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The failure of student movements in higher education institutions in South Africa to critically engage the nature and the character of the 'democratic' transition in higher education has led to the questioning of the nature of student activism, activists and the academics of the new order. The substantive nature of our democracy which has no guarantees for transformative higher education system has since led to the adoption of neo-liberal policies that have perpetually excluded a certain sector of South African society. This oppression has been legitimised by failure of student movement and academics to uproot the current regimes of policy making which continue to hold captive the minds of a mass of people in a state of false consciousness. The current circumstances of "corporatised" higher education system makes it necessary now more than ever to begin to examine the issues of relativism as it relates to the questioning of current state of these institutions and student movements. South Africa needs student activist/intellectuals who are willing to participate in the auspices of the institution and the structure, and to transform it. Their task is to operate within time. However, the post 1994 era has left the student movement disgruntled and without direction. Student movements and their academic counter part have since been absorbed by the dominant ideology of the ruling elite. This has made transformation extremely difficult because of the materialism that this brings and a failure to engage the discourses of oppression with the goal of exploiting and deconstructing the dominant ideologies of subjection, betraying the scrutinizing role of a liberating education. This thesis seeks to argue that student movements, academies and academics have been defeated in an area where they should excel in the battle and struggle of ideas, for alternatives in search of a better society. / Thesis (M.A.) - University of KwaZulu-Natal, Durban, 2006.

I have presented in this thesis a selective, descriptive analysis of fifteen Indiana anti-war radicals in leadership roles during the spring of 1971. After placing the radicals within a specific social movement, I have described selected background characteristics of the radicals, their beliefs on various aspects of confrontation politics, their structural form for grouping themselves for confrontation, their participation in an attempted traffic stoppage in Washington, D.C. during the first week of May, 1971, and other sociological material related to these young radicals.I have concluded in the thesis, in part, that a “new breed” of radical was to be found in leadership roles during 1971. This new breed of radical was found to come from a distinctly middle class background.Finally, I looked at the radicals’ thoughts about the future of the anti-war movement in relation to their participation in the future of that movement.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Hawaii at Manoa, 2005. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 347-373). / Also available by subscription via World Wide Web / xiii, 373 leaves, bound ill. 29 cm

Thesis (M.A.)--University of Wyoming, 2007. / Title from PDF title page (viewed on Oct. 23, 2008). Includes bibliographical references (p. 102-110).

Thesis (M.A.)--Ohio State University, 2009. / Title from first page of PDF file. Includes vita. Includes bibliographical references (p. 92-98).

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Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Wisconsin--Madison, 1971. / Typescript. Vita. eContent provider-neutral record in process. Description based on print version record. Includes bibliographical references.