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excellence related to allocations and grants generated by the vii) poliTical economies
institutional cultures and NRF awards, consultants, as racially
produced by history reaffirmed in the present and projected Political economies refer to the circulation of political beliefs
into the future. We now have shifted from direct race-based and ideologies and social relations, particularly to power
designations to de-racialised designations to re-racialised dynamics that mutually constitute the production and con-
designations as far as universities are concerned. This is one sumption in the distribution of resources.
of the most significant weaknesses of our system at a systems
level.
social jusTice and human righTs programming

v) affecTive economies
In conclusion, Prof Keet reported that, together with VC Prof
Muthwa, he had written a book chapter (for the Brink book
Affective economies circulate emotions and effects. For ex-
published in 2021) on the 3-tiered conception of trans-
ample, how the white subject is presented as endangered
formation and had identified the 3rd tier as the weakest.
by imagined others whose proximity threatens to take some-
Prof Keet suggested we consider how to bring together
thing away from the subject (job security/wealth) and to take
the three tiers (see below) when developing the new ITP.
the subject’s place. Conversely, the anxiety of continued
subjugation by other means of the black subject circulates its
- First tier: Large-scale reconfiguration of the system
own sets of affects and effects.
- Second tier: Responses to global and local processes and
influences
vi) inTellecTual economies
- Third tier: Social justice and human rights programming
Intellectual economies safeguard the movement and pre-
The moderator thanked Prof Keet for locating the ITP per-
determined transfer of scholarly authority and credentialisa-
fectly and for bringing the complexity of the transformation
tion according to established institutional and sector-based
discourse, its challenges, and contestations to the fore,
rules that reproduce the social structure of the academy by
resulting in a firmer sense of how we understand the
regulating who has access to the games that set up the rules.
transformative university.
The monopoly of scientific competence is ensured so that the
agent is socially recognised to speak and act legitimately, even
if such competence is mythical in absolute scientific terms.

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