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Title:From Racial Liberalism to Corporate Authoritarianism: The Shell Affair and the Assault on Academic Freedom in South Africa
Authors:Southall, RogerISNI
Cobbing, Julian
Year:2001
Periodical:Social Dynamics
Volume:27
Issue:2
Period:Winter
Pages:1-42
Language:English
Geographic term:South Africa
Subjects:academic freedom
universities
Education and Oral Traditions
Ethnic and Race Relations
Politics and Government
international relations
External link:https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/02533950108458711
Abstract:The shift in university governance in South Africa's supposedly 'liberal' universities from 'racial liberalism' towards corporate authoritarianism is putting academic freedom to the test. Academics are becoming ever more subordinated to administrators, who in turn are becoming increasingly intolerant of robust internal dissent. A detailed interpretation of the events that led to the firing of Robert Shell from Rhodes University in 2001 is illustrative of university management's increasing propensity to resort to executive powers to secure the dismissal of academics who are perceived as 'awkward' and embarrassingly critical of university power holders. Bibliogr., notes, ref. [ASC Leiden abstract]
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