Cyrill Walters
Biographic Data
| ID | 6380452 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Cyrill Walters |
| GIVEN NAMES | Cyrill |
| FAMILY NAME | Walters |
| SIGNATURE | WALTERS C |
| AFFILIATIONS | Stellenbosch University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-0003-9699 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 7 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 6 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 7 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Care and academic work in a pandemic lockdown
The lack of women in leadership across higher education has been problematised in the literature. Often, contemporary discourses promote “fixing the women” as a solution. Consequently, interventions aimed at helping women break through “the glass ceiling” abound. We argue that the gendered power relations at play in universities cause entrenched inequalities to remain in place, regardless of measures implemented for and by women. This article rep…
The Decolonization of Knowledge
In 2015, students at the University of Cape Town used the slogan #RhodesMustFall to demand that a monument of Cecil John Rhodes, the empire builder of British South Africa, be removed from the university campus. Soon students at Oxford University called for the removal of a statue of Rhodes from Oriel College. The radical idea of decolonization at the forefront of these student protests continues to be a key element in South African educational i…
Emotional Wellbeing
After the World Health Organization declared COVID-19 a pandemic on 11 March 2020, countries around the world responded with state-mandated lockdowns. Emerging data on the adverse psychological impact of the lockdown shows that women as a whole are among the most vulnerable groups. This study explores the specific stressors manifesting for women academics during lockdown and their toll on emotional wellbeing. A qualitative interpretive analysis o…
A Troubled Body of Knowledge
This article examines the durability of racial science in the field of anatomy at one of South Africa’s oldest universities and its resonance with race essentialist research in other national and transnational contexts. We present a critical assessment of more than 70 published and unpublished papers in anatomy through the lens of the politics of knowledge; in this perspective, scientific knowledge is viewed as socially constructed, value-laden, …
The Uptake of Decolonization
This chapter presents the exemplary curricula of five academics whose work reflects some of the key ideas in decolonization: Even if some of them are reluctant to use the term itself as an adequate descriptor for their efforts at transforming knowledge at their universities. The disciplines in focus are political science (politics), philosophy, psychology, media studies, and the visual arts. A key finding is that these innovations existed in inst…
The complexity of leadership in South African universities
The South African campus protests of 2015–17 in demand of decolonisation and free tertiary education presaged similar demonstrations on campuses throughout the English-speaking world and revealed the dilemmas of university leadership under conditions of sustained crisis. This research examines the typology of leadership exercised by senior administrators in South African higher education in the period just prior to these events, when the tensions…
Academic guilt”
The complexity of leadership in South African universities
The South African campus protests of 2015–17 in demand of decolonisation and free tertiary education presaged similar demonstrations on campuses throughout the English-speaking world and revealed the dilemmas of university leadership under conditions of sustained crisis. This research examines the typology of leadership exercised by senior administrators in South African higher education in the period just prior to these events, when the tensions…
Academic guilt”
The Decolonization of Knowledge
In 2015, students at the University of Cape Town used the slogan #RhodesMustFall to demand that a monument of Cecil John Rhodes, the empire builder of British South Africa, be removed from the university campus. Soon students at Oxford University called for the removal of a statue of Rhodes from Oriel College. The radical idea of decolonization at the forefront of these student protests continues to be a key element in South African educational i…
Emotional Wellbeing
After the World Health Organization declared COVID-19 a pandemic on 11 March 2020, countries around the world responded with state-mandated lockdowns. Emerging data on the adverse psychological impact of the lockdown shows that women as a whole are among the most vulnerable groups. This study explores the specific stressors manifesting for women academics during lockdown and their toll on emotional wellbeing. A qualitative interpretive analysis o…
A Troubled Body of Knowledge
This article examines the durability of racial science in the field of anatomy at one of South Africa’s oldest universities and its resonance with race essentialist research in other national and transnational contexts. We present a critical assessment of more than 70 published and unpublished papers in anatomy through the lens of the politics of knowledge; in this perspective, scientific knowledge is viewed as socially constructed, value-laden, …
The Uptake of Decolonization
This chapter presents the exemplary curricula of five academics whose work reflects some of the key ideas in decolonization: Even if some of them are reluctant to use the term itself as an adequate descriptor for their efforts at transforming knowledge at their universities. The disciplines in focus are political science (politics), philosophy, psychology, media studies, and the visual arts. A key finding is that these innovations existed in inst…
Care and academic work in a pandemic lockdown
The lack of women in leadership across higher education has been problematised in the literature. Often, contemporary discourses promote “fixing the women” as a solution. Consequently, interventions aimed at helping women break through “the glass ceiling” abound. We argue that the gendered power relations at play in universities cause entrenched inequalities to remain in place, regardless of measures implemented for and by women. This article rep…
Political science (7 works) · Sociology (7 works) · Law (4 works) · Psychology (4 works) · Medicine (3 works) · Pandemic (3 works) · Pedagogy (3 works) · Politics (3 works) · Social science (3 works) · COVID-19 and Mental Health (2 works)