ABSTRACT

The dawn of democracy in 1994 ushered in a period of radical change in the higher education sector of South Africa. This rupture represented an opportunity to avoid the replication of patriarchally informed, racially charged, neoliberal practices. More than twenty years later under the banner of Fees Must Fall, students, workers, and academics challenged the exclusionary, racist, exploitative and sexist nature of Higher Learning Institutions that have persisted since this transition from apartheid. In this paper, we reiterate a tested argument in (South) African feminist scholarship by proposing that to fulfil this goal towards transformation and change in and across HLIs, a critical starting point is to use feminist theories to deconstruct parochial, patriarchal ideologies. We review some of the key arguments that various feminists have put forth in relation to meaningfully transforming institutional cultures and pedagogies, ranging from anti-apartheid feminisms to more contemporary, intersectional feminisms and further argue that the neoliberalisation of HLIs, manifested in the capturing of private markets within the education sector, and practices of output-based productivity measurements that create bedrocks of racially charged epistemic exclusions, echo hierarchical patriarchal elements that are remnants of colonialism and apartheid.

摘要

1994年民主时代的到来，南非高等教育领域迎来了根本性的变革。这种破裂为避免重男轻女，种族歧视的新自由主义做法提供了机会。二十多年后，在“必须降费”的旗帜下，学生，工人和学者挑战了自种族隔离制度过渡以来一直存在的排他性，种族主义，剥削性和性别歧视性质。在本文中，我们通过提出要实现朝着HLI内部以及跨HLI转型和变化这一目标的目标，来重申（南非）非洲女权主义学说的一个经过检验的论点，关键的出发点是利用女权主义理论来解构狭och的重男轻女的意识形态。