An edition of University on the border (2021)

University on the border

crisis of authority and precarity

First edition.
University on the border
Lis Lange, Vasu Reddy, Siseko ...
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An edition of University on the border (2021)

University on the border

crisis of authority and precarity

First edition.

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

"The volume explores and thinks through the process of decolonising the South African higher education system by examining #MustFall. The text offers theoretical insights from a historical, contemporary and multidisciplinary lens, while examining the embedded meanings of the university as an institution, idea and set of practices to show the shifts and changes that were inaugurated by #MustFall along with the historicities that define the university both locally and globally. The retro- and prospective insights presented in the book surface the crisis of authority that places the university in a state of precarity, which is framed in the book as the 'border'. The volume proposes the concept of the 'border' (recognising its conceptual and analytical dynamism) as a generative space that can facilitate new imaginaries and articulations of this social institution: the university."--

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Pages
200

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Table of Contents

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

Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references.

Published in
Stellenbosch, South Africa
Series
On higher education transformation -- vol. 3
Copyright Date
2021

Classifications

Library of Congress
LA1538 .U55 2021

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Pagination
xv, 200 pages
Number of pages
200

Edition Identifiers

Open Library
OL43635013M
ISBN 10
1991201346
ISBN 13
9781991201348
OCLC/WorldCat
1336840158

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Work ID
OL31921042W

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