Dr Amy Duvenage
Summary
I am a lecturer in Criminology and Psychology in the School of Criminology and Criminal Justice and a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (FHEA).
My research focuses on gender, sexuality, and justice in the Global South. A key focus is epistemic justice and the role of local, or indigenous, knowledge in advancing the rights, interests, and wellbeing of women and the LGBTQIA+ community. Across my work, I consistently draw on and critique the concept of ubuntu, a Southern African worldview, using it as a lens to explore social cohesion, nation-building, gender dynamics and migrant exclusion in South Africa, and critical pedagogy, more broadly. I am the author of Roads to Decolonisation: An Introduction to Thought from the Global South (Routledge, 2024), a text that centres Southern theoretical and applied perspectives.
I teach across a range of undergraduate modules and have postgraduate supervision responsibilities.
Research outputs
2026
Social cohesion in South Africa through the lens of queer justice, incorporating Ubuntu
Duvenage, A.
31 Mar 2026,
Research output: Chapter (peer-reviewed)
2025
Realising pedagogical love through Ubuntu: cultivating inclusion and undoing coloniality for pluriversity
Duvenage, A.
1 May 2025,
Research output: Chapter (peer-reviewed)
What is the criminological value of fiction? Examining postcolonial speculative storytelling as a site for theory construction, analogy and pedagogy
Duvenage, A.
9 Jan 2025, In: Journal of Criminal Justice Education, 17p.
Research output: Article
2024
Xenophobia and the migrant labour force
Duvenage, A.
23 Oct 2024,
Research output: Chapter (peer-reviewed)
Roads to Decolonisation: An introduction to Thought from the Global South
Duvenage, A.
16 Apr 2024,
Research output: Book
2022
Patriarchal forms of national community in post-apartheid literature: Re-examining ubuntu and gender in Sindiwe Magona’s Mother to Mother (1998) and Zakes Mda’s The Heart of Redness (2000).
Duvenage, A.
1 Sep 2022, In: The Journal of Commonwealth Literature
Research output: Article
2021
Examining the tensions between queer desire, non-normative gendered identities, and pseudo-traditional cultural practices in Masande Ntshanga’s The Reactive (2016) and Mohale Mashigo’s The Yearning (2017)
Duvenage, A.
10 Jun 2021, In: Safundi. 22, 2, p. 147-161
Research output: Article