Floretta Boonzaier

Floretta Boonzaier is Professor at the Department of Psychology, University of Cape Town, South Africa and Co-Director of the Hub for Decolonial Feminist Psychologies in Africa. She is noted for her work in feminist, critical qualitative and decolonial psychologies, her writing on intersectional subjectivities and on gendered and sexual violence. She is also noted for her expertise in qualitative methodologies, specifically in narrative, decolonial, feminist and participatory approaches. She has published widely and her selected recent publications include the book Pan-Africanism and Psychology in Decolonial Times (authored with Kessi and Gekeler) published by Springer (2022); Men, Masculinities and Intimate Partner Violence (with Gottzén & Bornholt) published by Routledge (2020) and Decolonial Feminist Community Psychology (with van Niekerk) published by Springer (2019). Her most recent publication, The Gendered and Sexual Lives of South Africa Youth: Young people’s stories of identity (with Simone Peters) is published by BestRed. She is past president of the Psychological Society of South Africa, is current Associate Editor for the South African Journal of Science and has served on a number of journal editorial boards.