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International Journal of Critical Diversity Studies

This fully accredited, peer-reviewed and open access journal is published by Pluto Press in the UK. Housed at WiCDS and edited by the SARCHi Chair in Critical Diversity Studiesit publishes two to three issues a year of cutting-edge interdisciplinary research in the broad area of Diversity Studies. The IJCDS welcomes submissions for articles, book reviews and comments

Please email the editorial assistant, Rudo Mzite for more information.

For special issue proposals please contact the Editor-in-Chief, Nicky Falkof.

Selected Chapters and Articles

Nicky Falkof (2025). Risk processing: Mothering in a time of fear. International Sociology (online first).

Haley McEwen & Anne E. Towns (2025). An anti-gender rhizome? Mapping the transnational contours, connections and dynamics of the anti-gender phenomenonJournal of Gender Studies (online first).

Scott Burnett., Rodrigo Borba & Mie Hiramoto (2025). Hailing, voicing, and masturbation abstention: NoFap’s role in socializing young men into the right-wing politics of ressentiment. Journal of Right-Wing Studies, 2(2).

Dennis Francis & Haley McEwen (2024). Normalising intolerance: The efforts of Christian Right groups to block LGBTIQ+ inclusion in South African schoolsCulture, Health and Sexuality.

Ekaterina A, Zibrova (2024). Indigenous peoples of Russia against the war: Narrative analysis of the stages of ethnic identity as recourse of activism. Ethnologia Polona, 45.  

Haley McEwen (2024). Anti-Gender politics in East and Southern Africa: The ‘Stop Comprehensive Sexuality Education’ campaign. In A. Holvikivi, T. Ojeda, and B. Holzberg (Eds.), Transnational Anti-Gender Politics. London: Palgrave Macmillan.

Joanne Neille, Haley McEwen & Victor de Andrade (2024). An exploration into people with disabilities’ access to sex, sexuality, and sex education in South AfricaSexuality and Disability, 42.

Kudzaiishe P. Vanyoro & Melissa Steyn  (2024). Leveraging Critical Diversity Literacy (CDL) to promote social justice through reflexive research in higher education. International Journal of Critical Diversity Studies, 6(2).

Kudzaiishe P. Vanyoro (2023). Prophets making gendered interventions: a feminist discourse analysis of gendered online miracles, advice, advertisements, and testimonies. In Mehita Iqani (ed), Consuming Happiness.Routledge.

Marina Bergozza, Francesca Coco & Scott Burnett (2024). #GaysForTrump: 'Coming out' as Republican on Twitter. Journal of Language and Sexuality, 13(1).

Melissa Steyn & Kudzaiishe P. Vanyoro (2024). Critical Diversity Literacy: A framework for multicultural citizenship education. Education, Citizenship and Social Justice, 19(3).

Scott Burnett (2024). ‘Without white people, the animals will go!’: COVID-19 and the struggle for the future of South African conservation. Environment and Planning E: Nature and Space, 7(1).  

Anastasia Shvetsova & Ekaterina A. Zibrova (2023). The discourse of Russian state feminism: An analysis of official documents defining the gender agendaThe Journal of Social Policy Studies

Ekaterina Zibrova (2023). Ethnicity as a resource for antiwar resistance. Indigenous people of Russia about the role of ethnic identity to withstand Putins’ warThe International Journal of Critical Diversity Studies, 5(2).

Ekaterina Zibrova (2023). The role of diversity concept in organizational psychology: Literature reviewOrganizatsionnaya Psikhologiya i Psikhologiya Truda [Institute of Psychology of the Russian Academy of Sciences. Organizational Psychology and Psychology of Labor]. 8(2).

Melissa Steyn & Cuthbert Tagwirei (2023). Intersectional delights: White South African diaspora in the US. In Thomas K. Nakayama & Rona Tamiko Halualani (eds), The Handbook of Critical Intercultural Communication. Wiley.

Melissa Steyn & Kudzaishe P. Vanyoro (2023). Critical Diversity Literacy: A framework for multicultural citizenship educationEducation, Citizenship and Social Justice19(3). 

