“A new animal”: student activism and the Kenyan state in an era of multiparty politics, 1991–2000

Melchiorre, Luke

doi:10.1080/17531055.2020.1832370

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“…Importantly, this largely anglophone western move has had a much longer tail across countries in South America, Africa and Asia, where student power is still closely linked with the politics of the students and is more organically connected to the movements to progress education towards consciousness-raising and equitable fair societies (Atiles-Osoria, 2013;Melchiorre, 2020;Tshishonga, 2019). Yet, even in these regions, a decay of student power as connected to student politics is occurring, particularly as partially democratised 91 states begin to capitulate to the hegemony of the Anglophone institutions and move student politics in universities toward political training spaces (Javid, 2019;Kuttig & Suykens, 2020;Snellinger, 2018;D.…”

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Student Activism in Higher Education: The politics of students’ role in hegemonic university change

Cornelius-Bell¹

2021

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Students are actively denied access to the tools of cultural change under hegemony. In recent history, student participation has risen at Flinders University, coupled with an increasing imperative for global democratic governance revisioning. This thesis makes several significant original contributions to knowledge in light of this change: it examines the largely unexplored landscape of student participation in governance through ethnography; it deploys an increasingly displaced methodological frame of Gramscian social science and philosophy of praxis; and, through its acknowledgement of the ongoing cultural significance of activism and hegemony, it summons the possibility for fundamentally repurposing higher education. Ultimately, the thesis highlights the necessity of repositioning democratic values at the heart of teaching and learning. It argues that universities must enable genuine participatory educative and researching potential for students, through partnership approaches, grassroots action and student governance representation. The thesis has profound ramifications for the future and purpose of higher education.

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Student Activism in Higher Education: The politics of students’ role in hegemonic university change

Cornelius-Bell¹

2021

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“…Furthermore, these also tended to go against the laws, student activists' order rules and code of ethics and deviate from decent moralities. Meanwhile, it is expected that, in staging such protests, student activists must avoid acts of violence, vandalism, and riots (Matthews, 2022;Melchiorre, 2020). In other words, students' protests must be staged properly within moral conduct and decent behaviours in proposing aspirations to the university leaders or the government in accordance with good and proper moral values (in line with the current rules and regulations).…”

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Analyses of moral values of student activists’ protest demonstrations in Sunan Kalijaga State Islamic University Yogyakarta

Maksudin

2023

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Protest demonstrations are legal according to Law of the Republic of Indonesia Number 9 of 1998 about Freedom to Express Opinions in Public. This study aims to comprehensively analyze the moral values of the student activists’ protest demonstrations in Sunan Kalijaga State Islamic University Yogyakarta regarding the causes, demands, and processions. The study was done using the principles of field research which employed the qualitative approach in the form of the case study method. The researcher holistically looked into the activities and processes of the students’ protest demonstrations. Data were elicited by several techniques, namely in-depth interviews, questionnaires, observations, and documentation. Data were analyzed by using the NVivo 12 Plus software. Findings show that student activists’ protest demonstrations generally focused on the single tuition fee policy and other campus and government policies which do not favor students and citizens. Students’ protest demonstrations in Sunan Kalijaga State Islamic University Yogyakarta carried along 28 good moral values and 15 bad moral values which means that students’ demonstrations had more good moral values than the bad ones. It can be concluded that it is not appropriate to judge students’ protest demonstrations to carry along only either good or bad moral values.

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Tribeless and democratic youth? Political attitudes of Kenyan university students toward ethnicity and democracy

Gilchrist

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Elischer

2022

Canadian Journal of African Studies / Revue canadienne des étud

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“A new animal”: student activism and the Kenyan state in an era of multiparty politics, 1991–2000

Cited by 4 publications

References 29 publications

Student Activism in Higher Education: The politics of students’ role in hegemonic university change

Student Activism in Higher Education: The politics of students’ role in hegemonic university change

Analyses of moral values of student activists’ protest demonstrations in Sunan Kalijaga State Islamic University Yogyakarta

Tribeless and democratic youth? Political attitudes of Kenyan university students toward ethnicity and democracy

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