线上讲座 | S. Magadla: 游击队与战斗的母亲 Guerrillas and Combative Mothers

Guerrillas and Combative Mothers

游击队与战斗的母亲

主讲人 Speaker：

西波卡齐·马加德拉（Siphokazi Magadla）

讲座时间 Time：

2025年5月22日（星期四） 17:30-19:00（北京时间）

May 22nd, 2025 (Thursday), 17:30-19:00（Beijing Time）

腾讯会议号 Tencent Meeting ID：

803-666-960

会议密码 Password：

250522

主讲人 Speaker：Siphokazi Magadla

（Associate Professor of Political and International Studies at Rhodes University）

Prof. Siphokazi Magadla is from Ludaka in Ngqeleni. She is an Associate Professor and Head of the Department of Political and International Studies at Rhodes University. She teaches and researches on war and militarism in Africa; armed struggle in South Africa; women and South African foreign policy; and African feminisms, gender and citizenship. She is the author of the book ‘Guerrillas and Combative Mothers: Women and the Armed Struggle in South Africa’ (UKZN Press, 2023; Routledge, 2024), which won the NIHSS Humanities and Social Sciences Award for “Best Non-Fiction Monograph” and the Rhodes University Vice Chancellor’s Book Award. She is the co-editor of the Special Issue Thirty years of Male Daughters, Female Husbands: Revisiting Ifi Amadiume’s questions on gender, sex and political economy (2021) in the Journal of Contemporary African Studies. She serves on the editorial boards of the International Feminist Journal of Politics, the Journal of Southern African Studies, the Advisory Board of the Feminist Reimagining of International Studies series (FeRIS) of the Bristol University Press and the Advisory Board of the University of Wisconsin Press Series: Women and Gender in Africa. She is a co-editor of the Journal of Contemporary African Studies. She is an academic mentor of the Social Science Research Council’s Next Generation Social Sciences in Africa Fellowship, which awarded her with the Helen Milner Award; and the Harry Frank Guggenheim African Fellows programme. She served in the Presidential High-Level Review Panel of the State Security Agency in 2018.

主持人：孙遇洲 副教授

（复旦大学历史学系）

Host: Jodie Yuzhou Sun

(Associate Professor of History at Fudan University)

About the Lecture

Guerrillas and Combative Mothers offers a first-hand account of women's participation in the armed struggle against apartheid from 1961 to 1994 and their lives in a democratic South Africa. lt is based on 40 life histories of women who fought with the rural-based Poqo, the military wing of the Pan Africanist Congress; the exile-based uMkhonto we Sizwe, the military wing of the African National Congress; and the township-based self-defence units. Centring women's agency, commitment, beliefs and actions, it details the various ways in which women came to be politicised and the decisions and circumstances that led them to join the armed struggle inside South Africa and in exile.