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Vol. 6 No 2-3 (2008): Revue de l’enseignement supérieur en Afrique

5 - A Search for Post-apartheid Collective Identities: Ethnic Student Organisations at a South African University

https://doi.org/10.57054/jhea.v6i2-3.1615
Dinga Sikwebu

Revue de l’enseignement supérieur en Afrique, Vol. 6 No 2-3 (2008): Revue de l’enseignement supérieur en Afrique

Résumé

La recherche académique sur l’enseignement supérieur sous-estime les niveaux d’activisme étudiant dans l’Afrique du Sud d’après l’apartheid. Elle prétend que l’organisation des étudiants est sporadique, fragmentée et peu représentative des larges couches étudiantes. Du fait de l’accent mis sur les identités politiques aussi bien qu’à cause de l’échec à définir l’activisme de façon plus large que ses mani- festations sous forme de protestations, cette estimation ne parvient pas à reconnaître l’importance de la myriade d’organisations culturelles et religieuses qui existent dans les universités sud-africaines. En ignorant ces formes d’organisation, la littérature qui insiste sur le déclin de l’activisme étudiant après la fin de l’apartheid ne se borne pas à ignorer les initiatives dans lesquelles les étudiants s’organisent autour de leurs ‘nouvelles’ identités, elle ne parvient pas à apprécier comment, sur le plan historique, ces organisations ‘persistantes’ ont pu connecter une vague de protestations à une autre. Utilisant l’Université de Witswaterstrand (Wits) comme site de recherche, cet article se concentre sur l’identité ethnique en tant que caractéristique signifiante autour de laquelle une section de la population étudiante s’organise. L’article s’intéresse à la façon dont la disparition de l’apartheid légal, le nouvel environnement politique aussi bien que l’échec des mouvements politiques étudiants traditionnels à s’organiser autour des multiples identités de leur base, ont fourni un espace et une impulsion à des formes d’organisation nouvelles.

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Ethnique Sud africain etudiant
Sikwebu, D. (2008). 5 - A Search for Post-apartheid Collective Identities: Ethnic Student Organisations at a South African University. Revue De l’enseignement supérieur En Afrique, 6(2-3), 107–133. https://doi.org/10.57054/jhea.v6i2-3.1615
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Dinga Sikwebu

Lecturer, Department of Sociology, University of Witswatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa (dinga.sikwebu@wits.ac.za)

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