Becoming UWC : reflections, pathways and unmaking apartheid's legacy / edited by Premesh Lalu and Noëleen Murray.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Lalu, Premesh.

Murray, Noëleen, 1968-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

University of the Western Cape--History.

University of the Western Cape.

Universities and colleges--South Africa--History.

Universities and colleges.

History.

South Africa--Race relations.

South Africa.

Race relations.

Physical Description:

191 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

Other Title:

Becoming the University of the Western Cape.

Place of Publication:

Bellville, Cape Town : Centre for Humanities Research, University of the Western Cape, [2012?]

Summary:

Offers ways to think about the ideas that define UWC, about its design, architecture and its textures, and about its creativity. It also invites the revisitation (with a critical mind) some of the foundational narratives that guided the university through South Africa's turbulent 1970s and 1980s and weaves together a history and poetics of the institution, and opens the space of the institution to an ongoing search for what knowledge means in the aftermath of a violent and destructive past. But mostly, this book invites us to think ahead, beyond the constraints of apartheid, towards an elaboration of a concept of deracialised knowledge that has consequences for the very idea of the university in our world.

Notes:

Includes bibliographies.

ISBN:

9781868087273

1868087271

OCLC:

794372524