The Charter for the Humanities and the Social Sciences in South Africa- a Post-Colonial Moment?

The Charter for the Humanities and the Social Sciences in South Africa- a Post-Colonial Moment?

In Decolonizing the Academy (2003), we argued that the current university is a liberating space for the transformational of knowledge but simultaneously functions also as a space that reinscribes colonial politics through a variety of departments founded under the principles of maintaining hegemoni...

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المؤلف الرئيسي: Sitas, Ari
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منشور في: 2019
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spelling cairn-PRESA_197_0297PRESAPrésence Africaine https://shs.cairn.info/revue-presence-africaine-2018-1-page-297?lang=en https://doi.org/10.3917/presa.197.0297 The Charter for the Humanities and the Social Sciences in South Africa- a Post-Colonial Moment? Sitas, Ari2019 fre Présence Africaine | 197 | 1 | 2019-04-04 | p. 297-311 | 0032-7638 PRESA_19754 In Decolonizing the Academy (2003), we argued that the current university is a liberating space for the transformational of knowledge but simultaneously functions also as a space that reinscribes colonial politics through a variety of departments founded under the principles of maintaining hegemonic politics of former European and American powers. African and Caribbean universities, structured under these models repeat the patterns of dominance instituted and years after independence many have not yet been decolonized. The study of literatures in these institutions repeat these formations in structures despite the work of writer/scholars like Ngugi wa Thiong’o et al in “On the Abolition of the English Department” (1967) which led to the creation of Departments of Literatures and Literary Theories in selected institutions. Regrettably, even African American Studies Departments repeat some of these foundational errors as Sylvia Wynter asserts in “How WE Mistook the Map for the Territory.” This paper examines some of these trajectories and proposes a more advanced paradigm for academic units in the Humanities.Cairn restricted access
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description In Decolonizing the Academy (2003), we argued that the current university is a liberating space for the transformational of knowledge but simultaneously functions also as a space that reinscribes colonial politics through a variety of departments founded under the principles of maintaining hegemonic politics of former European and American powers. African and Caribbean universities, structured under these models repeat the patterns of dominance instituted and years after independence many have not yet been decolonized. The study of literatures in these institutions repeat these formations in structures despite the work of writer/scholars like Ngugi wa Thiong’o et al in “On the Abolition of the English Department” (1967) which led to the creation of Departments of Literatures and Literary Theories in selected institutions. Regrettably, even African American Studies Departments repeat some of these foundational errors as Sylvia Wynter asserts in “How WE Mistook the Map for the Territory.” This paper examines some of these trajectories and proposes a more advanced paradigm for academic units in the Humanities.
author Sitas, Ari
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The Charter for the Humanities and the Social Sciences in South Africa- a Post-Colonial Moment?
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title The Charter for the Humanities and the Social Sciences in South Africa- a Post-Colonial Moment?
title_short The Charter for the Humanities and the Social Sciences in South Africa- a Post-Colonial Moment?
title_full The Charter for the Humanities and the Social Sciences in South Africa- a Post-Colonial Moment?
title_fullStr The Charter for the Humanities and the Social Sciences in South Africa- a Post-Colonial Moment?
title_full_unstemmed The Charter for the Humanities and the Social Sciences in South Africa- a Post-Colonial Moment?
title_sort charter for the humanities and the social sciences in south africa- a post-colonial moment?
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