- Title
- A peaceful revenge: Achieving structural and agential transformation in a South African context using cognitive justice and emancipatory social learning
- Creator
- Burt, Jane C, James, Anna
- Subject
- To be catalogued
- Date
- 2018
- Type
- text
- Type
- article
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/10962/392049
- Identifier
- vital:68717
- Identifier
- xlink:href="https://doi.org/10.1080/14767430.2018.1550312"
- Description
- This is an account of the emancipatory struggle that faces agents who seek to change the oppressive social structures associated with neo-liberalism. We begin by ‘digging amongst the bones’ of the calls for resistance that have been declared dead or assimilated/co-opted by neoliberal theorists. This leads us to unearth, then utilize, Paulo Freire’s Pedagogy of the Oppressed, Steve Biko’s Black Consciousness and Shiv Visvanathan's ideas; which are examples of Roy Bhaskar’s transformative dialectic. We argue, using examples, that cognitive justice – a concept common to each of our chosen theorists – is vital in enabling emancipatory social learning. By embracing cognitive justice, the agents gained confidence, which led to their increased ability to champion community and non-academic knowledge. It also uncovered structural tensions – attendant in neoliberalism – around privilege. By articulating these tensions, the participants were able to ‘come closer together’. Such processes, initiated by ensuring cognitive justice, are possible steps in achieving universal solidarity; which is likely to be a necessary step along the path of achieving emancipation.
- Format
- computer, online resource, application/pdf, 1 online resource (22 pages), pdf
- Publisher
- Taylor and Francis Online
- Language
- English
- Relation
- Journal of Critical Realism, Burt, J., James, A. and Price, L., 2018. A peaceful revenge: Achieving structural and agential transformation in a South African context using cognitive justice and emancipatory social learning. Journal of Critical Realism, 17(5), pp.492-513, Journal of Critical Realism volume 17 number 5 p. 492 2018 1572-5138
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- Closed Access
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Burt, Jane Caroline (Ms)
RU DST/NRF SARChI for Global Change Social Learning Systems Development: Transformative Learning and Green Skills Learning (ELRC)
RU Department of Education
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