Predicaments of Knowledge (häftad)
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Häftad (Trade paperback)
Språk
Engelska
Antal sidor
216
Utgivningsdatum
2024-09-01
Förlag
Wits University Press
Dimensioner
229 x 152 x 13 mm
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327 g
ISBN
9781776149056

Predicaments of Knowledge

Decolonisation and Deracialisation in Universities

av Suren Pillay
Häftad,  Engelska, 2024-09-01
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Predicaments of Knowledge explores the difficult questions South African universities face after apartheid: Is there a difference between Africanising a university and decolonising a university? What about differences between deracialising and decolonising the curricula taught at universities across disciplines? Through a range of reflections on race, language, colonial, postcolonial and decolonial knowledge projects from Africa and Latin America, this book explores the pitfalls and possibilities that face a post-apartheid generation inventing the future of knowledge. The distinctions between Africanisation, decolonisation and deracialisation are often conflated in the political demands put to universities. Suren Pillay emphasises all three as important but distinct imperatives. If an intervention is undertaken with the aim of decolonising the university while actually addressing deracialisation, it can undermine the effort to decolonise. Similarly, if an initiative to Africanise the university does not address decolonisation, both processes can be undermined. Drawing on more than two and a half decades of the author's participation in these debates, these essays aim to intervene in and elucidate questions and predicaments, rather than offering blue prints; they are dialogical in spirit even when polemical in tone. In conversation with existing continental African and Latin American experiences, they offer incisive reflections on current South African debates.
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Suren Pillay is the A C Jordan Chair and Director of the Centre for African Studies at the University of Cape Town.

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