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Kopano Ratele

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PhD Psychology University of Cape Town
Masters Psychology University of Cape Town
Bachelors Psychology University of Cape Town

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According to Wikipedia, Kopano Ratele is a decolonial psychologist and men and masculinities studies scholar. He is known for his work on Africa-centring psychology, masculinity, fatherhood, culture, sexuality, and violence. He is former co-director of the South African Medical Research Council-University of South Africa 's Violence, Injury & Peace Research Unit. In 2009-2010 he was president of the Psychological Society of South Africa. He chaired the board of Sonke Gender Justice, a South African nongovernmental organisation working across Africa to strengthen government, civil society and citizen capacity to promote gender equality, prevent domestic and sexual violence, and reduce the spread and impact of HIV and AIDS.

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Kopano Ratele's Published Works

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Violence and injuries in South Africa: prioritising an agenda for prevention (2009) (712)
From Boys to Men: Social constructions of masculinity in contemporary society (2022) (190)
RISK AND PROTECTIVE (2010) (180)
Analysing Males in Africa: Certain Useful Elements in Considering Ruling Masculinities (2008) (136)
Talking South African Fathers: A Critical Examination of Men's Constructions and Experiences of Fatherhood and Fatherlessness (2012) (129)
Ruling Masculinity and Sexuality (2006) (75)
Currents against gender transformation of South African men: relocating marginality to the centre of research and theory of masculinities (2014) (72)
Working through resistance in engaging boys and men towards gender equality and progressive masculinities (2015) (66)
Masculinities without Tradition (2013) (62)
Who needs a father? South African men reflect on being fathered (2013) (60)
Masculinity and male mortality in South Africa (2008) (59)
Subordinate Black South African Men without Fear (2013) (56)
Social psychology : identities and relationships (2004) (56)
The Social Construction of Sexually Transmitted Infections (STIs) in South African Communities (2002) (53)
Hegemonic African Masculinities and Men’s Heterosexual Lives: Some Uses for Homophobia (2014) (44)
The end of the black man (1998) (38)
‘We Do Not Cook, We Only Assist Them’: Constructions of Hegemonic Masculinity Through Gendered Activity (2010) (37)
Sexuality as Constitutive of Whiteness in South Africa (2009) (35)
Four (African) psychologies (2017) (34)
Watch your man: Young black males at risk of homicidal violence (2010) (31)
RETHINKING ‘TRADITIONAL MASCULINITY’ AS CONSTRUCTED, MULTIPLE, AND ≠ HEGEMONIC MASCULINITY (2015) (28)
Men and violence (2013) (27)
Racist sexualisation and sexualised racism in narratives on apartheid (2011) (27)
Some basic questions about (a) decolonizing Africa(n)-centred psychology considered (2018) (27)
Everyday (in)equality at home: complex constructions of gender in South African families (2016) (26)
Men, Suicide, and Covid-19: Critical Masculinity Analyses and Interventions (2020) (25)
Psychological research and South Africa’s violence prevention responses (2014) (24)
The World Looks Like This From Here (2019) (22)
The South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC): Ways of Knowing Mrs. Konile (2008) (21)
Young Black Men's Risk to Firearm Homicide in Night Time Johannesburg, South Africa: a Retrospective Analysis based on the National Injury Mortality Surveillance System (2012) (18)
Frequently asked questions about African psychology (2017) (17)
Of what value is feminism to black men? (2013) (17)
Everyday (in)equality at home: complex constructions of gender in South African families. (2016) (17)
Gender Equality in the Abstract and Practice (2014) (16)
Re tla dirang ka selo se ba re go ke ghetto fabulous? Academics on the streets (2003) (15)
Risk and protective factors to male interpersonal violence: views of some male university students (2010) (15)
Make Indigenes Unconscious of Whiteness: A Response to Green, Sonn, and Matsebula (2007) (15)
Towards the Development of a Responsive, Social Science-informed, Critical Public Health Framework on Male Interpersonal Violence (2010) (15)
