Shows
Conflict & Development in Africa PodcastEP 90: White Farmer Genocide & Trump’s Amnesty with Prof Christi van der WesthuizenIn this week’s episode, we focus on the controversial allegation of White Farmers’ Genocide in South Africa and Trump’s granting of Refugee Status to ‘persecuted’ white farmers in South Africa. I am joined by Professor Christi van der Westhuizen, Professor of Sociology at the University of Western Cape, Cape Town. 2025-07-0742 min
Conflict and Development in Africa PodcastEpisode 90 – White Farmer Genocide’ and Trump’s AmnestyDr. Michael Nwankpa discusses about the White Farmer Genocide’ and Trump’s Amnesty with Prof Christi van der Westhuizen. Christi van der Westhuizen, Associate Professor and Senior Researcher, leads the research programme at CANRAD. As transdisciplinary scholar interested in identities, differences, ideologies, and discourses with a focus on (post)apartheid South Africa, she has published widely, both[...]
The post Episode 90 – White Farmer Genocide’ and Trump’s Amnesty first appeared on CACD.2025-07-0742 min
DRUCKFRISCH Book DiscussionThe D-Word: Perspectives on Democracy in Tumultuous TimesOur next episode of the Druckfrisch book discussion series features The D-Word: Perspectives on Democracy in Tumultuous Times, edited by Christi van der Westhuizen, Siphiwe Dube, and Zwelethu Jolobe. This collection brings together critical perspectives from the Global South on the evolving challenges faced by democracy. Covering fields from philosophy to socio-legal studies and activism, the book bridges national and conceptual divides, offering new insights on democracy’s future.
About the Book
The D-Word: Perspectives on Democracy in Tumultuous Times
Edited by Christi van der Westhuizen, Siphiwe Dube, Zwelethu Jolobe
2024, Mandela University Press
Th...2024-11-051h 35DRUCKFRISCH Book DiscussionRoutledge Handbook of Critical Studies in WhitenessThis edition of ReCentGlobe’s Druckfrisch Book Launch features the book “Routledge Handbook of Critical Studies in Whiteness” with the editors Shona Hunter and our guest professor Christi van der Westhuizen. They were joined by the contributors Sarah Heinz and Mark Schmitt in conversation with discussant Evangelia Kindinger.
The Routledge Handbook of Critical Studies in Whiteness offers a unique decolonial take on the field of Critical Whiteness Studies by rehistoricising and re-spatialising the study of bodies and identities in the world system of coloniality. Providing a transdisciplinary approach and addressing debates about knowledges, black and white subjectivities and newly defensi...2024-07-311h 05
Right RisingNew Book Spotlight - Routledge Handbook of Critical Studies in WhitenessGuests Shona Hunter, Christi van der Westhuizen, and Ashley Mattheis join Right Rising to discuss their new edited volume Routledge Handbook of Critical Studies in Whiteness, which seeks to understand whiteness as a manifestation of power. Along with host Augusta Dell'Omo, Shona, Christi, and Ashley explore everything from TradWives to international conspiracies to volksmoeders, to understand how whiteness operates in a global perspective. Shona, Christi, and Ashley conclude with a discussion on how these radical right movements - and their shared emphasis on whiteness - interlock throughout the United States, Britain, and South Africa.
Purchase your copy...2022-01-1948 min
Beckett TalksRethinking Critical Whiteness StudiesShona Hunter and Christi van der Westhuizen talk about their new book, the Routledge International Handbook in Critical Studies in Whiteness. It is a unique decolonial take on Critical Whiteness Studies, challenging its Western parochialism by bringing diverse scholarship from across the world into conversation about knowledges, subjectivities and the newly defensive whiteness of the Radical Right.2021-12-1447 min
Conexão África (#ConexãoÁfrica)Episódio 4 - Paola Prandini (Moçambique/África do Sul)Neste episódio, uma conversa com a jornalista e educomunicadora Paola Prandini, fundadora e diretora da AfroeducAÇÃO e da Associação Brasileira de Pesquisadores e Profissionais em Educomunicação.
Paola foi para a África do Sul no início de 2020 para fazer pesquisas para a tese de doutorado, a identificação do racismo estrutural e estruturante presente nas duas sociedades, a brasileira e a sul-africana, que tem raízes na estrutura da Educação Básica nos dois países. Ela aproveitou a proximidade com Moçambique e também passou uma temporada por lá, bem no iní...2021-01-121h 20
Fearless & UnfilteredEpisode 10 | Christi van der WesthuizenChristi van der Westhuizen: Gepubliseerde skrywer | Sosiaal-politieke kommentator | Akademikus Ek en Christi gesels oor wit opperheerskappy, akademiese aktivisme, die impak van ons geskiedenis, skaamte en soveel meer. Christi is ‘n absolute powerhouse. Sy lei op die oomblik die navorsingsprogram by die Sentrum vir die Bevordering van Nie-Rassigheid en Demokrasie by die Nelson Mandela Universiteit. Sy is 'n gereelde openbare spreker en rubriekskrywer. Haar publieke werk is te sien in plaaslike, internasionale radio-, TV-, gedrukte en aanlyn-media. Christi kry dit reg om met haar navorsing en skryfwerk ‘n wesenlike impak in die...2020-09-231h 32
Voices from SA25: Prof Christi van der Westhuizen-Academic and authorChristi van der Westhuizen is Professor of Sociology at the University of Pretoria. She is the author of two books. Her first book, "White Power", published in 2007, focuses on the rise and fall of the National Party. Her most recent offering is "Sitting Pretty-White Afrikaans Women in Postapartheid South Africa". She has written numerous academic publications and papers.
Christi grew up in Boksburg, outside Johannesburg. Her early career was as a journalist for the the anti-apartehid Afrikaans newspaper Vrye Weekblad, and then the more mainstream Beeld. After a time working in international relations she launched her academic career which has...2018-07-251h 05
2018: SkrywersfeesVROUE IN VERANDERINGMet: Christi van der Westhuizen,
Sylvia Vollenhoven, Annie Klopper
en Bettina Wyngaard.
Wat haar fassineer van ’n manlike
teenwoordigheid, sê Antjie Krog nadat sy
die Hertzogprys vir poësie ontvang het,
is ‘mans gaan nooit net weg nie, hulle vat
ook die mag saam weg en dan bly daar
nou net ’n klomp vrouens oor en skielik
daal die statuur van daardie beroep’ …
Op Internasionale Vrouedag debatteer
vier skrywers onder leiding van Hannelie
Booyens oor vroue en hulle identiteit in
Suid-Afrika vandag: Hoe het dit verander,
hoe kry dit in hulle werk beslag, is daar
so iets soos vroue wat mekaar bemagti...2018-05-301h 01