Uprooting University Apartheid in South Africa: From Liberalism to Decolonization Contributor(s): Barnes, Teresa (Author) |
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ISBN: 0367786982 ISBN-13: 9780367786984 Publisher: Routledge OUR PRICE: $50.30 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: March 2021 |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Education | Administration - Higher - History | Africa - South - Republic Of South Africa - Social Science | Regional Studies |
Physical Information: 0.5" H x 6.1" W x 9.2" (0.60 lbs) 173 pages |
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Publisher Description: South Africa continues to be an object of fascination for people everywhere interested in social justice issues, postcolonial studies and critical race theory as manifested by the enormous worldwide attention given to the #RhodesMustFall movement. In this book, Teresa Barnes examines universities' complex positioning in the apartheid era and argues that tracing the institutional legacies left by pro-apartheid intellectuals are crucial to understanding the fight to transform South African higher education. A work of interpretive social history, this book investigates three historical dynamics in the relationship between the apartheid system and South African higher education. First, it explores how the legitimacy of apartheid was historically reproduced in public higher education. Second, it looks at ways that academics maneuvered through and influenced national and international discourses of political freedom and legitimacy. Third, it explores how and where stubborn tendrils of apartheid-era knowledge production practices survived into and have been combatted during the democratic era in South African universities. |