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Tshepo Madlingozi | Social movements and the 'decolonial turn' in constitutional theory

Tshepo Madlingozi received his PhD degree from Birkbeck, University of London. He is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Jurisprudence, University of Pretoria. He is also a Research Associate in the Chair for Critical Studies in Higher Education Transformation at Nelson Mandela University. ------------------------------------------------------ The Seminar Series is called "Ukutshintshwa kweendlela/[Re] Directions" and is organized by the Chair for Critical Studies in Higher Education Transformation (CriSHET) at the Nelson Mandela University, South Africa. ______________________________ This seminar took place at the Nelson Mandela University, Bird Street Campus, Art Gallery, Drawing Room, on Friday, 15 March 2019. ----------------------------------------------- ABSTRACT The decolonisation scholarship is an inchoate scholarship that is still working through gaps, contradictions and lack of methodological exactitude. More importantly, 'decolonial scholars' are not at all clear about which political subject(s) or constituent power(s) could usher in a post-colonial or post-conquest era. This lack of political strategic thinking has led to the appropriation of 'decolonial' and decolonisation discourses by university managers, careerist academics, and advertisers. In this talk, I return to "Legal academics and progressive politics in South Africa: Moving beyond the ivory tower" (Madlingozi: 2006) to advance three provocations: (i) decolonisation is always a disruptive phenomenon; (ii) decolonisation scholars ought to move beyond the ivory tower if they are serious about contributing to the decolonisation of the law, society and the polity; and (iii) certain social movements of impoverished people gave been engaged in what we can call 'decolonisation from below'. There is much to learn from these movements. In this regard, I will focus on the disruptive struggle of Abahlali baseMjondolo with specific reference to how this movement of shack-dwellers has sought to disrupt and decolonise the law, society, and hegemonic epistemologies and ways of being in the world