Decolonising the Neoliberal University: Law, Ps, Barnard-Naude Paperback..

Decolonising the Neoliberal UniversityLaw, Psychoanalysis and the Politics of Student Protest\nAuthor(s): Jaco Barnard-Naude\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd, United Kingdom\nImprint: Taylor & Francis Ltd\nISBN-13: 9781032056548, 978-1032056548\nSynopsis\nTaking 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.\n\nFollowing 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.