Epistemic Justice and the Postcolonial University / edited by Amrita Pande.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Pande, Amrita, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Universities and colleges--South Africa--Administration.

Universities and colleges.

Social justice and education--South Africa.

Social justice and education.

Settler colonialism--South Africa.

Settler colonialism.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (266 pages)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Johannesburg, South Africa : Wits University Press, [2023]

Summary:

This book addresses urgent current debates on decolonisation by offering reimagined teaching and learning interventions for obtaining greater epistemic justice in the contemporary postcolonial university.

Contents:

Cover

Title

Copyright

Contents

List of Figures and Tables

Acknowledgements

Abbreviations and Acronyms

Introduction: Epistemic Justice and the University of Cape Town: Thinking Across Disciplines

Part I: Aesthetics, Politics and Languages

1. Ukuhamba Ukubona/Travelling to Know: Mobility as Counter-Curriculum Across Africa

2. Publics, Politics, Place and Pedagogy in Urban Studies

3. Imagining Southern Cities: Experiments in an Interdisciplinary Pedagogical Space

4. Invoking Names: Finding Black Women's Lost Narratives in the Classroom

Part II: Justice, Curriculum and the Classroom

5. Decolonising Psychology in Africa: The Curriculum as Weapon

6. The Shards Haven't Settled: Contesting Hierarchies of (Teaching) History

7. Heavy-Handed Policing: Teaching Law and Practice to LLB Students in South Africa

Part III: Contested Histories and Ethical Spaces

8. African Studies at UCT: An Interview with Lungisile Ntsebeza

9. The African Gender Institute: A Journey of Placemaking

10. The Ethic of Reconciliation and a New Curriculum

Afterword

Contributors

Index.

Notes:

Includes index.

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Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-77614-786-3

OCLC:

1392346305