Academic Citizenship, Identity, Knowledge, and Vulnerability

Nuraan Davids is Professor of Philosophy of Education and the Chair of the Department of Education Policy Studies in the Faculty of Education at Stellenbosch University. Her research interests include philosophy of education; democratic citizenship education; and Islamic philosophy of education. She was a fellow of the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences at Stanford University (2020 -2021). 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, and an Editorial Board Member of Ethics and Education, and the Philosophy and Theory of Higher Education journal.  Her most recent books include Out of place: An autoethnography of postcolonial citizenship (African Minds, 2022);  Democratic education as inclusion (Rowman & Littlefield – Lexington Series, 2022, with Y. Waghid); and Academic Activism in higher education: A living philosophy for social justice (Springer, 2021, with Y. Waghid).

• Introduction: Academic conundrums.- Academic identities and citizenship.- Academic citizenship as an agonistic space.- Identities, citizenships, and vulnerabilities.- Diversity as vulnerability.- Academics as embodiments of knowledge.- Academic citizenship as curiosity.- The vulnerability of unlearning.- Identity and transformation.- Stories as reclamations of knowledge.- Responsibility and being other-wise.- Concluding reflections: Academic citizenship, collegiality, and trust.