Dr Nick Malherbe

Qualifications

PhD

Fields of academic interests

• Community psychology
• Violence
• Discourse
• Visual methods

Books

• Malherbe, N. (2022). For an anti-capitalist psychology of community. Springer.
• Ratele, K., & Malherbe, N. (2022). Liberatory Africa(n)-centred community psychology of psychosocial change. In S. Kessi, S. Suffla, & M. Seedat (Eds.), Decolonial enactments in community psychology (pp. 13-27). Springer.
• Malherbe, N., Suffla, S., & Seedat, M. (2022). Epistemicide and epistemic freedom: Reflections for a decolonising community psychology.  In C. Kagan, J. Akhurst, J. Alfaro, R. Lawthom, M. Richards, & A. Zambrano (Eds.), The Routledge international handbook of community psychology: Facing global crises with hope (pp. 17-31). Routledge. 
• Malherbe, N. Suffla, S., & Seedat, M. (2022). Reflexively interrogating (de)colonial praxes in critical community psychologies. In C. Walker, S. Zlotowitz, & A. Zoli (Eds.), The Palgrave handbook of innovative community and clinical psychologies (pp. 141-158). Palgrave Macmillan.
• Stevens, G., Ratele, K., & Malherbe, N. (2021). An orienting conversation on Africa(n)-centred decolonial community psychologies. In G. Stevens & C. Sonn (Eds.), Decoloniality, knowledge production and epistemic justice in contemporary community psychology (pp. 39-58). Springer.
• Ratele, K., Suffla, S., Swart, L., & Malherbe, N. (2021). Historical trauma and structure in violence against and by young men. In A. De Lannoy, M. Langa & H. Brooks (Eds.), Youth in South Africa: Agency, (in)visibility and national development (353-380). Mapungubwe Institute for Strategic Reflection.
• Suffla, S., Malherbe, N., & Seedat, M. (2020). Recovering the everyday within and for decolonial peacebuilding through politico-affective space. In Y.G. Acar, S.M. Moss, & O.M. Uluğ (Eds.), Researching peace, conflict, and power in the field: Methodological challenges and opportunities (pp. 343-364). Springer.
• Malherbe, N. Suffla, S., & Everitt-Penhale, B. (2019). Engaging praxes for decolonial feminist community psychologies through youth-centred participatory film-making. In F. Boonzaier, & T. van Niekerk (Eds.), Decolonial feminist community psychology (pp. 77-93). Springer.
• Malherbe, N., Suffla, S., Seedat, M., Bawa, U., El-Sayed, H., & Abdo, H. A. (2018). Consciousness-raising capacities of Photovoice: Youth understandings of Egypt’s transitional moment. In T. Shefer, J. Hearn, K. Ratele & F. Boonzaier (Eds.), Engaging youth in activism, research and pedagogical praxis: Transnational and intersectional perspectives on gender, sex, and race (pp. 179-196). Routledge. 

Journal articles

• Malherbe, N., & Ratele, K. (2022). What and for whom is a decolonising African psychology?. Theory & Psychology, 32(1), 116-130.
• Cornell, J., Malherbe, N., Suffla, S., & Seedat, M. (2022). Reflecting critically on the researcher-participant encounter in focus groups: Racialized interactions, contestations and (re)presentations of South Africa’s “protest culture”. Qualitative Research in Psychology, 19(1), 221-243.
• Malherbe, N., & Cornell, J. (2022). Considering poststructuralist discursive community psychology. Social and Personality Psychology Compass. Advance online publication https://doi.org/10.1111/spc3.12661
• Malherbe, N., Ratele, K., Adams, G., Reddy, G., & Suffla, S. (2021). A decolonial Africa(n)-centred psychology of antiracism. Review of General Psychology, 25(4), 437-450.
• Malherbe, N. (2021). A psychopolitical interpretation of de-alienation: Marxism, psychoanalysis, and liberation psychology. Psychoanalysis, Culture & Society, 26(3), 263-283.
• Malherbe, N. (2021). Considering love: Implications for critical political psychology. New Ideas in Psychology, 61, 100851.
• Day, S., Cornell, J., & Malherbe, N. (2021). Discourses of ‘service delivery protests’ in South Africa: An analysis of talk radio. Critical Discourse Studies, 18(2), 245-262.
• Malherbe, N., Seedat, M., & Suffla, S. (2021). Analyzing discursive constructions of community in newspaper articles. American Journal of Community Psychology, 67(3-4), 433-446.
• Ratele, K., Malherbe, N., Suffla, S., Cornell, J., & Taliep, N. (2021). Three pathways for enlarging critical African psychology. South African Journal of Psychology, 51(3), 430-440.
• Malherbe, N. (2021). De-ideologization, liberation psychology, and the place of contradiction. Journal for the Theory of Social Behaviour. Advance online publication https://doi.org/10.1111/jtsb.12322
• Malherbe, N., Seedat, M., & Suffla, S. (2021). Understanding community violence: A critical realist framework for community psychology. Journal of Community Psychology. Advance online publication https://doi.org/10.1002/jcop.22660
• Cornell, J., Malherbe, N., Seedat, M., & Suffla, S. (2021). Discourses of gender and political violence in South Africa. Social Politics: International Studies in Gender, State and Society. Advance online publication https://doi.org/10.1093/sp/jxab005
• Malherbe, N. & Dlamini, S. (2020). Troubling history and diversity: Disciplinary decadence in community psychology. Community Psychology in Global Perspective, 6(2/1), 144-157.
• Malherbe, N., Day, S., Cornell, J., Seedat, M., & Suffla, S. (2020). Exploring police-protester interactions. Peace and Conflict: Journal of Peace Psychology, 26(3), 236-246.
• Malherbe, N. (2020). Articulating liberation psychologies of culture. Journal of Theoretical and Philosophical Psychology, 40(4), 203-218.
• Malherbe, N. (2020). Community psychology and the crisis of care. Journal of Community Psychology, 48(7), 2131–2137.
• Ratele, K., Malherbe, N., Cornell, J., Day, S., Helman, R., Makama, R., Titi, N., Suffla, S., & Dlamini, S. (2020). Elaborations on (a) decolonising Africa(n)-centred feminist psychology. Psychology in Society, 59, 1-19.
• Cornell, J., Seedat, M., Malherbe, N. & Suffla, S. (2020). Splintered politics of memory and community resistance. Journal of Community Psychology, 48(5), 1677-1695.
• Malherbe, N., & Kaminer, D. (2020). Young people’s discursive constructions of fatherhood in South Africa. Journal of Family Studies.  Advance online publication https://doi.org/10.1080/13229400.2020.1739549
• Helman, R., Malherbe, N., & Kaminer, D. (2019). Young people’s reproductions of the ‘father as provider’ discourse: Intersections of race, class, culture and gender within a liberal democracy. Community, Work & Family, 22(2), 146-166.
• Malherbe, N. (2018). Expanding conceptions of liberation: Holding Marxisms with liberation psychology. Theory & Psychology, 28(3), 340-357.
• Ratele, K., Cornell, J., Dlamini, S., Helman, R., Malherbe, N., & Titi, N. (2018). Some basic questions about (a) decolonizing Africa (n)-centred psychology considered. South African Journal of Psychology, 48(3), 331-342.

Professional positions, fellowships & awards

• Editor of Social and Health Sciences
• Action Editor of Journal of Community Psychology
• Counterspace Editor of Psychoanalysis, Culture & Society