In order for decolonisation to avoid becoming yet another orthodoxy, this book argues that it is necessary to recognise the neoliberal ideologies and imperatives that drive so much work in universities in both the Global Norths and Global Souths, and to understand the enmeshment (both historical and ongoing) of universities in colonial practices. The chapters interrogate both these issues and the terms in which they are usually critiqued in order to identify the cracks and fissures within institutions that may enable decolonisation to be leveraged as a praxis and a means of radical change. The chapters explore a range of issues across Higher Education including reparations, allyship, soft power, academic publishing and the politics of race within the university; together they represent an argument for the necessity of continually rethinking and re-making the theories, methods and assumptions of decolonisation.
Table of Content
Contributors
André Keet: Foreword
Sinfree Makoni and Chanel van der Merwe: Introduction: Decolonial Options in Higher Education: Cracks and Fissures
1. Horace G. Campbell: Reparations and the University in the 21st Century
2. Jonathan Jansen: How Institutions Defang Radical Curriculum Ideas: The Fate of Decolonization in South African Universities
3. Tshepo Madlingozi: Decoloniality as the Forging of Communities of Critical Consciousness or Beloved Communities
4. Pedro Mzileni, Sinfree Makoni and Chanel van der Merwe: Interlude: A Conversation with Dr Pedro Mzileni
5. Shirley Anne Tate: The Impossibility of Black–White Feminist Allyship: A Summary
6. Raewyn Connell: The Good University
7. Kenneth King: China and India’s Higher Education Cooperation with Africa: Cultural Diplomacy and Soft Power
8. Diana Jeater: Imperial Standards in African Publishing
9. Adam Habib: Structural Racism, Social Change and the Politics of Race in Universities in the United Kingdom
Cécile B. Vigouroux: Epilogue
Index
About the author
Chanel van der Merwe is Lecturer in linguistics and applied linguistics at Nelson Mandela University, and a doctoral candidate at University of Cape Town, South Africa. Her research interests include the African university, language policy, multilingualism, feminist and southern epistemologies. She is an organizing team member of the Global Virtual Forum hosted by the African Studies Centre at Penn State University under the leadership of Professor Sinfree Makoni.
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