Description: This book "offers an in-depth exploration of Nuraan Davids' experience as a Muslim 'coloured' woman, traversing a post-apartheid space. It centres on and explores a number of themes, which include her challenges not only as a South African citizen, and within her faith community, but as an academic citizen at a historically white university. The book is her story, an autoethnography, her reparation. By embarking on an autoethnography, she not only tries to change the way her story has been told by others, [but] transforms her 'sense of what it means to live' (Bhabha, 1994)"--
Brief description: Nuraan Davids is a Professor of Philosophy of Education in the Department of Education Policy Studies, Faculty of Education at Stellenbosch University, South Africa. Her primary research interests include democratic citizenship education, Islamic philosophy of education, and philosophy of higher education. She is a co-editor of the Routledge series, World Issues in the Philosophy and Theory of Higher Education; co-editor-in-chief of the Journal of Education in Muslim Societies; associate editor of the South African Journal of Higher Education; editorial board member of Ethics and Education. Recent books (with Y Waghid) include: Democratic Education as Inclusion (Rowman & Littlefield - Lexington Series, 2022); Academic Activism in Higher Education: A living philosophy for social justice (Springer, 2021); Teaching, Friendship & Humanity (Springer, 2020); Teachers Matter: Educational philosophy and authentic learning (Rowman & Littlefield - Lexington Series, 2020).
Review Quotes:
"This is the most powerful academic biography you will ever read on the politics of place in South Africa as revealed through the story of a human life." - Jonathan Jansen, Stellenbosch University