- Social psychologist, University of Johannesburg
Amy Jo Murray is a researcher based at the University of Johannesburg in South Africa. She is interested in the dynamics of paid domestic labour relationships and in exploring innovative ways to understand our social world, especially by focusing on how we avoid troubling topics.
Experience
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2023–presentAssistant researcher, University of Johannesburg
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2016–2022Lecturer, University of KwaZulu-Natal
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2016–2019Postdoctoral research associate, Center of Excellence-HUMAN
Education
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2019University of KwaZulu-Natal, PhD entitled Maintaining inequality through ‘being silent about’: A dyadic daily diary study establishing the presence of absence in domestic labour relationships
Publications
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2024“I hardly see the husband”: Noticing the absence of men in paid domestic labour research. , Feminism & Psychology, 34(2), 328-346.
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2024Studying intersectionality using ideological dilemmas: The case of paid domestic labour, British Journal of Social Psychology, 63, 1743–1756
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2022Everyday dehumanization: Negative contact, humiliation, and the lived experience of being treated as ‘less than human’, British Journal of Social Psychology, 61, 1050– 1066
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2021Social justice and the persistence of racialized segregation: Segregation, Migration and Transitional Justice, In G. Guy Elcheroth & N. De Mel, (eds.), In the shadow of transitional justice. Routledge
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2021Maintaining the status quo through repressed silences: The case of paid domestic labour in post-apartheid South Africa, Sociology, 55(2), 283-299
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2021The haunting quality of racism, PINS, 62, 46-60
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2020Buttressing whiteness by confessing guilt and rejecting racism: A study of white-talk about paid domestic labour, South African Review of Sociology, 51, 3-16
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2020The unsaid as expressive and repressive political communication: Examining slippery talk about paid domestic labour in post-apartheid South Africa, In M. Demasi, S. Burke, & C. Tileagă, (eds.), Political Communication. Palgrave studies in discursive psychology (pp. 283-302)
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2019‘There was much that went unspoken’: Maintaining racial hierarchies in South African paid domestic labor through the unsaid, Ethnic and Racial Studies, 42(15), 2623-2640
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2019Qualitative studies of silence: The unsaid as social action (Eds), Cambridge University Press
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