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Fees Must Fall

Author : Susan Booysen
Publisher : NYU Press
ISBN 13 : 1868149870
Total Pages : 300 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (681 download)

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Download or read book Fees Must Fall written by Susan Booysen and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 2016-10-01 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores the student discontent a year after the start of the 2015 South African #FeesMustFall revolt #FeesMustFall, the student revolt that began in October 2015, was an uprising against lack of access to, and financial exclusion from, higher education in South Africa. More broadly, it radically questioned the socio-political dispensation resulting from the 1994 social pact between big business, the ruling elite and the liberation movement. The 2015 revolt links to national and international youth struggles of the recent past and is informed by black consciousness politics and social movements of the international left. Yet, its objectives are more complex than those of earlier struggles. The student movement has challenged the hierarchical, top-down leadership system of university management and it’s ‘double speak’ of professing to act in workers’ and students’ interests yet entrenching a regressive system for control and governance. University managements, while on one level amenable to change, have also co-opted students into their ranks to create co-responsibility for the highly bureaucratised university financial aid that stands in the way of their social revolution. This book maps the contours of student discontent a year after the start of the #FeesMustFall revolt. Student voices dissect colonialism, improper compromises by the founders of democratic South Africa, feminism, worker rights and meaningful education. In-depth assessments by prominent scholars reflect on the complexities of student activism, its impact on national and university governance, and offer provocative analyses of the power of the revolt.

#FeesMustFall and Youth Mobilisation in South Africa

Author : Musawenkosi W Ndlovu
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 135172813X
Total Pages : 165 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (517 download)

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Download or read book #FeesMustFall and Youth Mobilisation in South Africa written by Musawenkosi W Ndlovu and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2017-07-14 with total page 165 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Preface -- Introduction and rationale -- 1 The view of South African youth before #FeesMustFall -- 2 Were the 2015 student protests a revolution? -- 3 What the 2015 protests actually were and how they were possible -- 4 Ikhohlisan'ihlomile: FMF students' engagement with power and their ideological differences -- 5 Can South Africa's declining economy inspire student-led new revolution? -- 6 Youth's declining news consumption levels and ideologically divided media -- 7 Youth's polysemic interpretation of the ANC regime and the limits of the new revolution -- 8 Youths' declining participation levels in the public sphere: the constraints of new revolution -- 9 Conclusion: FMF protests will not lead to a revolution per se (at least not yet), but to wide ranging reforms -- References -- Index

Rebels and Rage

Author : Adam Habib
Publisher : Jonathan Ball Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1868428974
Total Pages : 290 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (684 download)

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Download or read book Rebels and Rage written by Adam Habib and published by Jonathan Ball Publishers. This book was released on 2019-03-01 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Adam Habib, the most prominent and outspoken university official through the recent student protests, takes a characteristically frank view of the past three years on South Africa's campuses in this new book. Habib charts the progress of the student protests that erupted on Wits University campus in late 2015 and raged for the better part of three years, drawing on his own intimate involvement and negotiation with the students, and also records university management and government responses to the events. He critically examines the student movement and individual student leaders who emerged under the banners #feesmustfall and #Rhodesmustfall, and debates how to achieve truly progressive social change in South Africa, on our campuses and off. This book is both an attempt at a historical account and a thoughtful reflection on the issues the protests kicked up, from the perspective not only of a high-ranking member of university management, but also Habib as political scientist with a background as an activist during the struggle against apartheid. Habib moves between reflecting on the events of the last three years on university campuses, and reimagining the future of South African higher education. Adam Habib, the most prominent and outspoken university official through the recent student protests, takes a characteristically frank view of the past three years on South Africa's campuses in this new book. Habib charts the progress of the student protests that erupted on Wits University campus in late 2015 and raged for the better part of three years, drawing on his own intimate involvement and negotiation with the students, and also records university management and government responses to the events. He critically examines the student movement and individual student leaders who emerged under the banners #feesmustfall and #Rhodesmustfall, and debates how to achieve truly progressive social change in South Africa, on our campuses and off. This book is both an attempt at a historical account and a thoughtful reflection on the issues the protests kicked up, from the perspective not only of a high-ranking member of university management, but also Habib as political scientist with a background as an activist during the struggle against apartheid. Habib moves between reflecting on the events of the last three years on university campuses, and reimagining the future of South African higher education.

