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Name: Dimpho Takane Maponya
Location: B Ring 705 Auckland Park Kingsway Campus
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Tel: +27 (0) 11 559 2734
Email: dimphot@uj.ac.za
About Dr Dimpho Takane Maponya
Supervision Areas: Feminisms, Gender and Sexuality, Epistemic Decolonisation and Ethics.
Dimpho is a senior lecturer in the Philosophy Department and a member of the African Centre of Epistemology and Philosophy of Science (ACEPS) at the University of Johannesburg (UJ).
Her research interests are broadly in African philosophy, feminism, gender, sexuality, decolonisation, and social epistemology.
She is a decolonial African feminist scholar whose work seeks to analyze and interrogate post-colonial theories and praxis in the context of social transformation by adopting what she refers to as a decolonial feminist pragmatist standpoint. She has taught undergraduate courses in African philosophy, feminisms, ethics, metaphysics and epistemology, as well as supervises, very broadly, in areas such as decolonial and post-colonial theory, African philosophy (broadly construed), gender and feminisms and environmental philosophy.
Publications:
- Maponya, D.T., (forthcoming). Realizing and Normalizing “New” Gender Identities. In Amaefula, R. (ed.), Gendered Paradigms and Digital Genres of Popular Expressions in Africa, Routledge.
- Maponya, D.T., 2024. Advancing the Recognition of Women in African Philosophy, Theoria, 71 (181), pp. 59-77.