"Rhodes must fall" : South Africa's ongoing university student protests against contemporary globalization's neoliberal violence
- Degree Grantor:
- University of California, Santa Barbara. Global and international studies
- Degree Supervisor:
- John Foran and Esther Lezra
- Place of Publication:
- [Santa Barbara, Calif.]
- Publisher:
- University of California, Santa Barbara
- Creation Date:
- 2016
- Issued Date:
- 2016
- Topics:
- South African studies, Higher education, and International relations
- Keywords:
- Hegemony,
Violence,
Colonialism,
Democracy,
Neoliberalism, and
South Africa - Genres:
- Online resources and Dissertations, Academic
- Dissertation:
- M.A.--University of California, Santa Barbara, 2016
- Description:
Despite apartheid's 1994 de jure abolition, contemporary university students in South Africa transgressively protest for ongoing, radical, de facto "decolonization" that they allege, and I agree, has not occurred. My thesis historicizes and analyzes the Rhodes Must Fall (RMF) and Open Stellenbosch (OS) protests at University of Cape Town (UCT) and Stellenbosch University (SU), respectively. I analyze how university students' protests drive counter-hegemonic social movements locally, regionally, and potentially globally. I highlight marginalized students' imagination and articulation of alternatives to global neoliberalism, which is transgressive and perceived as radical.
I contextualize this case study of contemporary counter-hegemony in South Africa through a theoretical-conceptual approach, and a deep, colonial, historical approach. I present three critical premises: (1) neoliberalism is de-democratization and covert authoritarianism; (2) universities are potential sites of critical democratization; and (3) marginalized university students drive a radical, transgressive imagination of alternative worlds.
I provide critical historical background to situate South Africa within Contemporary Globalization before chronicling the emergent themes of ongoing protests. Following my South Africa case study, I briefly compare RMF and OS to other university student protests around the globe, including California and Germany. I suggest that under Contemporary Globalization, apparently dissimilar social movements share much in common, including universities' simultaneous assimilation into, and potential for resistance against, the new, covert authoritarianism and de-democratization of global neoliberalism.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (348 pages)
- Format:
- Text
- Collection(s):
- UCSB electronic theses and dissertations
- Other Versions:
- http://gateway.proquest.com/openurl?url_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info:ofi/fmt:kev:mtx:dissertation&res_dat=xri:pqm&rft_dat=xri:pqdiss:10245037
- ARK:
- ark:/48907/f3z60p7z
- ISBN:
- 9781369576269
- Catalog System Number:
- 990047511910203776
- Copyright:
- Timothy Irvine, 2016
- Rights:
In Copyright
- Copyright Holder:
- Timothy Irvine
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