Decolonising the Neoliberal University

<p>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.</p><p>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.</p><p>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.</p>