Towards an intellectual engagement with the #studentmovements in South Africa

The new student movement in South Africa turned yesterday one year old. It was on 9 March 2015 that Chumani Maxwele at UCT courageously staged his performative soiling of the statue of Cecil John Rhodes with human waste in an act (that was in planning for months) that would spark the #RhodesMustFall movement.

"Towards an intellectual engagement with the #studentmovements in South Africa" is a commentary that I wrote some weeks ago on the movement for Politikon, as an appreciation what the role of academics can be in relation to the #MustFall movements.

I hope you will enjoy reading it. Unfortunately it is not open access :( but I can send you a PDF Copy. The doi is: 10.1080/02589346.2016.1155138