Call for Contributions to the Special Issue! 'Decolonising Trauma and Care: Inequality, Healing and Institutional Practice in the Global South' Guest Editors: Professor MariamSeedat-Khan Dr Jayanathan Govender Dr Mbuso Nkosi

Book Review 'Making a Life: Young Men on Johannesburg’s Urban Margins' written by Hannah J. Dawson. 2025. Wits University Press: Johannesburg. Review by Tshepo B. Maake Read at: doi.org/10.1080/2152...

New study alert! 💅 Exploring how South African men who post videos with painted nails navigate, negotiate, and challenge policing of masculinity in online spaces. by Kgothatso Mokgele Read the full Open Access article here: doi.org/10.1080/2152...

How does growing up without a mother shape a young woman's journey into parenthood? 🇿🇦 New research by T.N. Majola & P. Maharaj explores unstable living setups, the erosion of Ubuntu care, and early motherhood challenges. Read the Open-Access paper: doi.org/10.1080/2152...

OUT NOW: Editorial for the Special Issue on 'Troubling Cisheteronormativity: Gender, Sexualities and Society' by Letitia Smuts and Dennis Francis Read in full at : www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Obituary: Robert Wesley Pattman, 14 February 1955–13 August 2025 By: Bernard Dubbeld Read in full at: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

New Research OUT NOW! 'Amawele (Twinship), tradition, and trans identity: Navigating cisheteronormativity among AmaXhosa traditional male initiation ritual of rite of passage' By: Vuyolwethu Ngcofea, Anthony Brownb and Anele Siswanac Read at: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Issue 4 of Volume 55 Out Now! Read Editorial for details and Read Articles at: www.tandfonline.com/toc/rssr20/5...

Many thanks for your outstanding Special Issue proposals!! Due to the high response rate we will be accepting new proposals for 2027/2028

New Study Out Now Indicates: "Educational necropolitics & their intra-connected assemblages of violence are alive & well in most schools that follow Western educational ideals" & calls for "attention" "to resist cishetero sucker punches" Open Access doi.org/10.1080/2152...

New Study Out NOW Indicates that: The visually impaired express hyper-femininity, -masculinity and -ableism. Open Access: doi.org/10.1080/2152...

New Study OUT NOW on: Troubling the Cisheteronormativity Body as an Able-bodied and Cis-gendered Body by Lindokuhle Ubisi Read the OPEN ACCESS article here: doi.org/10.1080/2152...

New Study OUT NOW: 'Sexual Sanctions and Solidarity: Heterosexual Schoolgirls’ Negotiations of Cisheteronormativity in two South African High Schools' by Emmanuel Mayezaa, Deevia Bhanab, Raksha Janakc & Ndumiso Daluxolo Ngidid Read the Open Access article here: doi.org/10.1080/2152...

Call for Special Issues: The South African Review of Sociology (SARS) invites academics to submit proposals for Special Issues. Looking forward to your receiving your Special Issue Proposal!!!!

New Study OUT NOW on: 'The (mis)Representation of “Illegal” Migrant Life: Counter-narratives of Undocumented Zimbabwean Migrants in South Africa' by Johannes Machinya Read the Open Access article here: doi.org/10.1080/2152...

New Study OUT NOW on Women Leaders in Nambia Read the Open Access article here: doi.org/10.1080/2152... #Sociology #AcademicBlueSky #Namibia

The South African Review of Sociology has published heartfelt tributes to the life and work of a dedicated scholar: 'Goodbye, Susan Holland-Muter' 'A Tribute to Dr Susan Holland-Muter' Rest in peace. tandfonline.com/action/showA... #Sociology #Academic #SouthAfrica

Out Now: The latest Special Issue of the @SARS_Journal This volume explores the multifaceted impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic, in South Africa, offering critical sociological insights Read issue here: www.tandfonline.com/toc/rssr20/c... #Sociology #SouthAfrica #AcademicBlueSky #COVID19

Rejecting essentialist cultural explanations of drug abuse & gangsterism this article posits it an outcome of broader structural forces: unemployment, poverty, government neglect & colonial & Apartheid racial exclusions #Tewolde #SARS #Sociology www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Special Issue Remembering Eddie Webster Available NOW See more at: www.tandfonline.com/toc/rssr20/5... #Sociology

Economic Legacies of the #COVIDー19 Pandemic: 'Pandemic-related intertemporal relative deprivation reduced the likelihood of approving political incumbents, potentially contributing to a broader desire for political change'. Read more at: doi.org/10.1080/2152...