South Africa's Universities: A Crisis of Identity.
South Africa's public universities have trodden a long and winding path over the last century shaped by vastly different political environments. In the last 30 years they have experienced continuous instability and what can be considered the loss of social ownership. Being global and local in scale,...
| Publicado en: | Social Research Vol. 92; no. 2; pp. 379 - 406 |
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Johns Hopkins University Press
Summer2025
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