Rhodes Must Fall
A posthumanist orientation to decolonising higher education Institutions
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 8069953 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Karin Murris (0000-0001-9613-7738, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2016 |
| Volume | 30 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Publication date | 2016-08-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | South African Journal of Higher Education (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1011-3487 • E-ISSN: 1753-5913 |
| Publisher | African Journals OnLine (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.20853/30-3-653 |
| OpenAlex | W2513379192 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 19 |
| References cited | 10 |
Critical posthumanism focuses on difference, rather than identity, and queers humanist philosophy that has its roots in western metaphysics, which has had a strong humanist articulation since Descartes. Humanism centres on the autonomous adult self as sole source of knowledge production, and instils binaries that marginalise, divide and dichotomise the 'other' in age, race, ethnicity, ability and sexuality. Postcolonial theorising interrogates these power-producing binaries, but tends to retain the dominant western ontological binary between language and reality, thereby assuming that knowledge production is always mediated through the discursive and represented in human-made languages, keeping the material world at a distance. The key question is 'What is left out, forgotten or ignored by using the discursive apparatus of the social sciences only
Aesthetics · Agency (philosophy · Articulation (sociology · Epistemology · Humanism · Identity (music · Metaphysics · Ontology · Political science · Politics · Posthumanism · Social science · Sociology · Theology · Feminist Epistemology and Gender Studies · Foucault, Power, and Ethics · Posthumanist Ethics and Activism · Gender Studies · Law · Philosophy
Dismantling colonial monuments in African cities - the example of Bissau. Is an empty plinth still a monument
Rethinking teacher development
Design and Validation of a Questionnaire for University Students’ Generic Competencies (Comgau)
A construção linguístico-material do meu corpo não-binário negro
Towards a critical re -conceptualization of the purpose of higher education
Gazing at South African higher education transformation through the potential role of the Wesleyan quadrilateral
True versus False Transformation
Humans, Nonhuman Others, Matter and Language
Gewete, transformasie en herinnering op die Rooiplein
Post-qualitative design research
Post-qualitative design research
Auto/ethno/biography, anti-Jim Crow, and (de)coloniality in Richard Rive’s Writing Black
Creating comics, songs and poems to make sense of decolonising the curriculum
University Spaces as Sites of Conscience
Covid19, “we are in this Together or are we” a Decolonial Crisis of Locating the Missing People in the Post-Human, South Africa
A humanist university in a posthuman world
Why (and how) statues matter
Radical Uncertainty Is Not Enough
Affective politics and colonial heritage, Rhodes Must Fall at UCT and Oxford
The power of things! A ‘new’ ontology of sexuality at school
Posthumanist Performativity
Researching without representation? Language and materiality in post-qualitative methodology
Challenging anthropocentric analysis of visual data
Metamorphoses
A diffractive and Deleuzian approach to analysing interview data
Situated Knowledges
Vibrant Matter
Steps Towards Decolonial Higher Education in Southern Africa? Epistemic Disobedience in the Humanities
| Citations per year | 2.71 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2019 - 2026 (8) |
| Highly cited | No |