The Staff of Legends

Author : Sandile Mdlongwa
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781520496467
Total Pages : 135 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (964 download)

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Download or read book The Staff of Legends written by Sandile Mdlongwa and published by . This book was released on 2017-01-30 with total page 135 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Revolutionary greetings, before we go deeper into our play, let us read this revolutionary letter; I wrote this letter especially to the readers, drawing my thoughts specifically from what I Learnt from the FEES MUST FALL MOVEMENT: TO THE READERS OF MY PLAY.I am not a leader, neither do I have any position in any organization. I am a man called by history to change it. I must reiterate, I am a Revolutionary, the highest form of humanity. This is the only pride I have as a poor man and I will shout that loud, to let all persons know. You will wonder why am I writing this letter. I am writing this letter to represent justice in an environment of injustice. So early I learnt in my life to rebel against every wrong and I have suffered the worst persecutions that trained me to be upright and fearless.1. EDUCATIONI must admit, I believe in FREE EDUCATION or education itself. Education is a mental weapon for human kind to survive in this world of responsibilities. An educated mind takes care of the needy body. Moreover, education is a human right not a privilege. One must attest that a human right is something that all people are born with. A privilege is given to a person by another. Since education is a human right, one who is conscious cannot deny that it is immoral and unjustified to sell education to the oppressed people who happen to be economically-deprived not by choice but by evils of history committed against them. Black people in Africa are under-resourced and under-privileged; their land was wrongfully confiscated from them. Land is the base of all economic production and it is in the hands of minorities who produce income out of it and pay for their fees. I know that the financial assistance was set to aid my people, I must clarify, financial assistance is for the minority whilst we the poor are the majority. For these Ideals and proven facts, I joined the Fees Must Fall Movement with a conscious mind and I will never regret my conscious decision.2. THE STRUGGLE OF WORKERSOn the struggle of workers, I must say that it is close to my heart. These are the mothers and fathers of a society who have suffered the worst in my eyes. They have been the victims of the racist inflammatory slurs, stereotypes and derogatory names such as 'boys', 'girls' and 'kaffirs.' One grandmother who protested after being called a 'kaffir' confessed that she was coerced to clean a certain department alone for punishment of being upright. Workers, all of them being black in UJ, wake up early in the morning, queue long queues and be cramped in a taxi arriving already tired just to make the University of Johannesburg clean. Only an imbecile cannot give credit to a person who cleans. A clean environment allows humans to carry their day-to-day duties. Without consideration of this vital role being played by workers, the money that is given to them does not equate the value they contribute. Therefore, none can dare challenge me when I say that this is exploitation. So long there is an exploitation of one person by another, it is a moral duty of the slave of the workers to commit himself to redress such evilness. I am afraid, I happen to be a slave who chant a 'fair day's salary for a fair day's work.'This book entails what FEES MUST FALL was all about, the sacrifices that were made by the leaders and how the government and universities responded.

We are No Longer at Ease

Author : Wandile Ngcaweni
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781431426782
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (267 download)

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Download or read book We are No Longer at Ease written by Wandile Ngcaweni and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: We Are No Longer at Ease is a collection of personal articles, essays, speeches and poetry mainly from voices of young people who were part of the student-led protest movement known as #FeesMustFall which began in 2015. It tells the journey of a youth that participated in a movement that redefined politics in post-apartheid South Africa and is the evidence of a 201Cborn free201D generation telling their own story and leading discourse as well as action on transforming South Africa with a foreword by Malaika wa Azania. The collection includes works by the young student leaders turned academic and public commentators such as David Maimela, Thapelo Tselapedi and Sisonke Msimang; student newspaper journalists that were covering the protests like Natasha Ndlebe; public writing commentators with aims to inform and teach the broader South African society about the aspects of the movement like Yamkela Spengane and Rofhiwa Maneta; lecturers who were assisting the students articulate and find clarity in the way they shaped and voiced their ideas such as Sabelo Ndlovu-Gatsheni and then of course others were foot soldiers on the ground leading students through the police brutality of rubber bullets and pepper spray like Mcebo Dlamini, Loverlyn Nwandeyi, Ntokozo Qwabe and Ramabina Mahapa

Epistemic Freedom in Africa

Author : Sabelo J. Ndlovu-Gatsheni
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 0429960190
Total Pages : 255 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (299 download)

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Book Synopsis Epistemic Freedom in Africa by : Sabelo J. Ndlovu-Gatsheni

