Transformative Pedagogy as Academic Performance: #ShimlaPark as a Plane of Immanence. (April 2019)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Dick, Liezl; Kruger, Frans; Müller, Marguerite; Mockie, Angelo
• Is Part Of: Cultural studies, critical methodologies. Volume 19:Number 2(2019)
• Page Start: 84
• Page End: 90
• Publication Date: 2019-04
• Subjects: performative text -- assemblage -- arts-based research -- #ShimlaPark; Culture -- Research -- Periodicals; Popular culture -- Research -- Periodicals; 306.05
• DOI: 10.1177/1532708618807246
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 1532-7086

Abstract

In this performative text, we explore the events that unfolded around the #ShimlaPark incident on February 22, 2016, on the Bloemfontein campus of the University of the Free State (UFS), South Africa. The text consists of four voices; that of a student, an educator, theory, and the official report commissioned by the UFS after the #ShimlaPark incident. These voices are conceptualized as an assemblage of experience. We employ arts-based research as an affective event that enables us to generate new problems, to create new concepts that allow for the emergence of a different world.