Hannah Botsis

Hannah is a lapsed academic, a mother, and a writer. A clergyman’s daughter, a white South African, and a Joburger.She holds a PhD in narrative psychology, from the University of the Witwatersrand, where she studied the language biographies of South African students. Her most recent book, Subjectivity, Language and the Postcolonial: Beyond Bourdieu in South Africa, was published by Routledge in 2018. She writes a weekly column about whatever she likes, for whoever likes it, offering down-to-earth insights into family life, social issues, and cultural critique.