- Title
- The Plastic University: Knowledge, Disciplines and Decolonial 'Circulations'
- Creator
- Keet, Andre
- Subject
- Critical pedagogy
- Subject
- Transformative learning
- Subject
- f-sa
- Type
- text
- Type
- Lectures
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/10948/21077
- Identifier
- vital:29436
- Description
- The university is as plastic as the social figure of ‘Mandela’ after whom it is named. It is as plastic as the globe and its humanity in whose name it exists. And, it is as plastic as the human subject that is ‘perpetually called on to reconfigure itself in relation to the artefacts of the age’, as Mbembe2 argues in Critique of Black Reason. The very nature of addressing, of writing … of inaugurating … oneself, through an address is an act of reconfiguration, of responding to an artefact of the university and the professoriate. It is, when all is said and done, a performance, a performative act: declaring so and so a professor of this or that status, authorizing ‘it’ to utter something with some kind of formative force.
- Format
- 34 pages
- Publisher
- Nelson Mandela University
- Publisher
- Faculty of Education
- Language
- English
- Relation
- Inaugural lectures
- Relation
- Inaugural lectures 2018
- Rights
- Nelson Mandela University
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