The complicity of language, knowledge and justice

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Van Marle, Karin

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In reading Pieter Duvenage’s Afrikaanse filosofie. Perspektiewe en dialoë (2016) other texts came to mind – Peter Vale, Lawrence Hamilton and Estelle Prinsloo’s edited collection on Intellectual traditions in South Africa (2014); Andrew Nash’s 2000 article on what he called ‘the new politics of Afrikaans’; the majority and minority judgments in the case of City of Tshwane vs Afriforum; an article by Achille Mbembe on the decolonisation of the university, to name a few. In my reflection on Duvenage’s perspectives and dialogues I recall my thoughts arising from these texts. I read his book also within the context of ongoing calls for radical transformation, decolonisation, and spatial and epistemic justice.

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Decolonisation, Radical transformation, South Africa (SA), Complicity, Language, Knowledge, Spatial justice, Epistemic justice

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Van Marle, K. 2017, 'The complicity of language, knowledge and justice', Acta Academica, vol. 49, no. 1, pp. 103-115.