University on the Border

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• Publisher: Sun Press
• eBook ISBN:
  9781991201355
• Edition: 0

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.

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. #MustFall–TheEvent: Rights, student activism and the transformation of South African universities
• 4. Unequal Egalitarians: The root of seeing the few as the many
• 5. Décolonisation Destituante
• 6. The Decolonisation of Myself
• 7. Precarious Authority and the Future of the University