Predicaments of Knowledge : Decolonisation and Deracialisation in Universities / Suren Pillay.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Pillay, Suren, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Decolonization--South Africa.

Decolonization.

Education, Higher--Social aspects--South Africa.

Education, Higher.

Racial justice--South Africa.

Racial justice.

Social justice--South Africa.

Social justice.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (204 pages)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Johannesburg, South Africa : Wits University Press, [2024]

Summary:

Reflections on race, language, colonial, postcolonial and decolonial knowledge projects that explore the pitfalls and possibilities that face South African universities and a post-apartheid generation inventing the future of knowledge.

Contents:

Cover

Half-title

Title Page

Copyright

Dedication

Contents

Foreword

Acknowledgements

Acronyms and Abbreviations

Introduction. The University, Then and Now

Chapter 1. Anticolonial Nationalism and Worldliness: Remaking the Humanities after Apartheid

Chapter 2: Between Transformation, Deracialisation and Decolonisation

Chapter 3: Provincialising Decolonial Theory: Comparing the Legacies of Colonialism in Africa and Latin America

Chapter 4: Conquests, Contracts and Modernity: Political Theory and Teaching the State in Africa

Chapter 5: Justice and the Historically Disadvantaged

Chapter 6: Decolonising the History of Scientific Ways of Knowing

Conclusion

Bibliography

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781776149087

1776149084