Professor Elena Moore

Professor

MA, PhD Trinity College, Dublin

Consultation Times:
(by appointment) 
Please email me in advance.

I am a Professor of Sociology in the Department of Sociology at the University of Cape Town. I am the author of Generation, Gender and Negotiating Custom in South Africa (Routledge, 2022), Divorce, Families and Emotion Work (Palgrave, 2017) and (with Chuma Himonga) Reform of Customary Marriage, Divorce and Succession in South Africa (Juta & Co. 2015), as well as numerous journal articles and book chapters. I am a recipient of the Distinguished Teaching Award 2021, University of Cape Town. I obtained a Wellcome Career Award, 2023-2028 to develop and grow a research programme in Family Caregiving of Older Persons in Southern Africa (www.familycaregiving.org.za). I also received the Vice Chancellor Social Responsiveness Award, University of Cape Town, 2023.

Books

Moore, E. (2017) Divorce, Families and Emotion Work: Only Death Will Make Us Part. Basingstoke, Palgrave Macmillan. (http://www.palgrave.com/de/book/9781137438218)

Himonga, C and Moore, E (2015) Reform of Customary Marriage, Divorce and Intestate Succession in South Africa. Juta & Co. Ltd. https://juta.co.za/catalogue/reform-of-customary-marriage-divorce-and-succession-in-south-africa_23982/

Moore, E (2022) Generation, Gender and Negotiating Custom in South Africa. London, Routledge.

https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/edit/10.4324/9781003147398/generation-gender-negotiating-custom-south-africa-elena-moore

Editorship Journal Special Issue

2023. Family Caregiving of Older Persons in Southern Africa. Special Issue of International Journal of Care and Caregiving. (Co-edited with Debora Price) (forthcoming Mar 2023)

2019. Social Protection, Intergenerational Relationships and Conflict in South Africa. Special Issue of Critical Social Policy (Co-edited with Jeremy Seekings). Vol 39(4)

Articles in Refereed Journals (selected few)

  1. Moore, E. (2023). Family care for older persons in South Africa: heterogeneity of the carer’s experience. International Journal of Care and Caring, 7(2), 265-286.
  2. Moore, E., & Price, D. (2023). Editorial. International Journal of Care and Caring, 7(2), 201-211.
  3. Cantillon, S. Moore, E and Teasdale, N (2021) Covid-19 and the pivotal role of grandparents:  childcare and income support in South Africa and the UK. Feminist Economics. 27:1-2, 188-202
  1. Moore, E (2020) Financing Social Reproduction:  Women’s responsibilities in financing and undertaking household social reproduction in multigenerational households in South Africa. Revue internationale des études du développement. Care, inégalités et politiques aux Suds. Special Issue on Care, Inequalities and Policies in the Global South]. 242 (2) 37-62.
  2. Moore, E (2019) Who has a duty to support? Care practices and legal responsibilities in South Africa. Critical Social Policy. Vol 39(4)582-598 https://doi.org/10.1177/0261018319867595.
  1. Moore E and Seekings J (2019) Consequences of Social Protection on Intergenerational Relationships in South Africa. Critical Social Policy. Vol 39(4) 513-524

Public Sociology (selected few)

Moore, Elena; Kelly, Gabrielle (2023). Funding Elder Care in South Africa Report. University of Cape Town. Report. https://doi.org/10.25375/uct.24146772.v3

Moore, Elena; Kelly, Gabrielle (2023). Older Persons and Community Care in South Africa Report. University of Cape Town. Report. https://doi.org/10.25375/uct.24146409.v4

Moore, E Moore, E (2023) Caring for the Elderly: An age old burden that rests heavily on the shoulders of women. https://www.dailymaverick.co.za/article/2023-03-07-caring-for-the-elderly-an-age-old-burden-that-rests-heavily-on-the-shoulders-of-women/

Research Awards (selected list)

  • Wellcome Career Award: A Research Programme on Family Caregiving of Older Persons in Southern Africa, 2023 – 2028 (GBP 1 million, approx. ZAR 20 million)
  • Distinguished Teaching Award, 2021, University of Cape Town
  • Social Responsiveness Award, 2023, University of Cape Town
  • Global Challenges Research Fund, Networking Grant Scheme, Principal Investigator, Dec 2020 – Nov 2022
  • NRF Replacement Chair in Customary Law, Human Rights and Indigenous Values, Principal investigator.

Topics interested in supervising.

I am primarily interested in supervising research that is focussed on social change in personal life, inequalities in family life and the relationship between families and the state. This could include research on intergenerational relationships, care and kinship, family or child policy, customary marriage, divorce, division of labour and resources in households, transnational families, lone motherhood etc. I will supervise projects in any aspect of personal life, intimacy, gender and generational relationships, family, and/or social change. I am focussing on family care of older persons in Southern African families, in particular, I am interested in supervising anything which investigates care and kinship in Southern Africa.