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Abstract
This paper reflects on a collaborative study which explored academic citizenry in the post-colonial contexts of South Africa and India. We conducted a mixed-method study of academics’ experiences of agency, positioning and participation within universities, to comprehend the conditions of possibility for their shaping of the trans/formation of higher education. While participants’ narratives revealed heterogeneous experiences and understandings, from passivity to ignorance and activism, what was disconcerting was what emerged about the larger conditions of their formation as citizens within boundaries and borderlands of the academy. Imaginaries to effect change seemed dormant or suppressed in India, and battle fatigued in South Africa. As authors, we reflection on how this project made visible the intractable problematics of our ‘work’ within Higher Education Studies, Women’s Studies and Academic Development, and the related im-possibility for decolonising the hidden meso-curriculum.
Original language | English |
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Number of pages | 11 |
Publication status | Accepted - 01 Nov 2020 |
Event | Africa knows! It’s time to decolonise our minds’ - Duration: 01 Nov 2020 → 01 Dec 2020 |
Conference
Conference | Africa knows! It’s time to decolonise our minds’ |
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Period | 01/11/2020 → 01/12/2020 |
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The challenges of social justice in and of higher education (Public talk)
Dina Belluigi (Keynote speaker)
27 Jan 2020Activity: Talk or presentation types › Public lecture/debate/seminar
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Jadavpur University
Dina Belluigi (Visiting lecturer)
17 Jan 2020 → 17 Feb 2020Activity: Visiting an external institution types › Research and Teaching at External Organisation
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Grace Idahosa
Dina Belluigi (Host)
21 Oct 2019 → 21 Oct 2020Activity: Hosting a visitor types › Hosting an academic visitor