Dr Virginia Mapedzahama
Postdoc Fellow, School of Rural Medicine
Qualifications
Doctor of Philosophy (Sociology), Master of Science (Sociology and Social Anthropology), Bachelor of Science (Honours) Sociology
Contact
| Email: | vmapedza@une.edu.au |
| Room: | Professional Development and Leadership (N18) 5.4 |
| Phone: | 02 6773 3986 (or +61 2 6773 3986 overseas) |
| Fax: | 02 6773 3611 |
Virginia is currently developing projects within UNE CRN Stream A that look into:
1) immigrant experiences in rural areas, focusing specifically on mental well being among African migrants and refugees in rural areas (proposed project title: Mental Well-being among African immigrant Communities in Rural and Regional Australia: An exploratory Study);
2) work life experiences of rural health workforce, focussing specifically on the emerging but growing phenomenon of: Fly-in, Fly-out health workforce
Affiliations
African Professionals Australia Inc, Executive Member (Invited)
African Women in Australia Inc, Executive Board (Invited)
African Studies Association of Australasia and the Pacific (AFSAAP), member
Association for Research on Mothering Australia (ARMA), member
Women in Adult and Vocational Education (WAVE), member
The Australian Sociological Association (TASA), member
Areas of Teaching
Sociology (sociology of work, health sociology [social contexts of health], sociology of the family)
Social Research Methods (Qualitative Research)
Gender studies
Race and ethnicity
Research interests
Work/family interaction
Social relations of Work
Women and Work
(African) Migration and African Diaspora
Race, ethnicity and multiculturalism
(African) Feminism
Qualitative Research (Narrative Inquiry)
Publications
BOOK CHAPTERS
Rudge T, Mapedzahama V, West S & Perron A (2012) ‘The Violence of Tolerance in a Multicultural Workplace: Examples from Nursing’, in (Re)thinking Violence in Health Care Settings: A critical approach, D Holmes, T Rudge & Perron A (Eds.) Surrey: Ashgate Publishing pp. 31-46
Mapedzahama, V and Bourdillon M (2000) ‘Street Workers in a Harare Suburb’ in Bourdillon, M (ed) Earning a Life: Working Children in Zimbabwe, Harare: Weaver Press, pp 25-44
Mapedzahama, V (2000) ‘Annotated Bibliography of Published Work on Child Labour in Zimbabwe’, in Bourdillon, M (ed), Earning a Life: Working Children in Zimbabwe, Harare: Weaver Press, pp. 211-219
Forthcoming
Mapedzahama, V and Kwansah-Aidoo, K, Black on Black: Insider positionality and the black African migrant research experience in Australia, in Migration and Mobility from the Inside: Reflections on Insiderness, (eds) L. Voloder and L. Kirpitchenko, Ashgate Publishing (Publication Date: 2013)
JOURNAL ARTICLES
Mapedzahama V, Rudge T, West S and Perron A (2012) ‘Black Nurse in White Space? Rethinking the In/Visibility of Race Within the Australian Nursing Workplace’, Nursing Inquiry, vol. 19 no 2, pp. 153-164
West S, Mapedzahama V, Ahern M, and Rudge T (2012) ‘Rethinking Shiftwork: Midlife Nurses Making it Work!’ Nursing Inquiry, vol. 19 no. 2, pp. 177-187
Mapedzahama, V (2009) ‘Weaving Paid Work, Informal Sector Work and Motherhood in Harare (Zimbabwe): A New Arena for Research?’ The Australasian Review of African Studies, vol. 30 no. 1, pp. 64-82
Mapedzahama, V (2009) ‘”It’s Hard Being a Mother, a Worker and a Wife!”: Researching Women’s Work/life Negotiations in Zimbabwe’, International Journal of Interdisciplinary Social Sciences, vol. 3, no. 11, pp. 171-180
Mapedzahama, V (2007) ‘The Crisis of Representation: An African Researcher’s Dilemmas in Doing Feminist Cross-Cultural Research in Africa and in the West’, Outskirts: Feminism on the Edge Online Journal, vol. 17
Refereed Conference Proceedings
Mapedzahama V, Rudge T, West S and Perron A (2011) ‘Racial/ised Visibility and Problematised Difference in Australian Workplaces: The case of skilled black African migrant nurses’, in Directions and Intersections: Proceedings of the 2011 Australian Critical Race and Whiteness Studies Association and Indigenous Studies Research Network Joint Conference, ebook eds: Riggs, DW and Due, C, the Australian Critical Race and Whiteness Studies Association, ISBN: 978-0-646-56682-5
