University on the Border: Crisis of authority and precarity
Lis Lange · Vasu Reddy · Siseko H. Kumalo
Aug 2021 · On Higher Education Transformation Book 3 · African Sun Media
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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.
About the author
Lis Lange [ORCid: 0000-0002-2832-2891] is Associate Professor and currently Deputy Vice-Chancellor: Teaching and Learning at the University of Cape Town. She holds a PhD in History from the University of the Witwatersrand.
Vasu Reddy [ORCid: 0000-0002- 6004-2320] is Professor of Sociology and Dean of the Faculty of Humanities, University of Pretoria.
Siseko H. Kumalo [ORCid: 0000-0002-6591-5995] is a PhD candidate working in the area of Political Philosophy, with a specific focus on belonging and national identity in South Africa. He is a Harvard South African Fellowship recipient (2022‑2023 academic year) and holds a Master of Arts (cum laude) in Political Philosophy from the University of Pretoria’s Department of Political Sciences.
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