Decolonisation as democratisation global insights into the South African experience
PUBLICATION YEAR: 2021
TITLE AUTHOR(S): S.H.Kumalo
KEYWORDS: DEMOCRACY, HISTORY, POLITICS
DEPARTMENT: Deputy CEO: Research (DCEO_R), Deputy CEO: Research (ERKC), Deputy CEO: Research (CGI)
Web link: https://www.hsrcpress.ac.za/books/decolonisation-as-democratisation
Print: HSRC Library: shelf number 12018
HANDLE: 20.500.11910/16064
URI: http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11910/16064
TITLE AUTHOR(S): S.H.Kumalo
KEYWORDS: DEMOCRACY, HISTORY, POLITICS
DEPARTMENT: Deputy CEO: Research (DCEO_R), Deputy CEO: Research (ERKC), Deputy CEO: Research (CGI)
Web link: https://www.hsrcpress.ac.za/books/decolonisation-as-democratisation
Print: HSRC Library: shelf number 12018
HANDLE: 20.500.11910/16064
URI: http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11910/16064
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Abstract
Decolonisation as democratisation considers three factors that define the debate in South Africa on the decolonisation of the academy: educational aspiration, competing interests and political contestation. The book explores an academic system that attempts to serve two masters, the first being the historical beneficiaries of the academy (i.e. whiteness) and the second being those who pin their hopes on the system in order to escape abjection (i.e. blackness or indigeneity). The book highlights how the recent thrust of decoloniality protects the ideal of academic freedom and presents an argument that this ideal should not be used to protect the interests of the historical beneficiaries.-
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