Book contents
- A Better Future
- A Better Future
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Tables
- Notes on Contributors
- Introduction
- Part I Encountering Marginalisation
- Part II Deconstructing Marginalisation
- Part III Confronting Marginalisation
- Chapter 14 ‘Now I Constantly Challenge Society by Bringing My Existence Forward’
- Chapter 15 Towards an Emergent Theory of Fallism (and the Fall of the White-Liberal-University in South Africa)
- Chapter 16 Family Sacrifice, Faltering Systems
- Chapter 17 DACAmented
- Chapter 18 Building Ethical Relationships through the Borderless Higher Education for Refugees Project in Dadaab, Kenya
- Chapter 19 The ‘Jungle’ Is Here; The Jungle Is Outside
- Chapter 20 Culture, Gender and Technology
- Index
- References
Chapter 15 - Towards an Emergent Theory of Fallism (and the Fall of the White-Liberal-University in South Africa)
from Part III - Confronting Marginalisation
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 06 September 2020
Book contents
- A Better Future
- A Better Future
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Tables
- Notes on Contributors
- Introduction
- Part I Encountering Marginalisation
- Part II Deconstructing Marginalisation
- Part III Confronting Marginalisation
- Chapter 14 ‘Now I Constantly Challenge Society by Bringing My Existence Forward’
- Chapter 15 Towards an Emergent Theory of Fallism (and the Fall of the White-Liberal-University in South Africa)
- Chapter 16 Family Sacrifice, Faltering Systems
- Chapter 17 DACAmented
- Chapter 18 Building Ethical Relationships through the Borderless Higher Education for Refugees Project in Dadaab, Kenya
- Chapter 19 The ‘Jungle’ Is Here; The Jungle Is Outside
- Chapter 20 Culture, Gender and Technology
- Index
- References
Summary
When a Black student threw faeces against a bronze statue of British imperialist Cecil John Rhodes, located at the University of Cape Town (UCT), it sparked the formation of the #RhodesMustFall (#RMF) student movement in March 2015. The Black-led #RMF movement sought to decolonise the university by delinking from UCT’s dominant model of Euro-American knowledge to construct their own decolonial framework comprised of Pan-Africanism, Black Consciousness and Black radical feminism. A few weeks later in May 2015, students at the University of Oxford who were inspired by the student movement at UCT created the #RhodesMustFall Oxford movement, using the Rhodes statue at Oriel College as a focal point in their call to decolonise the university. This chapter explores the formation of the #RMF student movements at UCT and Oxford – referred to as the Fallist movements. I first consider what led the #RMF UCT movement to adopt a decolonial framework and then examine how #RMF’s framework generated the idea of ‘Fallism’. Finally, I experiment with developing Fallism into an emergent decolonial theory to unveil the paradoxical epistemic architecture of the white-liberal-university.
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- A Better FutureThe Role of Higher Education for Displaced and Marginalised People, pp. 339 - 362Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2020
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