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Politics, (Re)Possession and Resurgence of Student Protests in South African Universities.
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Politikon: South African Journal of Political Studies . Sep2021, Vol. 48 Issue 3, p486-505. 20p. - Publication Year :
- 2021
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Abstract
- In post-apartheid South Africa, one of the central analytical questions is to do with the continuity of protests, in particular student movement protests that are highly driven by social, economic and political conditions in the present. In a social and political context of student protests, student movement is considered a threat to the state and a target for state violence. In this paper, we assert that student movement in contemporary South Africa is a social and political space in which we can begin to engage with and understand issues of dispossession and repossession as re-emerging struggles in South Africa. We also assert that student protests should be understood as real or perceived emancipatory terrain of transformation within and beyond the university campus, but also as the engine that engages with the unfinished struggle for decolonisation and transformation in post-apartheid South Africa. We draw on and engage with decolonial thought as our analytical lens through which to unpack and understand student protests in South Africa. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
- Subjects :
- *STUDENT activism
*APARTHEID
*PROTEST movements
*SOCIAL space
*PRACTICAL politics
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- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 02589346
- Volume :
- 48
- Issue :
- 3
- Database :
- Academic Search Index
- Journal :
- Politikon: South African Journal of Political Studies
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 151876760
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1080/02589346.2021.1952738