University on the border crisis of authority and precarity.

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The volume explores and thinks through the process of decolonising the South African higher education system by examining #MustFall.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Lange, Lis
Otros Autores: Reddy, Vasu, Kumalo, Siseko H.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Stellenbosch : African Sun Media, 2021.
Colección:On Higher Education Transformation Ser.
Temas:
Education, Higher > South Africa.
Decolonization > South Africa.
Enseignement supérieur > Afrique du Sud.
Décolonisation > Afrique du Sud.
Decolonization
Education, Higher
South Africa
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Intro
  • CONTENTS
  • Book Series
  • Author Biographies
  • Introduction: #MustFall
  • Aporia, doubt and possibility on the border
  • References
  • 1. University on the Border: Crisis of authority
  • Introduction
  • On borders and authority
  • (De)-authorisation and the refounding of the University
  • The university is colonial, racist and patriarchal
  • The composition of the academic body reflects white supremacy and patriarchy
  • The University is elitist and exclusive
  • The University curriculum is white and Western and obliterates other epistemologies
  • Heteronormative patriarchal culture
  • The governance, management and administration of the University is fully complicit with a colonial system of oppression and not to be trusted with decolonisation
  • The University 'rational discourse' is a way of silencing black pain and constitutes an obstacle to decolonisation
  • University knowledge and culture universalises the white experience
  • The crisis of the University's authority in perspective
  • Relevant knowledge versus universal knowledge
  • Conclusion
  • References
  • 2. Gatherings of Academic Crowds as World-Historical Events: On the passage of a few students through brief moments in time
  • Introduction
  • World ordering in the long nineteenth century
  • Synchronicity in protesting world ordering
  • Berkeley, 1 October 1964
  • Paris, 10-11 May 1968
  • Tokyo, 21 October 1968
  • Kingston, 16 October 1968
  • Montréal, 29 January 1969
  • Struggles charged in the second moment
  • The present juncture
  • Protests making history worldwide
  • London, 10 November 2010 (and again on November 24 and 30, and December 9)
  • Santiago, 4 and 19 August 2011
  • Montréal, 22 May 2012
  • San Cristobal, 4 February 2014
  • New Haven, Connecticut, 5 November 2015
  • Cape Town, 9 April 2015
  • Seattle, 24 May 2016
  • The wordly dialectics of university politics
  • Conclusion
  • References
  • 3. #MustFall-TheEvent: Rights, student activism and the transformation of South African universities
  • Introduction
  • Student politics and protest in context
  • #MustFall-The Event
  • Retreating rights
  • Conclusion
  • References
  • 4. Unequal Egalitarians: The root of seeing the few as the many
  • Introduction
  • The language of the many, the outcomes of the few
  • Subordinate class: The paradox of the South African left
  • The (partial) alternative of the 1970s
  • A left alternative?
  • The reality of race
  • References
  • 5. Décolonisation Destituante
  • Introduction
  • Mannoni's self-assessment
  • References
  • 6. The Decolonisation of Myself
  • 7. Precarious Authority and the Future of the University
  • Introduction
  • Anguish and the search for answers
  • Pedagogy, power and citizenship
  • Canon constitution
  • Academic freedom as the future of the University
  • References

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