1st Edition

Decolonisation after Democracy Rethinking the Research and Teaching of Political Science in South Africa

Edited By Laurence Piper Copyright 2019
156 Pages
by Routledge

156 Pages
by Routledge

156 Pages
by Routledge

Decolonisation after Democracy addresses the provocative idea that we need to rid higher education of lingering forms of colonial knowledge. This matters because in the colonial era much knowledge was put to the service of subjugating indigenous peoples, and the assumptions from this era may linger into the present. Examples of deep-rooted and ‘foundational’ forms of knowledge that carry... Read more

Introduction  1. #EndRapeCulture Campaign in South Africa: Resisting Sexual Violence Through Protest and the Politics of Experience  2. Decolonising International Relations and Its Theory: A Critical Conceptual Meditation  3. Thinking the State from Africa: Political Theory, Eurocentrism and Concrete Politics  4. Confronting the Colonial Library: Teaching Political Studies Amidst Calls for a Decolonised Curriculum  5. What Would the Decolonisation of a Political Science Curriculum Entail? Lessons to be Learnt From the East African Experience at the Federal University of East Africa  6. The Need for a New Language? How Historically Disadvantaged Institutions Grapple with the Effects of Labelling in Higher Education: The Case of the University of the Western Cape  7. Decolonising Clientelism: ‘Re-centring’ Analyses of Local State–Society Relations in South Africa  8. On Decolonisation and Revolution: A Kristevan Reading on the Hashtags Student Movements and Fallism  9. Land Redistribution in South Africa: Towards Decolonisation or Recolonisation?

Biography

Laurence Piper is Professor of Political Science at the University of the Western Cape, South Africa, and the University West, Sweden. His research focus is on urban politics in the Global South.