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This title was first published in 2003. A fascinating insight into
the economic, social and political processes that shaped the lives
of white workers in Johannesburg between the beginning of deep
level mining (c. 1890) and the 1922 Rand Revolt miners' strike. The
book examines four related topics: the formation of working class
families, working class accommodation, the constitution of social
networks in the working class neighbourhoods and the political and
ideological aspects of white workers' unemployment. The main
argument presented here is that the class experience of white
workers in Johannesburg had a very important role in fostering a
sense of community between English and Afrikaner workers and their
families. It is this sense of community that plays an important
part in understanding the solidarity that emerged between English
and Afrikaner workers during the 1922 Rand Revolt.
This title was first published in 2003. A fascinating insight into
the economic, social and political processes that shaped the lives
of white workers in Johannesburg between the beginning of deep
level mining (c. 1890) and the 1922 Rand Revolt miners' strike. The
book examines four related topics: the formation of working class
families, working class accommodation, the constitution of social
networks in the working class neighbourhoods and the political and
ideological aspects of white workers' unemployment. The main
argument presented here is that the class experience of white
workers in Johannesburg had a very important role in fostering a
sense of community between English and Afrikaner workers and their
families. It is this sense of community that plays an important
part in understanding the solidarity that emerged between English
and Afrikaner workers during the 1922 Rand Revolt.
Shortly after the giant bronze statue of Cecil John Rhodes came down at the University of Cape Town, student protestors called for the decolonisation of universities. It was a word hardly heard in South Africa's struggle lexicon and many asked: What exactly is decolonisation? This book brings together some of the most innovative thinking on curriculum theory to address this important question.
In the process, several critical questions are raised:
- Is decolonisation simply a slogan for addressing other pressing concerns on campuses and in society?
- What is the colonial legacy with respect to curricula and can it be undone?
- How is the project of curricula decolonisation similar to or different from the quest for post-colonial knowledge, indigenous knowledge or a critical theory of knowledge?
- What does decolonisation mean in a digital age where relationships between knowledge and power are shifting?
Strong conceptual analyses are combined with case studies of attempts to `do decolonisation' in settings as diverse as South Africa, Uganda, Tanzania and Mauritius. This comparative perspective enables reasonable judgments to be made about the prospects for institutional take-up within the curriculum of century-old universities. Decolonisation in Universities is essential reading for undergraduate teaching, postgraduate research and advanced scholarship in the field of curriculum studies.
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