Decolonising the Neoliberal University: Law, Psychoanalysis and the Politics of Student Protest (Birkbeck Law Press) - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1032056541 ISBN 13: 9781032056548

Publisher: Birkbeck Law Press, 2023

Synopsis

Taking the postcolonial – or, more specifically, the post-apartheid – university as its focus, the book takes the violence and the trauma of the global neoliberal hegemony as its central point of reference.

Following a primarily psychoanalytic line of enquiry, it engages a range of disciplines – law, philosophy, literature, gender studies, cultural studies and political economy – in order better to understand the conditions of possibility of an emancipatory, or decolonised, higher education. And this in the context of both the inter-generational transmission of the trauma of colonialism, on the one hand, and, on the other, the trauma of neoliberal subjectivity in the postcolonial university. Oriented around an important lecture by Jacqueline Rose, the volume contains contributions from world-renowned authors, such as Judith Butler and Achille Mbembe, as well as numerous legal and other theorists who share their concern with interrogating the contemporary crisis in higher education.

This truly interdisciplinary collection will appeal to a wide range of readers right across the humanities, but especially those with substantial interests in the contemporary state of the university, as well as those with theoretical interests in postcolonialism, psychoanalysis, gender studies, cultural studies, jurisprudence and law.

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About the Author

Jaco Barnard-Naudé is Professor of Jurisprudence in the Department of Private Law, University of Cape Town.

Edition details

• Publisher: Birkbeck Law Press
• Publication date: 2023
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1032056541
• ISBN 13: 9781032056548
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 188
• Editor: Barnard-Naude Jaco