Gendering Social Science: ‘Ukubuyiswa’ of African Maternal Legacies of Knowledge in South Africa

Gendering Social Science: ‘Ukubuyiswa’ of African Maternal Legacies of Knowledge for balanced social science studies in South Africa

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Prof. Babalwa Magoqwana is the director for the Centre for Women and Gender Studies and an Associate Professor in Sociology and Anthropology Department in Nelson Mandela University, South Africa. She holds a PhD in Sociology from Rhodes University. She is a former president of the South African Sociological Association (SASA from 2017-2019). She is an Erasmus Mundus Scholar. A fellow for the University of Michigan African Presidential Scholars Programme. A fellow with the American Learned Societies Council’s African Humanities Programme; the 2023 DHET Future Professors Fellowship Programme and the UNISA – NRF-DST SARChI Chair in Social Policy. She is the recipient of the National Research Foundation/ First Rand Foundation Sabbatical Grant for her project on “Building a Woman-Centred Vernacular Sociology”. Her research on Maternal Legacies of Knowledge, is supported by the National Institute for the Humanities and Social Sciences. Areas of Research: Service Work, Labour Sociology, Sociology of Gender; Sociology of Knowledge; Indigenous Knowledge Systems.