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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Table of contents
- CONTENTS
- Book Series
- Author Biographies
- Introduction: #MustFall - Aporia, doubt and possibility on the border
- 1. University on the Border: Crisis of authority
- 2. Gatherings of Academic Crowds as World-Historical Events: On the passage of a few students through brief moments in time
- 3. #MustFallâTheEvent: Rights, student activism and the transformation of South African universities
- 4. Unequal Egalitarians: The root of seeing the few as the many
- 5. DĂ©colonisation Destituante
- 6. The Decolonisation of Myself
- 7. Precarious Authority and the Future of the University