The invisibility of men in South African violence prevention policy: national prioritization, male vulnerability, and framing prevention (2015) (15)
Navigating Past “the White Man’s Agenda” in South Africa: Organizing Men for Gendered Transformation of Society (2011) (15)
Race, gender and sexuality in student experiences of violence and resistances on a university campus (2016) (14)
Masculinity as a key risk and protective factor to male interpersonal violence : an exploratory and critical review : research and theory (2011) (14)
Native chief and white headman: A critical African gender analysis of culture (2007) (13)
We black men (2003) (13)
Suicide and Attempted Suicide in Jhenaidah District, Bangladesh, 2010-2018. (2020) (13)
Proper sex, bodies, culture and objectification (2005) (13)
MAKING WHITE LIVES: NEGLECTED MEANINGS OF WHITENESS FROM APARTHEID SOUTH AFRICA (2010) (12)
Gendered globalization and violence (2017) (12)
Why the Wretched Kill in Democratic South Africa (2010) (11)
Engaging Youth in Activism, Research, and Pedagogical Praxis (2018) (10)
A Decolonial Africa(n)-Centered Psychology of Antiracism (2021) (9)
Masculinity and Suicide in Bangladesh (2020) (9)
Research shouldn’t be a dirty thought, but race is a problematic construct (2019) (8)
African (situated) psychologies of boys, men and masculinities (2017) (8)
Men, masculinities and young people: north–south dialogues (2015) (7)
North–South dialogues: reflecting on working transnationally with young men, masculinities and gender justice (2015) (7)
The singularity of the post-apartheid black condition (2015) (7)
The Black Consciousness Psychology of Steve Biko (2018) (7)
Desire, Fear and Entitlement: Sexualising Race and Racialising Sexuality in (Re)membering Apartheid (2013) (6)
Psychology in society (PINS) and traditions: Back towards a critical African psychology (2014) (6)
Men’s Reflections on Postsuicide Attempt Episode in Bangladesh (2020) (6)
Contesting ‘Traditional’ Masculinity and Men's Sexuality in Kwadukuza, South Africa (2017) (6)
Where my dad was from he was quite a respected man (2012) (5)
Ndabethwa lilitye: Assumption, translation and culture in the testimony of one person before the South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission (2007) (5)
The Interior Life of Mtutu: Psychological Fact or Fiction? (2005) (5)
Suicide prevention in Bangladesh: The current state and the way forward (2020) (5)
The evaluation of immediate behavioural outcomes of the syndromic case management approach for the treatment of patients with sexually transmitted infections at PHC centres in South Africa: Knowledge, attitudes, beliefs and sexual behaviour (2004) (5)
Evaluation of the Quality of Care for Sexually Transmitted Infections in Primary Health Care Centres in South Africa (2002) (4)
“It’s Cultivated, Grown, Packaged and Sold with a Price Tag”: Young Black Men’s Consumption of Media Images of Love, Happiness and Constructions of Masculinity (2016) (4)
Versions of Masculinity Hypothesis On The Origin Of Hegemonic Masculinity Male Sexuality In The Context of Socio-Economic Change In Rural And Urban East Africa (2005) (4)
Looks: Subjectivity as commodity (2011) (4)
What and for whom is a decolonising African psychology? (2021) (4)
Engaging men to support women in science, medicine, and global health (2019) (4)
Intimate relationships and Suicidal Behaviour of Men in Bangladesh (2021) (4)
How we learned to stop worrying and work with government (2014) (4)
Risk and protective factors to male interpersonal violence : views of some male university students : research and theory (2010) (4)
Engaging Youth in Activist Research and Pedagogical Praxis : Transnational Perspectives on Gender, Sex, and Race (2018) (4)
Engaging Youth in Activist Research and Pedagogical Praxis : Transnational Perspectives on Gender, Sex, and Race (2018) (4)
Notes on the anxieties of belonging (2001) (4)
Location, location, location: reckoning with margins and centres of masculinities research and theory in an inter/trans-national South Africa–Finland project on youth (2015) (3)
Three Pathways for Enlarging Critical African Psychology (2020) (3)
Engaging Young Male University Students (2018) (3)
What antiracist psychology does and does not (do) (2020) (3)
An invitation to decoloniality in work on (African) men and masculinities (2020) (3)
Concerning Tradition in Studies on Men and Masculinities in Ex-Colonies (2018) (3)
Re)Animating Sociology of Suicide in Bangladesh (2020) (3)
