Dr Refiloe Makama

Senior Lecturer

Background and research interests

• Critical gender studies
• African-centred Decolonial Feminist Psychologies
• Intergenerational gendered dynamics
• Gendered and gendering customs, practices and rites of passage
• Qualitative research methodologies with an interest in engaged work and narrative methodology

Teaching responsibilities

• Qualitative Research Methods
• Critical Psychology
• Research ethics

Selected publications

• Makama, R & Peters, S. (2023). Precariousness: Panicking while PhDing in a Pandemic and beyond. Psychology in society.
• Makama, R., (2022). Lobolo and the making of men. In Moore, E (Ed.), Generation, Custom and Power in Families. Routledge
• Dery, I., Makama, R., Khan, A, R,. Baataar, C. (2022) configuring traditional masculinities among young men in north-western Ghana: Surveillance, ambivalence, and vulnerabilities. Cogent Social Sciences, 8(1)
• Makama, R., Helman, R., Titi, N., & Day, S. (2019). The danger of a single feminist narrative: African-centred decolonial feminism for Black men. Agenda, 33(3), 61-69.
• Khan, A.R., Ratele, K., Dlamini, S., Makama, R. & Helman, R., (2020). Masculinity and suicide in Bangladesh. OMEGA—Journal of Death and Dying 0(0) 1–23
• Ratele, K., Malherbe, N., Cornell, J., Day, D., Dlamini, D., Helman, R., Makama, R., Titi, N., & Shahnaaz Suffla, S., (2020). Elaborations on (a) Decolonising Africa(n)-centred Feminist Psychology. Psychology in society, 59, 1-19
• Peters, S., Makama, R., Pinheiro, G. (2022). This is our reality”: Reflections from Just Gender Project Partners on Gender Justice work and Covid-19.