Epistemic Justice and the Postcolonial University
Across the world, universities are grappling with the colonial legacies that have shaped them. That struggle is especially vital in South Africa where the Rhodes Must Fall and Fees Must Fall movements have catalysed decolonial activism and discourse against the legacy of apartheid in higher educatio...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Johannesburg
Wits University Press
2023
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| Edition: | 1 |
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| ISBN: | 1776147863, 9781776147847, 9781776147861, 1776147847 |
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| Summary: | Across the world, universities are grappling with the colonial
legacies that have shaped them. That struggle is especially vital
in South Africa where the Rhodes Must Fall and Fees Must Fall
movements have catalysed decolonial activism and discourse against
the legacy of apartheid in higher education. This collection asks
what epistemic justice might look like in teaching, learning and
research across multiple academic disciplines. Each author writes
from first-hand experience of teaching at the University of Cape
Town, an institution that was and remains a key site of complicity
with and resistance against settler colonialism, apartheid, and
their ongoing oppressions. The contributors trace power relations
that are embedded in various teaching and learning spaces at UCT,
asking critical questions about the kinds of subjects and objects
of knowledge that are produced by their disciplines. Further, they
explore new ideas, texts, and intellectual and pedagogical
practices that can help academics interrogate, challenge and
transform the dominant power relations in the South African
academy. Collectively, these chapters work to imagine new subjects
of knowledge in the postcolonial university through an ethic of
epistemic justice. At a time when debates on decolonisation have
gained urgency in academic, civic and public spaces, this
interdisciplinary collection serves as a valuable archive
documenting and reflecting on a turbulent period in South African
higher education. It is an important resource for academics looking
to grasp debates on decoloniality both in South Africa, and in
university and teaching spaces further afield. Calling for
concerted and collaborative work towards greater epistemic justice
across diverse disciplines, the book puts forward a new vision of
the postcolonial university as one that enables excellent teaching
and learning, undertaken in a spirit of critical consciousness and
reciprocity.
At a time when debates on decolonisation have gained urgency in
academic, civic and public spaces, this interdisciplinary
collection by authors based at the University of Cape Town, South
Africa, serves as a valuable archive documenting and reflecting on
a turbulent period in South African higher education. It is an
important resource for academics looking to grasp debates on
decoloniality both in South Africa, and in university and teaching
spaces further afield. Calling for concerted and collaborative work
towards greater epistemic justice across diverse disciplines, the
book puts forward a new vision of the postcolonial university as
one that enables excellent teaching and learning, undertaken in a
spirit of critical consciousness and reciprocity. |
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| ISBN: | 1776147863 9781776147847 9781776147861 1776147847 |