The #RhodesMustFall and #FeesMustFall student protests through the Kübler-Ross grief model. Issue 4 (4th July 2018)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Konik, I.; Konik, A.
• Is Part Of: Discourse. Volume 39:Issue 4(2018)
• Page Start: 575
• Page End: 589
• Publication Date: 2018-07-04
• Subjects: State apparatus -- assemblage -- essentialism -- desire -- mourning -- race; Education -- Periodicals; Education -- Australia -- Periodicals; 370.5
• DOI: 10.1080/01596306.2017.1288084
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 0159-6306

Abstract

ABSTRACT: This article explores the possibility that the recent #RhodesMustFall and #FeesMustFall student protests at South African universities may be partially underpinned by grief over a dying essentialist assemblage in the wake of the 2012 Marikana massacre – which saw the assemblage severed from the State Apparatus in a way that spelled its doom. Particular focus falls on how the related protests mirror the grief stages identified by Elisabeth Kübler-Ross, and the article concludes by reflecting on possible post-structural curricular interventions that may help to stabilize university operations in the country.