Jody Metcalfe
As a researcher at the ECMI, Jody is focused on the impacts of digital platform governance, artificial intelligence and digital harm on identity formation of ethnocultural and national minorities in Europe. Additionally she focuses on how minority women create, challenge and build self-representation in the digital sphere. Her research interests include cultural identity formation, identity construction, cultural representation theories, intersectionality, postcolonialism, transitional justice and processes of racialization.
Jody submitted her PhD to the Doctoral College for Intersectionality Studies/ Promotionskollegs für Intersektionalitätsstudien at Universität Bayreuth (Germany) in June 2023. In October 2023, her dissertation, focused on minority identity representation in her native South Africa, was awarded Summa Cum Laude. Her previous studies were completed at the University of Cape Town (South Africa), from which she holds a MPhil in Justice and Transformation in Political Science funded and completed as a Cannon Collins Scholar, a BSocSci (Hons.) in Gender and Transformation from the African Gender Institute and a BSocSci in Political Science and Gender Studies.
Before joining the ECMI, Jody worked as a Critical Race Theory Fellow at the African American Policy Forum (United States), as a researcher at the Institute for Justice and Reconciliation (South Africa) and in various teaching and consulting capacities at the University of Cape Town (South Africa).
- Co-editor of “Minority Women and Intersectionality: Between Exclusion and Empowerment” in Routledge Advances on Minority Studies (April 2024).
- Metcalfe, Jody. “Legacies of the Sexualisation of Race: The Impact of Dominant Narratives of Whiteness on Mixed-Race People in Post-Apartheid South Africa.” Ancestral Futurisms: Embodying Multiracialities Past, Present, and Future, Arizona State University, held virtually, 22-24 February 2022. Kelly Faye Jackson Rudy Guevarra Jr. Alexandrina Agloro, Critical Mixed Race Studies Association, 87-99.
- Metcalfe, Jody. “Dominant Narratives of Whiteness in Identity Construction of Mixed-Race Young Adults in Post-Apartheid South Africa.” Social Sciences. 11.5 (2022): 1-24. doi.org/10.3390/socsci11050205.
- Bennett, Jane., Boswell, Barbara., Hinds, Tawanda., Metcalfe, Jody., and Nganga, I.Kabura. “Activist Leadership and Questions of Sexuality with Young Women: A South African Story.” Feminist Formations. 28.2 (2016): 27-50. doi: 10,1353/ff.201
10/2023: Expert Lecture on “Digital Third Spaces of Belonging” at The Centre for Advanced Studies, Eurac Research, Bolzano-Bozen, Italy. 23-24 October 2023.
09/2023: Young Scholars Network of the European Communication Research and Education Association, Contested Visibilities: Everyday Politics and Online Imaginaries of the Body. 4 September 2023, Lusofona University Lisbon, Portugal. Presentation Title: The Impact of Online Harm on Minority Groups in Europe.
09/2023: European Communication Research and Education Association, Contested Visibilities: Everyday Politics and Online Imaginaries of the Body. 6-8 September 2023, Lusofona University Lisbon, Portugal. Presentation Title: Muslim Female Identity as Disruption in Digital Spaces: From Harm to Resistance.
07/2023 Co-convenor of Minority Women and Intersectionality: A Renewed Research Agenda? at European Centre for Minority Issues, Flensburg, Germany 10-11 July 2023.
05/2022: Canadian Association of African Studies, Conference 2022. May 16-19, 2022 – virtual. Roundtable discussion: Racial literacy: a pathway to anti racism?
02/2022: 6th Critical Mixed-Race Studies Conference, Ancestral Futurisms: Embodying Multiracialities Past, Present, and Future. February 24-26, 2022 – virtual. Presentation Title: The Role of Dominant Narratives of Whiteness in Identity Construction of Mixed-Race South Africans
02/2020: Intersectionality Symposium, “Intersectionality: Theory, Approach, Activism”. February 6-8, 2020, University of Bayreuth, Germany. Presentation Title: Being Mixed-Race in South Africa: An Intersectional Lens.
