In Pursuit of Epistemic Healing in South African Universities: Black Students’ Encounters with the Structural and Spiritual Violence of Coloniality in Higher Education (1) (Routledge Advances in Feminist Studies and Intersectionality)
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- Synopsis
- This book demonstrates the epistemic challenges in the South African education system and asks readers to think critically about the university's role in a decolonial future. Wanelisa Xaba reveals how Western colonial educational models severed indigenous ways of knowing and learning across the Global South and settler colonial contexts.Presenting narratives capturing ongoing histories of violence, this book shows how Black South African students navigate intersecting identities of race, class, gender, and spirituality within university settings. It shows how racial discrimination from fellow students, academics, and staff, coupled with discriminatory language policies, financial exclusion, and violent colonial curricula, affects Black students' wellbeing on university campuses. Xaba argues that these intersecting colonial violences mirror spiritual violence, hinder their holistic citizenship in South African universities, and result in psycho-spiritual disease.By centring Black students' voices, this book provides crucial insights for educators, policymakers, activists, healers, and institutions committed to creating affirming academic spaces and epistemic healing. It is an insightful read for scholars researching decoloniality in higher education, as well as students of feminist studies, decolonial theory, educational justice, and critical university studies.
- Copyright:
- 2026
Book Details
- Book Quality:
- Publisher Quality
- Book Size:
- 232 Pages
- ISBN-13:
- 9781040445280
- Related ISBNs:
- 9781032777443, 9781032777399, 9781003484578, 9781040445235
- Publisher:
- Taylor & Francis
- Date of Addition:
- 09/30/25
- Copyrighted By:
- Wanelisa Xaba, The right of Wanelisa Xaba to be identified as author of this work has been asserted in accordance with sections
- Adult content:
- No
- Language:
- English
- Has Image Descriptions:
- No
- Categories:
- Nonfiction, Education, Social Studies, Politics and Government
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- Bookshare Staff
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- This is a copyrighted book.
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