Download or read book Epistemic Freedom in Africa written by Sabelo J. Ndlovu-Gatsheni and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-06-27 with total page 255 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Epistemic Freedom in Africa is about the struggle for African people to think, theorize, interpret the world and write from where they are located, unencumbered by Eurocentrism. The imperial denial of common humanity to some human beings meant that in turn their knowledges and experiences lost their value, their epistemic virtue. Now, in the twenty-first century, descendants of enslaved, displaced, colonized, and racialized peoples have entered academies across the world, proclaiming loudly that they are human beings, their lives matter and they were born into valid and legitimate knowledge systems that are capable of helping humanity to transcend the current epistemic and systemic crises. Together, they are engaging in diverse struggles for cognitive justice, fighting against the epistemic line which haunts the twenty-first century. The renowned historian and decolonial theorist Sabelo J. Ndlovu-Gatsheni offers a penetrating and well-argued case for centering Africa as a legitimate historical unit of analysis and epistemic site from which to interpret the world, whilst simultaneously making an equally strong argument for globalizing knowledge from Africa so as to attain ecologies of knowledges. This is a dual process of both deprovincializing Africa, and in turn provincializing Europe. The book highlights how the mental universe of Africa was invaded and colonized, the long-standing struggles for 'an African university', and the trajectories of contemporary decolonial movements such as Rhodes Must Fall and Fees Must Fall in South Africa. This landmark work underscores the fact that only once the problem of epistemic freedom has been addressed can Africa achieve political, cultural, economic and other freedoms. This groundbreaking new book is accessible to students and scholars across Education, History, Philosophy, Ethics, African Studies, Development Studies, Politics, International Relations, Sociology, Postcolonial Studies and the emerging field of Decolonial Studies. The Open Access versions Chapter 1 and Chapter 9, available at https://doi.org/10.4324/9780429492204 have been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 4.0 license.

Breaking a Rainbow, Building a Nation

Author : Rekgotsofetse Chikane
Publisher : Pan Macmillan South africa
ISBN 13 : 1770105913
Total Pages : 233 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (71 download)

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Download or read book Breaking a Rainbow, Building a Nation written by Rekgotsofetse Chikane and published by Pan Macmillan South africa. This book was released on 2018-10-01 with total page 233 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Breaking a Rainbow, Building a Nation is a first-hand account of the university protests that gripped South Africa between 2015 and 2017, widely better known as the #FeesMustFall. Chikane outlines the nature of student politics in the country before, during and after the emergence of #MustFall politics, exploring the political dynamics that informed and drove the student protests, and the effect that these #MustFall movements have had on the nature of youth politics in the country. Chikane looks at how the current nature of youth politics is different from previous youth upheavals that have defined South Africa, specifically due to the fact that the protests were being led by so-called coconuts, who are part of the black elite. Breaking a Rainbow, Building a Nation poses the provocative question, can coconuts be trusted with the revolution?

Research Anthology on Preparing School Administrators to Lead Quality Education Programs

Author : Management Association, Information Resources
Publisher : IGI Global
ISBN 13 : 1799834395
Total Pages : 1829 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (998 download)

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Download or read book Research Anthology on Preparing School Administrators to Lead Quality Education Programs written by Management Association, Information Resources and published by IGI Global. This book was released on 2020-07-24 with total page 1829 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The delivery of quality education to students relies heavily on the actions of an institution’s administrative staff. Effective leadership strategies allow for the continued progress of modern educational initiatives. It is crucial to investigate how effective administrators lead their organizations in challenging and difficult times and promote the accomplishments of their organization. Research Anthology on Preparing School Administrators to Lead Quality Education Programs is a vital reference source that offers theoretical and pedagogical research concerning the management of educational systems on both the national and international scale. It also explores academic administration as well as administrative effectiveness in achieving organizational goals. Highlighting a range of topics such as strategic planning, human resources, and school culture, this multi-volume book is ideally designed for educators, administrators, principals, superintendents, board members, researchers, academicians, policymakers, and students.

