxis: Transnational and Intersectional Perspectives on Gender, Sex, and Race. Routledge.
  3. Ratele, K. (2016). Liberating masculinities. HSRC Press
  4. Krog, A., Zantsi, N. & Ratele, K. (2009). There was this goat: investigating the Truth Commission testimony of Notrose Nobomvu Konile. University of Kwazulu-Natal Press.
  5. Ratele, K. & Duncan, N. (2003) (eds) Social psychology: identities & relationships. University of Cape Town Press

Geselekteerde boekhoofstukke

  1. Ratele, K., Stevens, G. & Malherbe, N. (in press). An orienting conversation on Africa(n)-centred decolonial community psychologies. In Sonn, C. & Stevens, G. (eds) Decoloniality and Epistemic Justice in Contemporary Community Psychology. Springer
  2. Ratele, K. (2020). African and Black Men and Masculinities. In, Gottzén, L., Mellström, U. & Shefer, T. (eds). Routledge International Handbook of Masculinity Studies. (125-134). London: Routledge
  3. Ratele, K. (2018). Is University Transformation about Assimilation into Slightly Tweaked Traditions. In, Pattman, R & Carolissen, R. (eds). Transforming Transformation in Research and Teaching at South African Universities (51-71). No Place of Publication: Sun Press.
  4. Ratele, K. (2018). Towards cultural (African) psychology: links, challenges and possibilities. In Jovanović, G., Allolio-Näcke, L. & Ratner, C. (eds). The Challenges of Cultural Psychology: Historical Legacies and Future Responsibilities (250-267). London: Routledge.
  5. Ratele, K. (2018). Concerning tradition in studies on men and masculinities in the ex-colonies. In Messerschmidt, J.W., Martin, P.Y., Messner, M. A. & Connell, R. (eds). Gender Reckonings: New Social Theory and Research. New York: NYU Press.
  6. Cornell, J., Kessi, S., & Ratele, K. (2018). Dynamics of privilege, identity and resistance at a historically white university: A photovoice study of exclusionary institutional culture. In Oke, N., Sonn, C. & Baker A. (Eds.) Places of Privilege Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Identities, Change and Resistance (173-193). Dordrecht, Netherlands: Sense Publishers.
  7. Cooper, S. & Ratele, K. (2018). The Black Consciousness Psychology of Steve Biko. In Fernando, S. & Moodley, R. (Eds.), Global Psychologies: Mental Health and the Global South (245-260). London: Palgrave Macmillan.
  8. Ratele K (2013) Does He Speak Xhosa? in Megan Jones and Jacob Dlamini (eds) Categories of Persons: Rethinking Ourselves and Others, (119-134). Cape Town: Picador Africa.
  9. Ratele K & Laubscher L (2013). Archiving White Lives, Historicising Whiteness, in Garth Stevens, Norman Duncan & Derek Hook (eds), Race, Memory and the Apartheid Archive: Towards a Transformative Psychosocial Praxis (109-127) London: Palgrave.
  10. Ratele K (2011) Male sexualities and masculinities. In Tamale, S (ed). African sexualities: A reader (399-419). Nairobi: Pambazuka Press.

Geselekteerde Tydskrifartikels

  1. Malherbe, N. & Ratele, K. What and for whom is a decolonial African psychology. Theory & Psychology. Online. https://doi.org/10.1177/09593543211027231
  2. Khan, A. R., Ratele, K., & Helman, R. (2020). Suicidal Behaviour in South Africa and Bangladesh: A Review of Empirical Work. African Safety Promotion: A Journal of Injury and Violence Prevention, 18(1), 1-30.
  3. Ratele, K., Malherbe, N., Suffla, S., Cornell, J., & Taliep, N. (2021).
  4. Three Pathways for Enlarging Critical African Psychology. South African Journal of Psychology. 2021;51(3):430-440. doi:10.1177/0081246320963201
  5. Ratele, K., & Malherbe, N. (2020). What antiracist psychology does and does not (do). South African Journal of Psychology, 50(3), 296-300. doi:10.1177/0081246320947361
  6. Ratele, K. (2021). An invitation to decoloniality in work on (African) men and masculinities. Gender, Place & Culture, 28:6, 769-785, DOI: 10.1080/0966369X.2020.1781794
  7. Ratele, K., Malherbe, N. Cornell, J., Day, S., Helman, R., Makama, R., Titi, N., Suffla, S., & Dlamini, S. (2020). Elaborations on (a) decolonising Africa(n)-centred feminist psychology. Psychology in Society, 59, 1-19.
  8. Ratele, K., Verma, R., Cruz, S. & Khan, A.R. (2019). Engaging men to support women in science, medicine, and global health. The Lancet, 393, 609-610.
  9. Khan, A.R., Ratele, K., Arendse, N. & Islam M.Z. & Dery, I. (2020). Suicide and attempted suicide in Jhenaidah district, Bangladesh, 2010-2018. CRISIS: The Journal of Crisis Intervention and Suicide Prevention, 41(4), 304-312
  10. Ratele, K. (2017). Frequently asked questions about African psychology. South African Journal of Psychology, 47(3), 273-279. doi/full/10.1177/0081246317703249
  11. Ratele, K. (2017). Four (African) psychologies. Theory & Psychology, 27(3), 313-327. DOI: 10.1177/0959354316684215
  12. Helman, R. & Ratele, K. (2016). Everyday (in)equality at home: complex constructions of gender in South African families. Global Health Action, 9: 31122 – http://dx.doi.org/10.3402/gha.v9.31122.
  13. Ratele, K. (2014). Currents against gender transformation of South African men: relocating marginality to the centre of research and theory of masculinities, NORMA: International Journal for Masculinity Studies, 9(1), 30-44.
  14. Clowes, L., Ratele, K., & Shefer T (2013). Who needs a father? South African men reflect on being fathered. Journal of Gender Studies 22(3), 255-267 http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/09589236.2012.708823
  15. Ratele K (2013). Mandela is not enough: African yearnings for psychological and cultural wholeness. Journal of Black Psychology (39)3, 243-247.
  16. Ratele K (2013). Masculinity without Tradition. Politikon: South African Journal of Political Studies, 40(1), 133-156. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/02589346.2013.765680