Prof Hugo Canham

Books

A selection of research publications from the last five years:

Books:

Canham ka, Hugo. (2023). Riotous Deathscapes by Duke University Press and copublished by Wits University Press.

Khunou, G., Phaswana, E., Khoza-Shangase, & Canham, H. (Eds.). (2019). Black academic voices: The South African experience. HSRC Press.

Book Chapters:

Canham, H. Noni Jabavu and early twentieth century black educated elite sensibilities. In Bhekizizwe Peterson, Khwezi Mhkize & Makhosazana Xaba. (2022). In The Meaning of Foundational Writers: Abrahams, Jabavu, Nyembezi and Mphahlele Across A Century. Johannesburg: Wits University Press.

Canham, H., Baloyi, L. & Segalo, P. Disrupting the canon? Exploring African-centred decolonial pedagogy. In: G. Stevens & Sonn, C. (2021). Decoloniality and Epistemic Justice in Contemporary Community Psychology. 193-212. New York: Springer.

Canham, H. The Polemic Body. In: Khunou, G., Phaswana, E., Khoza-Shangase, & Canham, H. (Eds.). (2019). Black academic voices: The South African experience. Cape Town: HSRC Press. 

Khunou, G., Canham, H., Khoza-Shangase, & Phaswana E.D. Black in the academy: Reframing knowledge, the knower, and knowing. In: Khunou, G., Phaswana, E., Khoza-Shangase, & Canham, H. (Eds.). (2019). Black academic voices: The South African experience. Cape Town: HSRC Press. 

Peer reviewed articles:

Canham, H. (2022). Thriving in the shadows: Black men’s habitus in the academy. Gender Questions. 10(1), 1-18. ISSN:2309-9704

Canham, H, Bowman, B., Langa, M., Graham, T., Jithoo, V., Stevens, G. & Alexander, D. (2022). Conundrums for teaching decolonial critical community psychology in the context of neo-liberal market pressures. Journal of Social Issues. 78: 366-387. ISSN:0022-4537.

Matebula, M. and Canham, H. (2022). The affective afterlife of naked body protests. Feminism & Psychology.

Raymond, Z. and Canham, H. (2022). Refusing the racial patriarchy of academia. Women’s accounts of their academic careers at South African universities. Gender and Education, 34(8), 991-1008. ISSN:1360-0516.

Mhlongo, N. B. and Canham, H. (2021). Dog walking: Doing class and undoing anthropocentrism. PINS – Psychology in Society, 62, 5-24. ISSN:1015-6046.

Canham, H. 2021. Getting out, remaining stuck. Psychoanalytic Practice, 29(1), 21-32. ISSN:2709-6971

Goldschmidt, L., Langa, M., Alexander, D and Canham, H. (2021). A review of Kohlberg’s theory and its applicability in the South African context through the lens of early childhood development and violence. Early Child Development and Care. 191(7-8), 1066-1078. ISSN:0300-4430.

Canham, H. 2021. Thanatopolitics and fugitive mourning in pandemic death. Social and Health Sciences. 19(1), 1-17. ISSN:2499-2240.

Canham, H. (2021). Black death and mourning as pandemic. Journal of Black Studies, 52(3), 296-309. ISSN:0021-9347.

Canham, H. (2021). Zulu Love Letter: Drawing in and re-assembling. SAFUNDI: The Journal of South African and American Studies, 22(1), 11-14. ISSN:1753-3171.

Canham, H, & Maier, C. (2020). In the blood: the consequences of naturalising micro-segregation in the workplace. Group & Organisation Management. Vol. 45(5), 674–708. ISSN:1059-6011.

Canham, H; Kotze, E; Nkomo, N; and Nkomo, S. (2020). Retrieving grandfathers and histories through objects and affective registers. Emotion, Space and Society. 34, 1-8. ISSN:1755-4586.

Bell, D; Canham, H; Dutta, U; and Fernandez, J. (2020). Retrospective Autoethnographies: A call for a decolonial imaginings for the New University. Qualitative Inquiry. Vol. 26(7) 849–859. ISSN:1552-7565.

Canham, H. (2019). “Tea girl & garden boy” bankers: Exploring substantive equality in bankers’ narratives. Equality, Diversity and Inclusion: An international journal. 38(4), 402-416. ISSN:2040-7149.

Canham, H & Maier, C. (2018). Women bankers in black and white: exploring raced, classed and gendered coalitions. Social Dynamics. p. 1-19. ISSN: 0253-3952

Canham, H. (2018). Reviled Knowledges in the South African University. UFAHAMU: A Journal of African Studies. Vol. 40(2). p. 3-25. ISSN:0041-5715

Pillay, R, Pretorius, E, Canham, H. (2018). “Are we getting socially just pedagogy right? Reflections from social work praxis”. Journal of Human Behavior in the Social Environment. ISSN:1091-1359

Canham, H. (2018). Theorising Community Rage for Decolonial Action. South African Journal of Psychology. p. 1-12. ISSN:0379-6175

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Hugo Canham is a Professor at the Institute for Social and Health Sciences, University of South Africa. His work is located along the fault lines of black studies, African feminism, African queer theorisations and necropolitics. He studies the phenomenology of living at the margins of human value, suffering and death. His work is invested in detonating the binaries between the human and the natural, multispecies world. It may be understood within the transdisciplinary rubric of Black Planetary Studies. His latest book, Riotous Deathscapes is published by Duke University Press and copublished by Wits University Press.