Lindokuhle Mandyoli
PhD Candidate & Associate Lecturer, Department of Political Studies, University of the Western Cape
Lindokuhle Mandyoli is an Associate Lecturer, Department of Political Studies, University of the Western Cape with research interests in the capital/race debate in South Africa, democratic constitutional hegemony and the intellectual history(ies) of the South African student movement. He is a recipient of the Centre for Humanities Research PhD Fellowship in the National Research Foundation’s Flagship for Critical African Humanities and the co-lead of the UNESCO Chair Project titled: Universities as Sites of Protection and Activism. He is also a recipient of the Mellon Writing Fellowship at the University of Minnesota’s Interdisciplinary Centre for the Study of Global Change (ICGC). In his PhD research, he is investigating the ways in which constitutional democratic hegemony inevitably reproduces different in form, but similar in essence, socio-political, socioeconomic and cultural problems that were produced by colonialism and apartheid. Drawing a comparison between the 1976 Uprisings and the 2015 #FeesMustFall movement in South Africa, he explores how hegemony manifests itself differently in both these moments, while under a consistent logic in two qualitatively different regimes. He is heavily involved in various working groups and projects featured here.