Pub Date : 1900-01-01DOI: 10.13169/intecritdivestud.4.2.0012
Gabriel Hoosain Khan, N. Barnes, Sianne Alves
We live in a South Africa defined by deep inequalities. The post-apartheid promise of free and quality education is met by the realities of lasting disparities related to race, gender, socioeconomic class and disability, among other factors. The University of Cape Town (UCT) has initiated two interdependent processes to chart and track transformation, inclusion and diversity during these turbulent times. First, the university has set up an Inclusivity Survey, using a validated scale to understand staff experiences in relation to inclusion. Secondly, the university has identified and piloted a set of Transformation Benchmarks inspired by a higher education barometer for transformation in South Africa and global diversity and inclusion standards, which encourages transformation agents to take concrete actions to further transformation. Both these processes, first implemented in 2019, experimented with new ways of tracing the shape of transformation, inclusion and diversity at UCT. The paper will explore the opportunities and limitations these structured approaches to transformation offer to higher education institutions. For example, while structured approaches are useful, some argue that these reduce the complexity of social struggles (like those against racism) to simple box-ticking exercises. In unpacking these issues, the paper seeks to ask: how can we better monitor, evaluate and track progress in an increasingly turbulent world?
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Pub Date : 1900-01-01DOI: 10.13169/intecritdivestud.4.2.0096
M. Blackie
In this paper, Critical Realism is used as a theoretical framework to show that diversity is an asset to science not a threat. Critical Realism situates the reliability and reproducibility of science in the realm of the real and thus relocates the notion of “objectivity” from the person of the scientist to the process of science. This means that it no longer necessary to attempt to minimise the person of the scientist in pursuit of rigorous knowledge. The implication is that diversity both in terms of intellectual training (within limits) and in terms of being multicultural, gender, sexuality, multilingual, is revealed to be an asset. This is because the construction of knowledge draws on personal experience and having people with divergent experience interrogating the same problem is more likely to provide a reliable, reproducible solution. In the latter parts of the paper, the implications for teaching are described. In addition, it is demonstrated that this argument can be extended into different knowledge areas.
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Pub Date : 1900-01-01DOI: 10.13169/intecritdivestud.5.1.0080
G. Khan
In this commentary, I draw upon my work as activist and facilitator of transformLAB, a participatory zine-making workshop hosted online with transformation agents from the University of Cape Town (UCT). TransformLAB brought together a group of 16 transformation agents to dream about queer, decolonial, feminist and anti-racist alternatives in higher education. The intervention was hosted over a four-month period and culminated in the development of a zine. Artworks from the zine are curated in this commentary and offer an uncensored and alternate vision for furthering transformation, diversity and inclusion (TDI) at UCT and beyond. This commentary will draw on first-person reflections by the facilitator of transformLAB, artworks from the zine and participant voices to share some of the journey of this intervention. In doing so, this commentary explores the radical potential a dreaming exercise, such as transformLAB, can offer for TDI work in South African higher education.
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Pub Date : 1900-01-01DOI: 10.13169/intecritdivestud.4.1.0010
Tremain
Tremain the forefront of efforts increase the diversity of philosophy, with respect to employment of disabled philosophers, mentorship of disabled students, attention to critical philosophical work on disability. BIOPOLITICAL PHILOSOPHY, the philosophy blog that focuses on issues of underrepresentation in philosophy and which is home to Dialogues on Disability, the groundbreaking and critically acclaimed series of interviews that she conducts with disabled philosophers. ABSTRACT In this article, I indicate how the naturalized and individualized conception of disability that prevails in philosophy informs the indifference of philosophers to the predictable COVID-19 tragedy that has unfolded in nursing homes, supported living centers, psychiatric institutions, and other institutions in which elders and younger disabled people are placed. I maintain that, insofar as feminist and other discourses represent these institutions as sites of care and love, they enact structural gaslighting. I argue, therefore, that philosophers must engage in conceptual engineering with respect to how disability and these institutions are understood and represented. To substantiate my argument, I trace the sequence of catastrophic events that have occurred in nursing homes in Canada and in the Canadian province of Ontario in particular during the pandemic, tying these events to other past and current eugenic practices produced in the Canadian context. The crux of the article is that the COVID-19 pandemic has thrown into vivid relief the carceral character of nursing homes and other congregate settings in which elders and younger disabled people are confined.
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Pub Date : 1900-01-01DOI: 10.13169/intecritdivestud.5.1.0041
George Mvalo
Chapter 3 of the Constitution of South Africa makes provision for cooperative system of governance between the three tiers of government: national, provincial and local. In higher education this provision finds expression through the Higher Education Act 101 of 1997 and institutional statutes. Cooperative governance of public universities pivots around key institutional actors as part of democratisation of institutional governance. Cooperative governance is an important twentieth-century governance innovation for South African public universities. In juxtaposing university governance and public accountability, democratisation has been identified as a crucial ingredient in broadening the processes of decision making, promoting greater participation and ensuring inclusion of black “bodies” in university governance. One of the cooperative governance structures of South African public universities is the institutional forum (IF). Born in the crucible of student activism in the 1980s, IFs have had a mixture of success and failures since their first implementation in 1998. They were conceived as agents for social justice and democratisation in the driving of transformation of public universities. This paper examines extant literature on the evolution, functions and challenges of the IF in driving institutional transformation and concludes by suggesting further areas for research.
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Pub Date : 1900-01-01DOI: 10.13169/intecritdivestud.3.1.0079
Falkof
{"title":"Review of Alana Lentin, Why Race Still Matters","authors":"Falkof","doi":"10.13169/intecritdivestud.3.1.0079","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.13169/intecritdivestud.3.1.0079","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":224459,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Critical Diversity Studies","volume":"63 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114984351","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 1900-01-01DOI: 10.13169/intecritdivestud.3.2.0008
Ndelu
{"title":"“We Refuse to be Silenced”: Writing a Fallist Politics into the Criminalization of Racist Hate Speech in South Africa","authors":"Ndelu","doi":"10.13169/intecritdivestud.3.2.0008","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.13169/intecritdivestud.3.2.0008","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":224459,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Critical Diversity Studies","volume":"16 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126478247","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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