Being at Home
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Being at Home

Race, Institutional Culture and Transformation at South African Higher Education Institutions

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Being at Home

Race, Institutional Culture and Transformation at South African Higher Education Institutions

About this book

Being at Home stimulates careful conversation about some of the most pressing issues facing higher education institutions in South Africa today – race, transformation and institutional culture. While there are many reasons to be despondent about the current state of affairs in the South African tertiary sector, this collection is intended as an invitation for the reader to see these problems as opportunities for rethinking the very idea of what it is to be a university in contemporary South Africa. It is also, more generally, an invitation for us to think about what it is that the intellectual project should ultimately be about, and to question certain prevalent trends that affect – or, perhaps, infect – the current global academic system. This book will be of interest to all those who are concerned about the state of the contemporary university, both in South Africa and beyond.

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Table of contents

  1. Contents
  2. Acknowledgements
  3. Introduction
  4. PART I: THE BASIC QUESTIONS
  5. 1 ‘Tell Us a New Story’: A Proposal for the Transformatory Potential of Collective Memory Projects
  6. 2 ‘Feeling at Home’: Institutional Culture and the Idea of a University
  7. 3 White Privilege and Institutional Culture at South African Higher Education Institutions
  8. PART II: RHODES UNIVERSITY: A CASE STUDY
  9. 4 Making Room for the Unexpected: The University and the Ethical Imperative of Unconditional Hospitality
  10. 5 The Violence beneath the Veil of Politeness: Reflections on Race and Power in the Academy
  11. 6 What about the Queers? The Institutional Culture of Heteronormativity and Its Implications for Queer Staff and Students
  12. 7 Employing Safe Bets: Reflections on Attracting, Developing and Retaining the Next Generation of Academics
  13. PART III: PATHWAYS
  14. 8 Race and Justice in Higher Education: Some Global Challenges, with Attention to the South African Context
  15. 9 Thinking Outside the Ivory Tower: Towards a Radical Humanities in South Africa
  16. 10 Towards a Decolonial Analytic Philosophy: Institutional Corruption and Epistemic Culture
  17. 11 The Countercultural University
  18. 12 Africanising Institutional Culture: What is Possible and Plausible
  19. 13 Instrumentalisation in Universities and the Creative Potential of Race
  20. Postscript
  21. Contributors
  22. Index