ABSTRACT
This chapter begins with a brief review of the concepts of (de)coloniality and (de)colonisation, and of a range of approaches that have been proposed for decolonising higher education in South Africa. It explores the extent to which the idea of decolonisation provides an intellectual and political space for imagining, and working towards, the university as a just space. Nancy Fraser’s work demonstrates her consistent concern about justice, especially with how global capitalism’s evolving faces have given rise to changing dynamics of injustice, and with the responsibilities that flow from her analyses for people committed to a radically democratic project. Achille Mbembe argues that subsequent to the end of direct colonial rule, relations between universities of the Global North and those in the Global South continue to be characterised by considerable power imbalances. The chapter concludes that Fraser’s contribution to understanding of imperialism, neoliberalism and the crisis of capitalism as an important formation of coloniality is considerable.
