Justice Mugowe Medzani

Description of research and teaching

Justice Medzani is a social anthropologist whose research activities span the domains of family, social identities, conflict/violence in close relationships, victimhood, vulnerability and currently negative emotions in social interactions. He primarily focuses on South Africa and Zimbabwe where his recent past work involved researching gender, masculinities and sexualities and the interplay with interpersonal violence.

He currently works in an interdisciplinary and cross-cultural project on Irritation and Human Sociality. His contribution as part of the team includes the ethnographic and experimental examination of irritation as a negative emotion in human interactions within private and public spaces in Zimbabwe.

Justice obtained his PhD in Sociology at the University of Pretoria, (South Africa), and MSc and BSc in Sociology and Social Anthropology from the University of Zimbabwe.