This lecture was originally presented on August 9th, 2022, as part of the Lecture Series on Feminist Political Theory and Discourse, organised by the Political Theory Student Research Committee of the International Association for Political Science Students.
Taking to task the onto-epistemological aspects of coloniality as they find expression in University curriculums, this paper considers the different strategies available to black creatives and intellectuals to disrupt dehumanizing pedagogical practices premised on an anti-black, Euro-American worldview. Disrupting dominant economic narratives on South African students call to decolonize the university, this paper takes seriously the curriculum as a site of subject formation and epistemic warfare in which black students are demanding a theory and praxis which affirms their legibility and emancipatory aspirations. In what ways can the contemporary, ‘post-democratic’ curriculum be seen as an extension of that agreed upon at the South African Commission of Native Affairs in 1903? Put differently, to what extent have black intellectuals been successful in creating the space for an emancipatory political imagination within their classrooms and course outlines? At the intersection of Soudien’s ‘What to teach the native?’, Woodson’s Mis-education of the Negro, Harney and Moten’s Undercommons and students claims of intellectual alienation in the classroom is a serious claim of the impossibility of restructuring western educational institutions in ways that betray their racist, capitalist foundations. I then turn to a Black Feminist Poethics as offering the epistemological and methodical foundations for manoeuvring out of this current heteropatriarchal white supremacist world (ala bell hooks) into one where we can bring about the necessary resignification and critical fabulation to begin to think about a new world
Presenter: Moshibudi Motimele
PhD Candidate in Political Science
University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg
Political Theory Research Committee Member
The International Association for Political Science Students (IAPSS) is a democratic student government representing political science students around the world.
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