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Articles from Acta Academica: Critical views on society, culture and politics

Spectres of reparation in South Africa: an interview with Jaco Barnard-Naudé

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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 ...
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Thinking about drugs histories and private purposes in South Africa

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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...
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English and/in Africa: reflections on the language question, Afropolitanism, and linguistic orientation six decades after the ‘African Writers Conference’

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Unknown Article

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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...
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Marcien Towa, father of Cameroonian Critical Theory: a comparison with Max Horkheimer

<jats:p> 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 ...
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Why is the world at war? - a call for engagement.

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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...
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