Original Research - Special Collection: Spirit Rising Tracing Movements of Justice
Embodying human rights in #FeesMustFall? Contributions from an indecent theology
Lisa Grassow, Clint Le Bruyns
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Lisa Grassow, Theology and Development Programme, University of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa
Clint Le Bruyns, Theology and Development Programme, University of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa
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Abstract
This article focuses on the #FeesMustFall (FMF) movement and the question of a human rights culture. It provides evidence from the specific context of FMF at the University of KwaZulu-Natal, Pietermaritzburg, which exposes human rights abuses and violence to the dignity of protesting students. To advance a human rights culture within the higher education sector in the context of FMF, the article highlights the role of theology – ‘indecent theology’ (as espoused by Marcella Althaus-Reid) – in revealing the problem and promise of higher education institutions in the quest for a more liberating and responsible society. It is only through interrogating the narratives that sustain the current university structures – and continue to oppress the poor and the marginalised – that South Africa will be able to begin to construct a society that is respective of the rights of all.
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Religions vol: 10 issue: 5 first page: 310 year: 2019
doi: 10.3390/rel10050310