Professor Rirhandu Mageza-Barthel

	Name	Rirhandu Mageza-Barthel
	Highest qualification	Dr. phil. (Goethe University Frankfurt, Germany)
	Position	Professor
	Contact details	magezr@unisa.ac.za
	Research interests/expertise	Feminist international relations; post-conflict transformation; postcolonial theory; African–Chinese relations; critical development studies
	Teaching	Peace and Development Studies
	Current projects	Translations of Peace. Revisiting Freedom, Development and Difference

Short biography

Rirhandu Mageza-Barthel is a Professor in Peace and Development Studies at the TM-School (Unisa). As an internationally active scholar, with global experience and a pronounced regional expertise her research focuses on the international relations of the Global South, with an emphasis on gendered post-conflict transformation and African–Chinese relations. With a doctoral degree in Political Studies, she held the Chair for International Gender Politics at the University of Kassel prior to joining Unisa. Mageza-Barthel's involvement in transdisciplinary research contexts has contributed to her teaching portfolio in the social sciences. Her further
practice areas include positions in national and international professional associations, review and advisory activities in her field, as well as editorial work for leading publishing outlets.

Selected publications

• Daniel, A., Mageza-Barthel, R., Richter-Montpetit, M. & Scheiterbauer, T. (eds). (2021). Gewalt, Krieg und Flucht. Feministische Perspektiven auf Sicherheit [Violence, war and refuge: Feminist perspectives on security]. Opladen/Toronto: Budrich Verlag.
• Achenbach, R., Beek, J., Karugia, J.N., Mageza-Barthel, R. & Schulze-Engler, F. (eds). (2020). Afrasian transformations: Transregional perspectives on development cooperation, social mobility and cultural change. Leiden: Brill.
• Dhawan, N., Fink, E., Leinius, J. & Mageza-Barthel, R. (eds). (2016). Negotiating normativity: Postcolonial appropriations, contestations and transformations. Cham/New York: Springer.
• Mageza-Barthel, R. (2015). Mobilizing transnational gender politics in post-genocide Rwanda. London/New York: Routledge. [paperback 2017]