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Articles from Acta Academica: Critical views on society, culture and politics
Narratives as a gateway to transitional justice
<jats:p>In many ways transitional justice is a battle of narratives. Both at the conception and implementation stages, it is contested in part by different meanings of what justice is, how harm ...
A decolonial reading of Bernstein’s sociology of education in transforming the university in South Africa
<jats:p>In this paper, I reclaim Bernstein’s pedagogic device to think through and theorise higher education transformation and decolonisation in the global South. I am especially persuaded by...
In medias res: the diminishing of historical continuity in modern thought
<jats:p>Innovation and future predictions are discussed as the main goals of modern technology. Living in this empirical, modern world set on the future has the possibility of diminishing the va...
Marcien Towa, father of Cameroonian Critical Theory: a comparison with Max Horkheimer
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In this paper, I examine the extent to which Marcien Towa (1931-2014) can be considered the Father of Cameroonian Critical Theory. In this regard, I compare what can be called his ...
A Benjaminian appraisal of mass culture and its technologies of reproduction
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This paper reconstructs the views of Walter Benjamin - with particular focus and emphasis on his analyses of mass culture and its reproductive technologi...