Mapedzahama, V and Kwansah-Aidoo, K (2010) ‘“Where are you from?” The Paradox of African Identity and Belonging in Australia’, in TASA (The Australian Sociological Association) 2010 Conference Proceedings: Social Causes, Private Lives, eds: Velayutham S, Ebert N, Watkins S, The Australian Sociological Association, ISBN:978-0-646-54628-5
Mapedzahama, V (2005)’Worlds Apart?: On Doing Feminist Cross-cultural Comparative Research’, in Proceedings of the Women in Research Conference : A National Conference About “Women Doing Research”, Central Queensland University, Gladstone, p. 1-11
Publications in Review
Mapedzahama, V and Kwansah-Aidoo, K Negotiating Diasporic Black African Existence in Australia: A Reflexive Analysis, submitted to Australasian Review of African Studies
Chau, YM; West S and Mapedzahama V, Night Work and the Reproductive Health of Women: An Integrated Literature Review, submitted to the Journal of Midwifery and Women’s Health
Rudge T, Mapedzahama V, West S and Perron A, The Unknowing ‘Other’ or Un/knowing the ‘Other’? Theorising Ignorance and the Maintenance of White Privilege in Australian Nursing Workplaces, submitted to the Ethnic and Racial Studies Journal
Reports
Mapedzahama, V (2005) “South Australia Report” in Getting Real? Girls and Young Women: Working Futures, VET and VET in Schools, eds E. Butler and R Woolley, pp. 59-68, Report for Security4Women (S4W) & Federal Office for Women, Australia on Research undertaken by WAVE (Women in Adult and Vocational Education Inc.)
Mapedzahama, V (2005) “Methodology” in Getting Real? Girls and Young Women: Working Futures, VET and VET in Schools, eds E. Butler and R Woolley, pp. 19-20, Report for Security4Women (S4W) & Federal Office for Women, Australia on Research undertaken by WAVE (Women in Adult and Vocational Education Inc.)
Sithole, E and Mapedzahama, V (1999) Impacts of the Social Dimensions Fund (SDF) on Families in Need, A Report for the Ministry of Labour, Public Service and Social Welfare, Government of Zimbabwe
Invited Presentations
Mapedzahama, V (2011) ‘Skilled African migrant nurses’ experiences of work and care’, paper presented to the Work Family Policy Roundtable, University of Sydney, 17-18 November
Mapedzahama, V (2010) ‘African Mother[ing] and Ideologies of Economic Motherhood: Examples from Zimbabwe’, paper presented at the Association for Research on Mothering (Australia) Symposium: Gaining Ground: Care and the Maternal across Culture, Australian National University, Canberra, 2 October
Mapedzahama, V (2009) ‘Women, Work and Education in Zimbabwe: A Brief Overview’, paper presented at the Women in Adult and Vocational Education (WAVE) Annual Dinner, Sydney, Australia, 15 June
Conferences
West, S and Mapedzahama, V, (2012) ‘(Re)problematizing shift-work: A small step towards the political!’, paper presented at the Institute for Philosophical Nursing Research International Conference II, Banff, Alberta, Canada, 13-15 May (refereed abstract)
Mapedzahama, V, Rudge, T, West, S and Perron, A (2011) ‘Racial/ised Visibility and Problematised Difference in Australian Workplaces: The case of skilled black African migrant nurses’, paper presented at the Australian Critical Race and Whiteness Studies Association 2011 Conference Proceedings: Directions and Intersections, Surfers Paradise, 7-9 December
Kwansah-Aidoo, K and Mapedzahama, V (2011) ‘“That’s because I am black; there’s no [other] reason!” Everyday racism and the new black African diaspora in Australia’, paper presented at the African Studies Association of Australasia and the Pacific (AFSAAP) Annual Conference, Flinders University, 30 November – 2 December
Mapedzahama, V, Rudge, T, West, S and Perron, A (2011) ‘How cosmopolitan can the racialised other be/come! Rethinking the cosmopolitan Ideal and the White Racial Frame in Australia’, paper presented at the Asia-Pacific Researchers in Organisation Studies 14th Biennial Conference, Auckland University of Technology, Auckland, New Zealand, 29 November – 1 December (refereed abstract)
Kwansah-Aidoo, K and Mapedzahama, V (2011) ‘The burden of blackness: The white gaze, everyday racism and the black African experience in Australia’, paper presented at the International Year for People of African Descent Conference, Sydney, 29-30 September
Rudge, T, Mapedzahama, V, West, S and Perron, A (2011) ‘The Unknowing ‘Other’ or Un/knowing the ‘Other’? Theorising Ignorance and the Maintenance of White Privilege in Australian Nursing Workplaces’, paper presented at the Sixth International Conference on Interdisciplinary Social Sciences, The University of New Orleans, 11-13 July
