Decolonising the Neoliberal University: Law, Psychoanalysis and the Politics of Student Protest

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Taking the postcolonial – or, more specifically, the post-apartheid – university as its focus, the book takes the violence and the trauma of the global neoliberal hegemony as its central point of reference. Following a primarily psychoanalytic line of enquiry, it engages a range of disciplines – law, philosophy, literature, gender studies, cultural studies and political economy – in order better to understand the conditions of possibility of an emancipatory, or decolonised, higher education. And this in the context of both the inter-generational transmission of the trauma of colonialism, on the one hand, and, on the other, the trauma of neoliberal subjectivity in the postcolonial university. Oriented around an important lecture by Jacqueline Rose, the volume contains contributions from world-renowned authors, such as Judith Butler and Achille Mbembe, as well as numerous legal and other theorists who share their concern with interrogating the contemporary crisis in higher education. This truly interdisciplinary collection will appeal to a wide range of readers right across the humanities, but especially those with substantial interests in the contemporary state of the university, as well as those with theoretical interests in postcolonialism, psychoanalysis, gender studies, cultural studies, jurisprudence and law.
Copyright:
2021

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Book Size:
174 Pages
ISBN-13:
9781000427561
Related ISBNs:
9780367903725, 9781032056548, 9781003198581
Publisher:
Taylor and Francis
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Copyrighted By:
selection and editorial matter, Jaco-Barnard Naude
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No
Language:
English
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Categories:
History, Nonfiction, Psychology, Education, Law, Legal Issues and Ethics, Philosophy, Politics and Government, Sociology
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This is a copyrighted book.
Edited by:
Jaco Barnard-Naude

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