Melissa Steyn & Kudzaishe P. Vanyoro (2023). Debunking critical theory’s ‘indoctrination’ charge: Provisional notes on critical diversity literacy pedagogyResearch in Educational Policy and Management5(3), 128-144.

Scott Burnett (2023). Healthy white nationalists: Far-right Selbstbilder in a digital age. In G. Brookes & M. Chałupnik, (eds) Masculinities and Discourses of Men's Health. Palgrave Macmillan.  

Scott Burnett (2023). Right as rain: affective publics and the changing visual rhetoric of the far right in South Africa. In Bernhard Forchtner (ed), Visualising far-right environments. Manchester University Press.

Haley McEwen (2022). The (geo)politics of gender and sexuality diversity in a multipolar world: Reading African anti-genderisms beyond the transatlantic. Politique Africaine 4.

Scott Burnett (2022). Adamastor Unbound? Whiteness and landscape in post-1994 South Africa. In Alexandra Coțofană & Hikmet Kuran (eds), Sentient Ecologies: Xenophobic Imaginaries of Landscape. Berghahn Books.

Scott Burnett (2022). Ethnoscaping Green resistance: Heritage and the fight against fracking. In Feras Hammami & Evren Uzer (eds), Theorizing heritage through non-violent resistance. Springer.

Aylwyn Walsh & Scott Burnett (2021) Voicing ambiguities in the Ilizwi Lenyaniso Lomhlaba co-creator collective, Research in Drama Education: The Journal of Applied Theatre and Performance.

Haley McEwen (2021). Inventing family: Colonial knowledge politics of ‘family’ and the coloniality of ‘pro-family’ activism in Africa. Africa Today 67(4).  

Kudzaiishe P. Vanyoro, George Mavunga & Zvenyika E. Mugari (2021). Governing bodies? Exploring normative sex and gender discourses in informal herbal healing flyers and posters in Johannesburg CBD. Communicare: Journal for Communication Sciences in Southern Africa, 40(1), 23-48.

Kudzaiishe P. Vanyoro. (2021). An analysis of the intersections between race and class in representations of Black and white gay men in QueerLife. Image & Text, (35).  

Melissa Steyn & Serena O. Dankwa (2021). Revisiting Critical Diversity Literacy: Grundlagen für das einundzwanzigste Jahrhundert. In S. Dankwa, S. Filep, U. Klingovsky & G. Pfruender (eds.) Bildung.Macht.Diversität: Critical Diversity Literacy im Hochschulraum.  

Paddington Mutekwe & Kudzaiishe P. Vanyoro (2021). Politicising COVID-19: An analysis of selected ZANU-PF officials'’ 2020-2021 media statements on the pandemic in Zimbabwe. Acta Academica, 53(2).

Scott Burnett & John E. Richardson (2021). ‘Breeders for race and nation’: gender, sexuality and fecundity in post-war British fascist discourse. Patterns of Prejudice, 55(4).

Annette Knaut, Rajashree Bargohain, & Melissa Steyn (2020). Gender, race and Covid-19. Journal of International Women’s Studies.

Kudzaiishe P. Vanyoro (2020). The construction of ‘normative Zimbabweanness’ through demonisation of rage, anger and emotion in select press coverage of the #ZimShutDown protests. Anthropology Southern Africa, 43(3).

Tommaso M. Milani & Scott Burnett (2020). Queer counterpoints: Making ‘mistakes’ in Love Life’s Make Your Move. Sexualities, 24(1-2).

William Mpofu (2020). A dialogue of civilisations: A decolonial reading of Chinua Achebe. In Siphamandla Zondi (ed), African Voices: In Search of a Decolonial Turn. DeGruyter.

William Mpofu (2020). Coloniality and the myth of universalism in the westernized university. In Busani Mpofu and Sabelo Ndlovu-Gatsheni (eds), The Dynamics of Changing Higher Education in the Global South. Cambridge Scholars.

William Mpofu (2020). Thabo Mbeki: The formation of a philosopher of liberation. In S.O. Oloruntoba & T. Falola (eds), The Palgrave Handbook of African Political Economy. Palgrave Macmillan.

William Mpofu (2020). Xenophobia as racism: The colonial underside of nationalism in South AfricaInternational Journal of Critical Diversity Studies3(2).

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