• The second wave of violence scholarship: South African synergies with a global research agenda 

  Bowman, Brett; Stevens, Garth; Eagle, Gillian; Langa, Malose; Kramer, Sherianne; Kigua, Peace; Nduna, Mzikazi (Elsevier, 2015)

  Violence is a serious public health and human rights challenge with global psychosocial impacts across the human lifespan. As a recently classified middle-income country (MIC), South Africa experiences high levels of ...
• Bridging risk and enactment: the role of psychology in leading psychosocial research to augment the public health approach to violence in South Africa 

  Bowman, Brett; Stevens, Garth; Eagle, Gillian; Maztopoulos, Richard (2014)

  In the wake of apartheid, many in the South African health and social sciences shifted their orientation to understanding violence. Rather than approaching violence as a criminal problem, post-apartheid scholarship surfaced ...
• Confessing sex in online student communities 

  Dominguez-Whitehead, Yasmine; Whitehead, Kevin A.; Bowman, Brett (Elsevier, 2017)

  In this paper, we examine Facebook “Confessions” sites associated with two large universities (one North American and one South African) to investigate the ways in which students interactionally negotiate normativity in ...
• Producing, ratifying and resisting support in an online support forum 

  Kaufman, Samantha; Whitehead, Kevin A. (Sage, 2016)

  Previous research examining online support forums has tended to focus either on evaluating their effectiveness while paying limited or no attention to the details of the interactions therein, or on features of their social ...
• Extreme-Case Formulations 

  Whitehead, Kevin A. (Wiley, 2015)

  Extreme case formulations (ECFs) are semantically extreme formulations that invoke the maximal or minimal properties of events or objects, such as “everyone,” “nobody,” “always,” “never,” “completely,” “nothing,” and so ...
• Moving Forward by Doing Analysis 

  Whitehead, Kevin A. (Sage, 2012)

  In this paper, I address some of the issues for the analysis of categorial features of talk and texts raised by Stokoe’s ‘Moving forward with membership categorization analysis: Methods for systematic analysis.’ I begin ...
• Producing and Responding to –isms in Interaction 

  Whitehead, Kevin A.; Stokoe, Elizabeth (Sage, 2015)

  We provide an introduction to some of the conceptual and methodological debates with respect to the focus of this special issue on –isms (a term used to refer to phenomena such as racism, sexism, and heterosexism), focusing ...
• Everyday Antiracism in Action: Preference Organization in Responses to Racism 

  Whitehead, Kevin A. (Sage, 2015)

  This paper examines features of preference organization in disaffiliative responses to possibly racist actions, drawing on a corpus of over 120 hours of recorded interactions from South African radio call-in shows. My ...
• Race trouble: Attending to race and racism in online interaction 

  Durrheim, Kevin; Greener, Ross; Whitehead, Kevin A. (2014)

  This article advocates the concept of Race Trouble as a way of synthesizing variation in racial discourse, and as a way of studying how social interaction and institutional life continue to be organized by conceptions of ...
• The anatomy of ‘race trouble’ in online interactions 

  Cresswell, Catherine; Whitehead, Kevin A.; Durrheim, Kevin (Taylor & Francis, 2014-01)

  South Africa has a long history of race-related conflicts in a variety of settings, but the use of the concept ‘racism’ to analyse such conflicts is characterized by theoretical and methodological difficulties. In this ...
• Food Talk: A Window into Inequality among University Students 

  Dominguez-Whitehead, Yasmine; Whitehead, Kevin A. (De Gruyter Mouton, 2014-01)

  Although initially related to the country’s colonial and apartheid history, material inequality in South Africa has deepened, with recent research suggesting that South Africa now has the highest levels of inequality in ...
• ‘Race’, social transformation and redress in the South African social and health sciences 

  Bowman, Brett (Unisa Press, 2006)
• Data to action: An overview of crime, violence and injury in South Africa 

  Suffla, Shahnaaz; Van Niekerk, Ashley; Bowman, Brett; Matzopoulos, Richard (Medical Research Council, 2008)
• Applying upstream interventions for interpersonal violence prevention: An uphill struggle in low- to middle-income contexts 

  Matzopoulos, Richard; Bowman, Brett; Mathews, Shanaaz; Myers, Jonny (Health Policy, 2010)

  In South Africa’s Western Cape province, interpersonal violence was identified among the key prevention priorities in the provincial government’s Burden of Disease (BoD) Reduction project. To date, there are no adequate ...
• Children, pathology and politics: a genealogy of the paedophile in South Africa between 1944 and 2004 

  Bowman, Brett (South African Journal of Psychology, 2010)

  By the early 1990s the paedophile as a ‘type’ of child sexual abuse (CSA) perpetrator was prioritised for study and intervention by the South African socio-medical sciences and cases of paedophilia featured prominently in ...
• Managing Self-Other Relations in Complaint Sequences: The use of Self-Deprecating and Affiliative Racial Categorizations 

  Whitehead, Kevin A (Taylor & Francis, 2013-04)

  The production and reception of complaints in talk-in-interaction is shaped by a range of interactional contingencies, including matters of alignment and affiliation between the complainant and complaint recipient(s), and ...
• Race-Class Intersections as Interactional Resources in Post-Apartheid South Africa 

  Whitehead, Kevin A (Sage, 2013)
• The Professional Consequences of Political Silence 

  Whitehead, Kevin A. (2013-03-13)

  The article discusses the moral limits and professional consequences of the political dimensions of silence. It cites the debates on the article "How Do I Live in This Strange Place?" by Samantha Vice in which she stated ...
• Racial Categories as Resources and Constraints in Everyday Interactions: Implications for Racialism and Non-Racialism in Post-Apartheid South Africa 

  Whitehead, Kevin A. (2013-03-13)

  The anti-apartheid struggle was characterized by tensions between the opposing ideologies of non-racialism (exemplified by the Freedom Charter) and racialism (exemplified by Black Consciousness). These tensions have remained ...
• Some Uses of Head Nods in “Third Position” in Talk-in-Interaction 

  Whitehead, Kevin A. (2013-03-13)

  Previous research on the use of head nods in talk-in-interaction has demonstrated that they can be used for various interactional purposes by speakers and recipients in different sequential positions. In this report, I ...

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