Transformation and legitimation in post-apartheid universities: reading discourses from 'Reitz'

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dc.contributor.authorVan der Merwe, J. C.
dc.contributor.authorVan Reenen, Dionne
dc.date.accessioned2017-11-13T11:02:13Z
dc.date.available2017-11-13T11:02:13Z
dc.date.issued2016
dc.descriptionThis publication is available from AFRICAN SUN MeDIA: http://dx.doi.org/10.18820/9781920382612
dc.description.abstractTwo decades after the democratic transition, South African universities are in turmoil. Whilst the old is slowly becoming unhinged, reimagining the new is protracted and contested. The challenges ahead, including a funding crunch, are formidable and bear the imprint of South African postcolonial specificities and global transformations in higher education. At this moment, critical and engaged socio-historical scholarship is indispensable. Transformation and Legitimation in Post-apartheid Universities: Reading discourses from ‘Reitz’ is such a work. Revisiting the notorious ‘Reitz incident’ of 2008, when a satirical video made by students from the University of the Free State (UFS) to register their resistance to the racial integration of ‘black’ students into historically ‘white’ residences became public, the text offers an analysis of the broader cultural and socio-political context that constituted the conditions of possibility for the incident and its aftermath. Attention is shifted from the principal actors in the original drama – a handful of students and workers – to a critical interrogation of the broader structures, positions, discourses and practices that fed into the ‘Reitz incident’, reaching into the present with violent and racially-charged student and worker protests in 2016. Van der Merwe and Van Reenen deliver a theoretically-rich analysis of the anatomy of current contestations about race and transformation in higher education in South Africa, the resultant legitimation crisis facing the UFS and South African universities more generally, as well as ways to restore institutional legitimacy and reputation, focusing on instituting deeper, more durable change that unlocks the promise of democracy.en_ZA
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dc.format309 numbered pages / 325 PDF print pages
dc.identifier.citationVan der Merwe, J. C., & Van Reenen, D. (2016). Transformation and legitimation in post-apartheid universities: reading discourses from 'Reitz'. Bloemfontein: SUN MeDIA. doi:10.18820/9781920382612en_ZA
dc.identifier.isbn978-1-920382-60-5 (print)
dc.identifier.issn978-1-920382-61-2 (electronic)
dc.identifier.urihttp://dx.doi.org/10.18820/9781920382612
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/11660/7496
dc.language.isoenen_ZA
dc.publisherSUN MeDIA Bloemfontein (SUN PReSS imprint)en_ZA
dc.rights.holderThe Institution for Reconciliation and Social Justice and SUN MeDIA Bloemfonteinen_ZA
dc.subjectSouth Africaen_ZA
dc.subjectTransitionen_ZA
dc.subjectTransformationen_ZA
dc.subjectReitzen_ZA
dc.subjectManagement policiesen_ZA
dc.subjectHigher Educationen_ZA
dc.subjectViolenceen_ZA
dc.subjectRacismen_ZA
dc.subjectResidence integration policyen_ZA
dc.subjectUniversity of the Free State (UFS)en_ZA
dc.subjectAuthorityen_ZA
dc.subjectLegitimationen_ZA
dc.subjectVandalismen_ZA
dc.subjectTraditionen_ZA
dc.subjectCultureen_ZA
dc.subjectDisruptionen_ZA
dc.subjectFamilyen_ZA
dc.subjectStudentsen_ZA
dc.subjectCrisisen_ZA
dc.subjectCognitive legitimacyen_ZA
dc.subjectMoralen_ZA
dc.subjectSocial politicalen_ZA
dc.subjectPragmaticen_ZA
dc.subjectReputationen_ZA
dc.subjectRetributive justiceen_ZA
dc.subjectReconciliationen_ZA
dc.subjectSpacesen_ZA
dc.subjectAnti-racismen_ZA
dc.subjectApartheiden_ZA
dc.subjectLegacyen_ZA
dc.subjectStudent registrationen_ZA
dc.titleTransformation and legitimation in post-apartheid universities: reading discourses from 'Reitz'en_ZA
dc.typeBooken_ZA
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