Launch of 'Decolonising the Neo-liberal University: Law, Psychoanalysis and the Politics of Student Protest'
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Online
We take pleasure in inviting you to the launch of 'Decolonising the Neo-liberal University: Law, Psychoanalysis and the Politics of Student Protest', a book that consists of Jacqueline Rose’s 2017 University of Cape Town Vice-Chancellor’s Open Lecture and a tightly arranged set of responses to the lecture by academics of international repute, including Judith Butler and Achille Mbembe.
The book takes the postcolonial or, more specifically, the post-apartheid – university as its focus, and considers 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. 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. Decolonising the Neo-liberal University is published by Birkbeck Law Press, an imprint of Routledge.
Jacqueline Rose will be in conversation with the editor of the collection, Jaco Barnard-Naudé, and with contributors, Victoria Collis-Buthelezi and Joel M Modiri.
Contact name:
Elia Ntaousani, BIH Manager