ABSTRACT
On the 16th of January 2016, a majority of students at the Oxford University Union voted in favour of removing a statue of Victorian imperialist Cecil Rhodes from the top of Oriel College. Beginning at the University of Cape Town, activists participating in what has come to be known as the "XMustFall" movement aim to free Higher Education of its colonial remnants and neo-imperialist implications. Scholars and activists have long argued that the Western university has since its inception served to reflect and reproduce racist, colonial structures of power-knowledge. The oversight is endemic to much scholarship on the "neoliberal university", despite the fact that postcolonial and other anticolonial scholars have for a long time extensively problematized the manifestations of colonial power relations in knowledge production. Cambridge should not be read as a representative case for an audited "neoliberal university".