Mapedzahama, V, Rudge, T West, S and Perron, A (2011) Paradoxical Migrant Motherhood: Experiences of Black African nurses in Australia, paper presented at the Australian Motherhood Initiative for Research and Community Involvement (AMIRCI) Sixth Australian International, Interdisciplinary Conference on Motherhood, The University of Queensland, 27-30 April
West, S and Mapedzahama, V, (2010) ‘Challenging the “Problematising of Shiftwork” to Explore the “Shift” “Work” Nexus in Nursing’, paper presented at the Institute for Philosophical Nursing Research International Conference, Banff, Alberta, Canada, 16-18 May (refereed abstract)
Rudge, T, Mapedzahama, V, Perron, A and West, S (2010) ‘Unravelling the paradox of skilled migration: ethnographic explorations of racism at work’, paper presented at the Work, Organisation and Ethnography 5th Annual Symposium, University of Liverpool, 1-3 September (refereed abstract)
Mapedzahama, V and Kwansah-Aidoo, K (2010) “Where are you from?” The Paradox of African Identity and Belonging in Australia, refereed paper presented at The Australian Sociological Association 2010 Conference, Macquarie University, 6-9 December
Mapedzahama, V, Rudge, T West, S and Perron, A (2010) The Paradox of Skilled Nurse Migration in Australia: The Case of Black African Migrant Nurses, paper presented at the African Studies Association of Australasia and the Pacific (AFSAAP) Annual Conference, Victoria University, 2-4 December
Rudge, T, Mapedzahama, V, West, S and Perron, A (2010) The Violence of Tolerance in a Multiethnic Workplace: Examples from Nursing, paper presented at The Australian Sociological Association 2010 Conference, Macquarie University, 6-9 December
Mapedzahama, V (2009) What Kind of Mother(ing) is this? Conceptualising an Ideology of ‘Economic Motherhood’ in Zimbabwe, paper presented at the Association for Research on Mothering Australia International Conference (The Mother” And History: Past/Present/Future), University Of Queensland, 2-4 July
Mapedzahama, V and Kwansah-Aidoo, K (2009) What’s Colour Got to Do with It? Narratives from the New African Diaspora in Australia, paper presented at the African Studies Association of Australasia and the Pacific (AFSAAP) Annual Conference, University of Queensland, 30 September- 2 October
Mapedzahama, V (2008) Work and Family in a Cross Cultural Context: A Comparative Review of Work/life Experiences of Working Mothers in Adelaide (Australia) And Harare (Zimbabwe), paper presented at the African Studies Association of Australasia and the Pacific (AFSAAP) Annual Conference, Monash University, Melbourne, 26-28 November
Mapedzahama, V (2008) “This business of selling things on the side is what helps us make ends meet!” Informal Sector Activities of Working Mothers in Harare: Women Balancing and Weaving, paper presented at the “Africans in Australia and Outsiders in Africa”: African Studies Association of Australasia and the Pacific (AFSAAP) Annual Conference, Australian National University, Canberra, 31 January-2 February
Mapedzahama, V (2008) Lost in Translation? A Researcher’s Challenges and Dilemmas Conducting PhD Research in Two Languages, paper presented at the African Studies Association of Australasia and the Pacific (AFSAAP) Postgraduate Seminar, Australian National University, Canberra, 31 January-2 February
Mapedzahama, V (2007) “I Guess a Good Mother is One Who is Able to Provide for Her Family Too…” Mothering and Paid Work in Australia and Zimbabwe, paper presented at the: Our Work… Our Lives: National Conference on Women and Industrial Relations, Adelaide, South Australia, 20-21 September
Butler, E Woolley, R, Mapedzahama, V and Daniels, J (2005) Getting Real? Girls and Young women: Working Futures, VET and VET in Schools In-conversation presentation on Project & Report: Report for Security4Women (S4W) & Federal Office for Women at the WAVE National Conference, Canberra Institute of Technology, Australia, April
Mapedzahama, V (2005) Worlds Apart? On Doing Feminist Cross-Cultural Comparative Research, refereed paper presented at the Women in Research National Conference Central Queensland University, Gladstone Campus, 24-25 November