Papers by Nosipho Mngomezulu
"There's a riot going on": this is the title of Peter Doggett's exploration of the heady counter-... more "There's a riot going on": this is the title of Peter Doggett's exploration of the heady counter-culture movement which swept across large swathes of the world in and around the 1960s. Decades later, this phrase has acquired a new resonance; an almost prophetic quality, when it is used to describe what we have been witnessing across University campuses in South Africa, India, and a number of other countries since 2015. Increasing clamp downs on institutions of higher learning (ranging from state-run to private as well as rights-based organisations), and the unease manifest in the ways in which students have responded to what is now commonly identified as the commercialisation of higher education - the University embracing its role as arbiter and perpetuator of the neoliberal creed - are inter-related phenomena, and need to be understood in terms of what they mean for youth and student politics, as well as what these movements have done to disrupt the systematic inequities and violence/s configured into the workings of the institutions which house them.
This Thematic Issue aims to bring together contributions from countries currently in the throes of student movements world over; from Brazil to South Africa and India, in a bid to set these movements in conversation. Ever aware that these divisions between 'local' and 'global' are increasingly blurred, this issue aims to center narratives from the Global South in order to think through the myriad transnational movements articulating themselves in acutely different ways, in increasingly neoliberal modes, in various post-colonial contexts, together. It also seeks to complement our understanding of the nexus between the commoditisation of higher education and projects of nationalism.
In sum, this Section is an attempt to engage with the larger question of how we may, as scholars, educators and ethnographers, engage with and elucidate these student movements.
This thesis examines young people’s constructions of nationhood in Mauritius. In 2008, the Maurit... more This thesis examines young people’s constructions of nationhood in Mauritius. In 2008, the Mauritian government instituted a Truth and Justice Commission (TJC), set up to investigate the consequences of slavery and indentured labour. Through the Truth and Justice Commission, the Mauritian government indicated its desire to achieve social justice and national unity. Drawing on developments in studies of national identification practices in the 21st Century, this thesis addresses the question of young Mauritian’s locally and globally informed identification practices and asks how their unofficial narratives of nationhood challenge, or divert, or relate to official state narratives of nationhood. The basis of the study emerges from data collected from 132 participants during fieldwork in multiple fieldsites from May to September 2010 as well as research on Mauritian youth on-line from 2011-2014. The advent of the TJC offers an ideal moment to evaluate the dynamics of post-colonial nati...
Nosipho Mngomezulu and Harmony Siganporia explore the continuities and points of departure in stu... more Nosipho Mngomezulu and Harmony Siganporia explore the continuities and points of departure in student movements across India and South Africa, in a bid to better decode the summer of disaffection we currently inhabit.
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Papers by Nosipho Mngomezulu
This Thematic Issue aims to bring together contributions from countries currently in the throes of student movements world over; from Brazil to South Africa and India, in a bid to set these movements in conversation. Ever aware that these divisions between 'local' and 'global' are increasingly blurred, this issue aims to center narratives from the Global South in order to think through the myriad transnational movements articulating themselves in acutely different ways, in increasingly neoliberal modes, in various post-colonial contexts, together. It also seeks to complement our understanding of the nexus between the commoditisation of higher education and projects of nationalism.
In sum, this Section is an attempt to engage with the larger question of how we may, as scholars, educators and ethnographers, engage with and elucidate these student movements.
This Thematic Issue aims to bring together contributions from countries currently in the throes of student movements world over; from Brazil to South Africa and India, in a bid to set these movements in conversation. Ever aware that these divisions between 'local' and 'global' are increasingly blurred, this issue aims to center narratives from the Global South in order to think through the myriad transnational movements articulating themselves in acutely different ways, in increasingly neoliberal modes, in various post-colonial contexts, together. It also seeks to complement our understanding of the nexus between the commoditisation of higher education and projects of nationalism.
In sum, this Section is an attempt to engage with the larger question of how we may, as scholars, educators and ethnographers, engage with and elucidate these student movements.