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FACULTY OF HUMANITIES
African Gender Institute
Head of Department: Associate Professor
Jane Bennett
Departmental Profile
The AGI’s mission is to contribute to the attainment of gender
justice in Africa by participating in the transformation of
inequitable institutions and social practices. The AGI presents
academic and research programmes that engage policy-
makers, researchers, and scholars in a dialogue that directs
the AGI’s research and intervention strategies. The academic
programme focuses on gender studies as a broad area of
scholarship and research in and beyond the academy, and
has a particular interest in strengthening gender/women’s
studies on the African continent. The AGI builds research
networks and delivers workshops that link theory-building,
research methodologies and the support of scholarship with a
serious interest in gender analysis and feminist theories. The
AGI’s work in 2011 has included a strong focus on the work of
women peace activists in Eastern and Southern Africa, and on
the development of leadership among SADC-based university
students around sexual and reproductive health and rights.
We completed a programme on case-law in legal feminism,
and published
Feminist Africa 15: Legal Voice
. In the ICT
space, we completely redid our website, to profile a much
richer sense of our work, networks, and resources.
The AGI has also responded to diverse requests for input
to policy, training and development, within South Africa,
internationally and on the continent. All AGI teaching and
research programmes include highly developed uses of
information technology, and have gained international
acclaim for innovative applications of ICT as a tool for
transformation and knowledge building.
Departmental Statistics
Permanent and long-term contract staff
Head of Department
1
Lecturers
3
Senior Office Manager
1
Programme Convenors
3
Programme Administrator
1
Academic Programme Administrator
1
Programme Assistant
1
Total
11
Honorary staff
Research Associates
1
Total
1
Students
Doctoral
4
Master’s
4
Honours
21
Undergraduate
600
Total
629
Research Fields and Staff
Associate Professor Jane Bennett
Head of Department; gender-based violence and conflict;
African feminist epistemology; representation; sexuality.
Dr Helen Scanlon
Gender and history, transitional justice and peace building,
women’s human rights
Ms Yaliwe Clarke
Gender conflict and peace-building; gender analysis and
development; African feminisms.
Dr Adelene Africa
Women perpetrators of violence, gendered representations
of violence, feminist methodologies.
Ms Jennifer Radloff
Programme Officer:
Information and Communication Technology (ICT)
for social change, feminist practices and politics of
technology, digital storytelling for transformation, secure
online communications, internet rights as human rights.
Ms Selina Mudahvanhu
Programme Officer: Media, Gender and Development;
Media representations and audience analysis.
Ms Susan Holland-Muter
Programme Officer: Politics of sexuality and gender, youth,
LGBT issues, feminism and movement building.
Associate Professor Helen Bradford
Research Associate; feminist historiography in southern
Africa; specialism in c19 militarism; millenarianism.
Contact Details
Postal address: African Gender Institute, University of
Cape Town, Private Bag X3, Rondebosch, 7701
Tel: +27 21 650 2970
Fax: +27 21 650 4840
E-mail: agi-general@.uct.ac.za
Web: http://web.uct.ac.za/org/agi/
http://www.feminstafrica.org
http://www.gwsafrica.org
UCT General enquiries: +27 21 650 9111
UCT web: http://www.uct.ac.za