The Formation of Intellectual Capital and Its Ability to Transform Higher Education Institutions and the Knowledge Society

Author : Cardoso Espinosa, Edgar Oliver
Publisher : IGI Global
ISBN 13 : 1522584625
Total Pages : 312 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (225 download)

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Download or read book The Formation of Intellectual Capital and Its Ability to Transform Higher Education Institutions and the Knowledge Society written by Cardoso Espinosa, Edgar Oliver and published by IGI Global. This book was released on 2019-06-28 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The knowledge society arises from the combination of four interdependent elements: the production of knowledge through research, its transmission through education, its dissemination through information and communication technologies, and its exploitation through innovation. For this reason, higher education institutions (HEIs) are the main component of the formation of intellectual capital because they are the key element of the knowledge society, so it is necessary that they continue to be the main source of the necessary skills that allow the increase of economic competitiveness, sustainability, and citizen welfare within the framework of quality education and equity. The Formation of Intellectual Capital and Its Ability to Transform Higher Education Institutions and the Knowledge Society is an essential research publication that provides systemic research on the formation of intellectual capital in higher education and its impact on the knowledge society. Highlighting topics such as educational programs, management strategy, and educational studies, this book is meant for educators, educational technologists, students, researchers, professionals, and administrators.

Challenging Authority

Author : Frances Fax Piven
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 0742563405
Total Pages : 205 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (425 download)

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Download or read book Challenging Authority written by Frances Fax Piven and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2008-07-11 with total page 205 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Argues that ordinary people exercise extraordinary political courage and power in American politics when, frustrated by politics as usual, they rise up in anger and hope, and defy the authorities and the status quo rules that ordinarily govern their daily lives. By doing so, they disrupt the workings of important institutions and become a force in American politics. Drawing on critical episodes in U.S. history, Piven shows that it is in fact precisely at those seismic moments when people act outside of political norms that they become empowered to their full democratic potential.

Social Media and Everyday Life in South Africa

Author : Tanja E Bosch
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000225771
Total Pages : 195 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (2 download)

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Download or read book Social Media and Everyday Life in South Africa written by Tanja E Bosch and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-11-22 with total page 195 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores how social media is used in South Africa, through a range of case studies exploring various social networking sites and applications. This volume explores how, over the past decade, social media platforms have deeply penetrated the fabric of everyday life. The author considers South Africans’ use of wearable tech and use of online health and sports tracking systems via mobile phones within the broader context of the digital data economy. The author also focuses on the dating app Tinder, to show how people negotiate and redefine intimacy through the practice of online dating via strategic performances in pursuit of love, sex and intimacy. The book concludes with the use of Facebook and Twitter for social activism (e.g. Fees Must Fall), as well as networked community building as in the case of the #imstaying movement. This book will be of interest to social media academics and students, as well as anyone interested in social media, politics and cultural life in South Africa.

Rhodes Must Fall

Author : Brian Kwoba
Publisher : Zed Books Ltd.
ISBN 13 : 1786993929
Total Pages : 317 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (869 download)

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Download or read book Rhodes Must Fall written by Brian Kwoba and published by Zed Books Ltd.. This book was released on 2018-08-15 with total page 317 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When students at Oxford University called for a statue of Cecil Rhodes to be removed, following similar calls by students in Cape Town, the significance of these protests was felt across continents. This was not simply about tearing down an outward symbol of British imperialism – a monument glorifying a colonial conqueror – but about confronting the toxic inheritance of the past, and challenging the continued underrepresentation of people of colour at universities. And it went to the very heart of the pernicious influence of colonialism in education today. Written by key members of the movement in Oxford, Rhodes Must Fall is the story of that campaign. Showing the crucial importance of both intersectionality and solidarity with sister movements in South Africa and beyond, this book shows what it means to boldly challenge the racism rooted deeply at the very heart of empire.

Psychosocial Pathways Towards Reinventing the South African University

Author : Sabrina Liccardo
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 303049036X
Total Pages : 567 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (34 download)

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Download or read book Psychosocial Pathways Towards Reinventing the South African University written by Sabrina Liccardo and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2020-11-02 with total page 567 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book proposes a conceptual-empirical framework for exploring forms of continuity and change along psychosocial pathways in South African universities. It illustrates how the psychosocial pathways are grounded in the symbolic narratives and knowledges of young scientists, engineers and architects - all interlocutors in the research from which this book is based. Alala, Mamoratwa, Welile, Odirile, Kaiya, Amirah, Takalani, Nosakhele, Naila, Ambani, Khanyisile, Itumeleng, Ethwasa and Kgnaya provide collective standpoints in the multiplicities within and between the lived lives and told stories of young Black South African women in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) fields. In doing so, this compelling work advances possibilities for demythologising scientific endeavour as a white male achievement and shifting knowledge communities across gendered, racialised, class and national divides. This book presents an innovative narrative methodology, utilising the myth of the Minotaur to examine the state of the university at the heart of the hierarchical labyrinth in “post”-apartheid South Africa. Throughout the work the author wrestles with and self-reflexively highlights her own positionality as a white, middle-class South African woman to examine how this affects the production of this research in ways which serve to preserve the colonial knowledge system. With the rise of the Rhodes Must Fall and Fees Must Fall student movement in South Africa, demanding for the fall of institutionalised racial hierarchies, the author uses the cover image of narrative formations in the spirit of exploration to think with and through undulating networked forms that could possibly forge new psychosocial pathways towards decolonising and reinventing South African universities. This work offers a unique conceptual and methodological resource for students and scholars of psychosocial and narrative theory, as well as those who are concerned about the politics of higher education, both in South Africa and in other contexts around the world.

