As part of the EASA Applied Anthropology Network's Health Club series, I shared some reflections on how anthropological approaches...

In September 2022, I was privileged to share some of the incredible work we do at Percept at the 10th international conference on "Why...

Co-authored with Rose Tuyeni Peter and Daryl Swanepoel https://www.dailymaverick.co.za/article/2022-07-12-five-ways-in-which-south-africa...

Through our brief on #NCDs and Households, we call on healthcare providers, researchers, policymakers and practitioners to look beyond...

Rahima Essop and Beth Vale In the popular imagination, a pupil who drops out is thought of as lazy or irresponsible. Similarly, the...

Thank you Medical Health Humanities Africa for the profile Read more here: https://www.medicalandhealthhumanities.africa/practitioner/bet...

In January 2021, award-winning author and multi-media artist, Phumlani Pikoli, drew a group of storytellers and critics into conversation...

In November 2020, I participated in the Virtual Karoo Writers Festival. I presented excerpts from my working manuscript, which tells the...

A speculative fiction based on many true stories. Abstract: In the early decades of the 1900’s, with tuberculosis having taken hold in...

Life under pandemic, as told through dystopian digital collage.

This article serves as part of an online project, curated by the critical theory journal, Thesis 11. The project is titled Living and...

It’s 5.30am on a cold Tuesday morning in a small Eastern Cape town. It could just as well be any town, in any part of South Africa, since...

In 1971, epidemiologist Abdel Omran, published an influential article in which he declared that humanity was undergoing an...

Every home on earth has been touched by a case of a missing teaspoon. It's a crime that almost always goes unpunished. Not this time....

TMRW Gallery 21 Keyes Art Mile Rosebank Johannesburg 23 January 2020 Most of you will know by now that this exhibition is a collection of...

In times of loss When we find no words to speak of anything When the narrative arcs we spun for our lives are unthreaded Suddenly —...

What often strikes me about human beings and their bodies is how readily they look to deny them. In many contemporary societies, much...

Mind-body dualism (the idea that the soul or 'consciousness' is separable from the body) has been an incredibly forceful idea in human...

As a toddler, I spent most of my days at play-school, with my toes buried in sandpits and my hands covered in paint. Every evening, when...

Every morning, somewhere between 5-7am, my 71-year-old father takes a one-hour walk through the streets of Brixton, Johannesburg. Whether...