Editorial: Six theses on African Psychology for the world (2017) (3)
The destruction of the African mind, shattered consciousness, and fractured identity: black psychology and the restoration of the African psyche (2014) (2)
Non-experimental research designs: (2019) (2)
Assessing the Policy Implementation of the Bangladeshi Domestic Violence Act: Any Lessons for Protecting South African Women in their Homes? (2020) (2)
“Because They Are Me”: Dress and the Making of Gender (2017) (2)
Mobilising compassionate critical citizenship and psychologies in the service of humanity (2014) (2)
African and black men and masculinities 1 (2019) (2)
The second week of the first round of hearings of the South African Truth and (2011) (2)
The invisibility of men in South African violence prevention policy: national prioritization, male vulnerability, and framing prevention (2015) (2)
Dynamics of Privilege, Identity and Resistance at a Historically White University (2018) (1)
What is there to learn about violence and masculinity from a genderqueer man? (2018) (1)
The Men and the Boys, Twenty Years On (2020) (1)
Book Review: Postmodern Psychologies, Societal Practice, and Political Life (2006) (1)
Fanon’s Decolonial Transcendence of Psychoanalysis (2021) (1)
Race trouble : race identity and inequality in post-apartheid South Africa : how we grew to understand the world, Kevin Durrheim, Xoliswa Mtose, Lindsay Brown : book review (2011) (1)
Decolonising Psychology: Moving from developing an inclusive social psychology to centring epistemic justice (2021) (1)
MEN AND COVID-19: EXPLICATING THE NEED FOR MASCULINITY ANALYSIS (2021) (1)
Biko’s Black Conscious Thought Is Useful for Extirpating the Fear of Whites Deposited in Black Masculinity (2021) (1)
Risk factors for homicide by firearm discharge in night time Johannesburg (2010) (1)
Desire, Fear and Entitlement (2013) (1)
Psychology Serving Humanity: Proceedings of the 30th International Congress of Psychology : Volume 1: Majority World Psychology (2014) (1)
Archiving White Lives, Historicising Whiteness (2013) (1)
Introduction: Engaging Youth in Activism, Research and Pedagogical Praxis (2018) (1)
Examining the Dynamics of Belonging and Alienation in Higher Education Through Photovoice (2022) (1)
In Discourse-Mandela Is Not Enough (2013) (1)
Satyagraha and Resilience: From Violence Prevention to Liberation* (2020) (1)
Fatherhood Among Marginalised Work-Seeking Men in South Africa (2021) (1)
Men, masculinities, peace, and violence (2021) (1)
The Continual Relevance of The Men and the Boys, Twenty Years On: Revisiting Raewyn Connell’s Pivotal Text (2021) (1)
Men, Suicide, and Covid-19: Critical Masculinity Analyses and Interventions (2020) (0)
We have always been indigenous: thoughts about the past and future of psychology (2014) (0)
Happiness and Constructions of Young Masculinity (2018) (0)
International Seminar on Health of Afro-Descendent Populations, Salvador, Brazil (2008) (0)
Why the Wretched Kill in Democratic South Africa: Reflections on Rejuvenation and Reconstruction* (2020) (0)
Engaging youth in activist research and pedagogical praxis: transnational and intersectional perspectives on gender, sex, and race (2018) (0)
Continued hopes and frustrations (2019) (0)
Introduction: Engaging Youth in Activist Research and Pedagogical Praxis: Transnational, Intersectional and Everyday (2018) (0)
Safety for ensouled bodies : extending approaches to injury prevention : editorial (2007) (0)
Ndabethwa lilitye: Assumption, (2007) (0)
Social Meanings of Attempted Suicide of Men in Bangladesh (2022) (0)
Black Masculinities in South Africa and Violence (2013) (0)
An Orienting Conversation on Africa(n)-Centred Decolonial Community Psychologies (2021) (0)
Towards the Development of a Responsive, Social Science-informed, Critical Public Health Framework on Male Interpersonal Violence* (2020) (0)
Introduction to the Special Issue: In Dialogue with Fanonian and Southern Thought (2021) (0)
Book Review: Race trouble: race identity and inequality in post-apartheid South Africa: how we grew to understand the world (2011) (0)
Waste, good stories and bad feelings : identity (2004) (0)
Racist sexualisation and sexualised (2011) (0)
Defining by affirmation (2019) (0)
Toward cultural (African) psychology (2018) (0)
Fire-arm Related Homicides in Gauteng (2013) (0)
Africa-Europe Group for Interdisciplinary Studies European Conference on African studies (2008) (0)

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