The Plastic University: Knowledge, Disciplines and Decolonial 'Circulations'

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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