Working in a South African Politics Department During the 1980s

Recollections

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ID6214080
AutoresTom Lodge (0000-0003-0857-7341)
Año2013
Volumen40
Número3
Páginas425-445
Fecha de publicación2013-12-01
Open AccessNo
TipoARTICLE
RevistaPolitikon (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0258-9346 • E-ISSN: 1470-1014
EditorialInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/02589346.2013.856570
OpenAlexW2088968051
IdiomaEN
Referencias citadas17

This memoir opens with a discussion of the author's recruitment as a junior lecturer in African government at Wits in 1978, exploring his motivations in leaving Britain to work in South Africa. Politics was taught in ways at Wits that were distinctive for their theoretical orientation and empirical content as one of the major concerns was to consider how people without power act politically. Teaching was shaped by the wider background of national insurgent politics in which many students arrived at Wits with a deep distrust of pedagogic authority. In other ways academic work was shaped by this politics and the second part of this article explores the author's engagement as an expert witness working for defence lawyers in political trials. A concluding section addresses the degree to which these experiences were typical or exceptional at South African universities during the decade

Distrust · Government (linguistics · Media studies · Memoir · Political science · Politics · Power (physics · Sociology · Witness · Work (physics · Engineering · Gender Studies · Historical and Contemporary Political Dynamics · Law · Political Conflict and Governance · Public Administration · South African History and Culture

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