Fees Must Fall : Student Revolt, Decolonisation and Governance in South Africa

Susan Booysen

ISBN 10: 1868149854 / ISBN 13: 9781868149858

Verlag: Wits University Press, 2016

Beschreibung

nach der Bestellung gedruckt Neuware - Printed after ordering - This book explores the student discontent a year after the start of the 2015 South African #FeesMustFall revolt #FeesMustFall, the student revolt that began in October 2015, was an uprising against lack of access to, and financial exclusion from, higher education in South Africa. More broadly, it radically questioned the socio-political dispensation resulting from the 1994 social pact between big business, the ruling elite and the liberation movement. The 2015 revolt links to national and international youth struggles of the recent past and is informed by black consciousness politics and social movements of the international left. Yet, its objectives are more complex than those of earlier struggles. The student movement has challenged the hierarchical, top-down leadership system of university management and it's 'double speak' of professing to act in workers' and students' interests yet entrenching a regressive system for control and governance. University managements, while on one level amenable to change, have also co-opted students into their ranks to create co-responsibility for the highly bureaucratised university financial aid that stands in the way of their social revolution. This book maps the contours of student discontent a year after the start of the #FeesMustFall revolt. Student voices dissect colonialism, improper compromises by the founders of democratic South Africa, feminism, worker rights and meaningful education. In-depth assessments by prominent scholars reflect on the complexities of student activism, its impact on national and university governance, and offer provocative analyses of the power of the revolt.

Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 9781868149858

Bibliografische Details

• Titel: Fees Must Fall : Student Revolt, Decolonisation and Governance in South Africa
• Verlag: Wits University Press
• Erscheinungsjahr: 2016
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN-10: 1868149854
• ISBN-13: 9781868149858
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Zustand: Neu
• Abmessungen: 229B x 152 H x 25 T Millimeter Breite: 229 mm, Höhe: 152 mm, Tiefe: 25 mm
• Gewicht: 408 Gramm

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Inhaltsangabe

This book explores the student discontent a year after the start of the 2015 South African #FeesMustFall revolt
#FeesMustFall, the student revolt that began in October 2015, was an uprising against lack of access to, and financial exclusion from, higher education in South Africa. More broadly, it radically questioned the socio-political dispensation resulting from the 1994 social pact between big business, the ruling elite and the liberation movement. The 2015 revolt links to national and international youth struggles of the recent past and is informed by black consciousness politics and social movements of the international left. Yet, its objectives are more complex than those of earlier struggles. The student movement has challenged the hierarchical, top-down leadership system of university management and it's 'double speak' of professing to act in workers' and students' interests yet entrenching a regressive system for control and governance. University managements, while on one level amenable to change, have also co-opted students into their ranks to create co-responsibility for the highly bureaucratised university financial aid that stands in the way of their social revolution. This book maps the contours of student discontent a year after the start of the #FeesMustFall revolt. Student voices dissect colonialism, improper compromises by the founders of democratic South Africa, feminism, worker rights and meaningful education. In-depth assessments by prominent scholars reflect on the complexities of student activism, its impact on national and university governance, and offer provocative analyses of the power of the revolt.

Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Susan Booysen is Professor at the Wits School of Governance. She is the author of Dominance and Decline: The ANC in the Time of Zuma(Wits University Press: 2015) and The African National Congress and theRegeneration of Political Power (Wits University Press: 2011).