Naming the Moment
This essay introduces and frames a collection of essays speaking into a particularly burning and troubling period in South African history. The slow economic decline over a period of roughly ten years have now accelerated into a two year-long running student protest over high costs of university edu...
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| Type de support: | Électronique Article |
| Langue: | Anglais |
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Brill
2016
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| Dans: |
Religion & theology
Année: 2016, Volume: 23, Numéro: 3/4, Pages: 237-273 |
| RelBib Classification: | CH Christianisme et société FB Formation théologique KAJ Époque contemporaine KBN Afrique subsaharienne NCC Éthique sociale ZC Politique en général |
| Sujets non-standardisés: | B
state capture
student protests
#ScienceMustFall
decoloniality
postcolonialism
empire
neoliberal financial capitalism
religious education
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| Résumé: | This essay introduces and frames a collection of essays speaking into a particularly burning and troubling period in South African history. The slow economic decline over a period of roughly ten years have now accelerated into a two year-long running student protest over high costs of university education. The protesters themselves, and commentary on the protest movement, link the protests to the failure of the promises of the 1994 compromise that saw the inauguration of the new South Africa. At the same time, the protests also pick up on another exclusion, i.e., the vestiges of colonial knowledge regimes and cultural alienation. In the essays here, issues are address that speak into this situation from various perspectives, namely, the agency of African in defining their own history, the authority and sovereignty to interpret the context, and the role of religion in education to construct social identity. |
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| ISSN: | 1574-3012 |
| Contient: | In: Religion & theology
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1163/15743012-02303009 |