Decolonising the Neoliberal University: Law Psychoanalysis and the Politics of Student Protest

Decolonising the Neoliberal University Law, Psychoanalysis and the Politics of Student Protest 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. 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. 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.Additional ISBNs9780367903725, 9781003198581, 9781000427530Decolonising the Neoliberal University: Law, Psychoanalysis and the Politics of Student Protest 1st Edition is written by Author and published by Birkbeck Law Press. ISBNs for Decolonising the Neoliberal University are 9781000427561, 1000427560 and the print ISBNs are 9781032056548, 1032056541. Additional ISBNs include 9780367903725, 9781003198581, 9781000427530.