Looking back
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Date
2020
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Jos� Frantz
Abstract
Professors Patricia Hayes and Premesh Lalu have in this edition of Signals provided useful insight into the importance of theory,
history, archives and the humanities in South Africa, and how
they can help �assist us in building an ongoing capacity to
resist oppression and develop a politics of care in the present
and future�. Their reflections on how to develop new ideas
for the way forward in a country and �post-truth� world
mired in crisis invite us to look back for lessons to the 1980s
and 1990s when UWC famously started redefining itself as
an �intellectual home of the democratic left�, challenging the
traditional roles played by universities in South Africa. UWC
questioned the whole system of knowledge production in South
Africa and changed its mission to serve primarily excluded and
marginalised narratives, seeking in the process to develop �an
open and critical alignment � with the political movements and
organisations committed to the struggle for liberation�.
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South Africa, Archives, Politics of care, Universities in South Africa, University of the Western Cape
Citation
Odendaal, A. (2020). Looking back. Signals