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Shose Kessi
Researcher at University of Cape Town
Publications - 33
Citations - 418
Shose Kessi is an academic researcher from University of Cape Town. The author has contributed to research in topics: Photovoice & Social change. The author has an hindex of 9, co-authored 32 publications receiving 311 citations.
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Photovoice as a practice of re-presentation and social solidarity: Experiences from a youth empowerment project in Dar es Salaam and Soweto
TL;DR: In this paper, the role of social solidarity in resisting stigmatizing representations of development and as the basis upon which to mobilize social changes in the community is observed. But, the authors do not consider the impact of social re-presentation on social change.
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Social Representations and the Politics of Participation
TL;DR: The role of social representations in understanding political participation and social change has been explored in this article, where social representations are systems of commonsense knowledge and social practice; they provide the lens through which to view and create social and political realities, mediate people's relations with these sociopolitical worlds and defend cultural and political identities.
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Centre/ing decolonial feminist psychology in Africa:
Shose Kessi,Floretta Boonzaier +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors argue that "psychology as a discipline has historically served the interests of dominant groups in society." By contrast, contemporary trends in psychological work have emerged as a direct result of the impact of the dominant groups on psychological research.
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Black students’ experiences of transformation at a previously “white only” South African university: a photovoice study
Josephine Cornell,Shose Kessi +1 more
TL;DR: This article explored black students' experiences of transformation at the University of Cape Town (UCT), a previously “white only” university, based on the results of a photovoice project.
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Decolonizing African Studies
TL;DR: In this article, the authors discuss some of the epicolonial dynamics that characterize much of higher education and knowledge production in, of, and of Africa, and discuss decolonizing African studies.