ACUSAfrica-Pod

About ACUSAfrica-Pod

"Unless we reimagine new spaces of knowledge production, the university does not exist, It remains a space of contestation"(Edith Paswana, 2019). This podcast shares Advancing Critical University Studies (ACUS) content, hosted at the Nelson Mandela University- South Africa. The episodes reflect collaborations & partnerships with other academic institutions and researchers with similar interests.

Publisher

ACUSAfrica-Pod

Category

education

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

31 May 2021

Latest episode

14 Sept 2021

Latest episodes

3 episodes in the feed.

1. 

   14 Sept 2021

   Rethinking Mandela's Legacy in the Midst of War on Women's Bodies

   Dear Friends, Our guest Prof Relobohile Moletsane, shares with us her original seminar paper titled: Rethinking Legacies in the Midst of the War on Women's Bodies: A feminist 'Ghost Dance' with Mandela. This elaborate work invites us to ponder on the following questions; Does our scholarship ask what historical and cultural events have brought us here in 2019-2021? Why are girls, women, and differently gendered bodies besieged with unprecedented levels of gender-based violence and femicide? How does the 'Ghost Dance' a Native American form of resistance, help us to regenerate our public and private spaces? Can we co-exist, live, learn, work safely and freely? Prof Relobohile also invokes the spirit and legacy of Rolihlahla Mandela, and what he offers to the decolonial academic endeavors we seek in South African Universities. In this podcast, Koleka Putuma's poem EVERY/THREE HOURS (2019) is part of this episode. Thanking you for being the willing 'hearer'. Best wishes, #ACUSAFRICA https://anchor.fm/acus--pod/message

2. 

   1 Aug 2021

   The World as it could be: African Psychology for the Inferiorized

   Dear Friends, welcome to another ACUSAFRICA-pod, hosted at Nelson Mandela University. Professor Kopano Ratele joins us, he is an acclaimed South African psychologist and scholar. He is currently based at the Department of Psychology at Stellenbosch University South Africa. His research, teachings, social-political activism, and community mobilizations are in African psychology, African-situated decolonizing psychology, masculinity, identity, violence, traditions, sexuality, class, race, and other areas. He contributes regularly to newspapers, and television. He has also been on the CapeTalk Dads radio show, aired weekly in 2017-2018 discussing matters related to boys, men, masculinity, sexuality, violence, and fatherhood. In this episode, Prof Kopano invites us to think, under what conditions would we consider an excellent or even a satisfactory thesis that quotes mainly authors from Western Europe or North America. He also attends to the question, does our world reflect our fullness? Why should decolonization be part of how we live, teach, learn and research for change? Visit our website Twitter acusafrica.com @cri_shet Leave your voice messages at https://anchor.fm/acus--pod/message

3. 

   31 May 2021

   Racism's Knowledge, Critical Hope and the Transformation of the University

   Our guest Prof André Keet of Nelson Mandela University discusses critical hope and the possibilities for transformation resident in the conversation between Africanisation and decolonization. This conversation is timely and reveals the daunting project of Africanisation and decolonization that appear to be prefigured in the knowledge that belongs to racism, which steers not only our socio-economic reality; but also our epistemic imagination. This Episode is originally a webinar made possible by the collaboration of SRHE and the University of Bath International Centre for Higher Education Management. Prof Rajani Naidoo of the Univerisity of Bath opens this conversation. Feel free to leave your sound notes, we would be honored to connect with you. https://anchor.fm/acus--pod/message For more details; acusafrica.com

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