The Contested Idea of South Africa

Author : Sabelo J. Ndlovu-Gatsheni
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000476936
Total Pages : 300 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (4 download)

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Download or read book The Contested Idea of South Africa written by Sabelo J. Ndlovu-Gatsheni and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-11-29 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book reflects on the complex and contested idea of South Africa, drawing on a wide range of disciplinary perspectives. Ever since the delineation of South Africa as a country, the many diverse groups of people contained within its borders have struggled to translate a mere geographical description into the identity of a people. Today the new struggles ‘for South Africa’ and ‘to become South African’ are inextricably intertwined with complex challenges of transformation, xenophobia, claims of reverse racism, social justice, economic justice, service delivery, and the resurgent decolonization struggles reverberating inside the universities. This book covers the genealogy of the idea of South Africa, exploring how the country has been conceived of by a broad group of actors, including the British, Afrikaners, diverse African nationalist traditions, and new formations such as the Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF), Black First Land First (BLF), and student formations (Rhodes Must Fall & Fees Must Fall). Over the course of the book, a broad range of themes are covered, including identity formation, modernity, race, ethnicity, indigeneity, autochthony, land, gender, intellectual traditions, poetics of South Africanness, language, popular culture, truth and reconciliation, and national development planning. Concluding with important reflections on how a colonial imaginary can be changed into a free and inclusive postcolonial nation-state, this book will be an important read for Africanist researchers from across the humanities and social sciences.

As by Fire

Author : Jonathan D. Jansen
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780624080305
Total Pages : 285 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (83 download)

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Download or read book As by Fire written by Jonathan D. Jansen and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page 285 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "What are the real roots of the student protests of 2015 and 2016? Is it actually about fees? Why did so many protests turn violent? Where is the government while the buildings burn, and do the students know how to end the protests? Former Free State University Vice-Chancellor Jonathan Jansen delves into the unprecedented disruption of universities that caught South Africa by surprise. In frank interviews with eleven of the VCs most affected, he examines the forces at work, why the protests escalate into chaos, and what is driving - and exasperating - our youth. This urgent and necessary book gives us an insider view of the crisis, tells us why the conflict will not go away and what it means for the future of our universities."--Back cover.

Blues for the White Man

Author : Fred de Vries
Publisher : Penguin Random House South Africa
ISBN 13 : 1776096010
Total Pages : 335 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (76 download)

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Download or read book Blues for the White Man written by Fred de Vries and published by Penguin Random House South Africa. This book was released on 2021-05-04 with total page 335 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It started with a question about the blues: what makes the music of the downtrodden black man so alluring to white middle-class ears? And that’s where it gets interesting. Because blues is more than a musical genre: it’s a cultural phenomenon that spans several centuries on both sides of the Atlantic, from slavery to Black Lives Matter, from Jan van Riebeeck to Fees Must Fall, from Robert Johnson to Abdullah Ibrahim. In Blues for the White Man, Fred de Vries looks for answers in America’s Deep South, drawing historical parallels with South Africa’s experience of colonialism, slavery, racism, civil war, segrega¬tion and protest. Travelling to Atlanta, Memphis, Nashville, New Orleans and the Mississippi Delta, De Vries speaks to musicians, Black Lives Matter activists and Trump supporters. He continues the conversation in South Africa, interviewing student protesters, white farmers and political thought-leaders to develop an understanding of white supremacy and black anger, white fear and black pain. A fascinating, insightful journey through time and space, Blues for the White Man is a cele¬bration of multiculturalism and a plea for white people to do some ‘second line dancing’ for a change.

University on the Border

Author : Lis Lange
Publisher : African Sun Media
ISBN 13 : 1991201346
Total Pages : 210 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (912 download)

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Download or read book University on the Border written by Lis Lange and published by African Sun Media. This book was released on 2021-08-27 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.