Room 3.55, 6 Neville Alexander Building, Lover's Walk

Interests

Leigh-Ann’s research interests are in education and social justice, social movements as sites of knowledge production, the roles of education in resistance movements, histories of radical education and student resistance, and thinking about the figure of the intellectual and the teacher as an intellectual.

Stream

Adult, Community Education and Training (ACET)

Books and Special Journal Issues

• Gillespie, K. and Naidoo, L-A. eds. (2019). #MustFall: The South African Student Movement and the Politics of Time. South Atlantic Quarterly: Against the Day. Duke University Press: Durham.
• Naidoo, L-A, Gamedze, A, and Magano, T. eds. (August 2017). Publica[c]tion. Self-published broadsheet. 

Journal articles

• Gillespie, K. & Naidoo, L.A. Against Naïve Autonomy: Critiquing the Policing of South African University Campuses. In The Radical History Review, Abusable Past, August, 2022. 
• Gillespie, K. & Naidoo, L.A. Abolition pedagogy: forcefields of critique. In Critical Times, 4:2, August, 2021, pp. 284-312.
• Naidoo, L.A. (April 2017). Memoire of The Journey Across Apartheid Landscapes: From South Africa to Gaza.Decolonization, Indigeneity, Education & Society, special issue on Palestine.
• Naidoo, L-A. (2016) We Shall Not be Moved or Led Astray: The Emergence of the 2015 Student Movement. New Agenda: South African Journal of Social and Economic Policy, Issue 60, Fourth Quarter 2016.
• Naidoo, L-A. (2015) The Role of Radical Pedagogy in the South African Students Organisation and the Black Consciousness Movement in South Africa, 1968–1973. In Education as Change Vol. 19, Issue. 2, 2015

Book chapters

• Naidoo, L-A. (2021). A Women’s Boat to Gaza – the challenge of international solidarity. In Lewis, D. and Baderoon, G. (eds) Surfacing: On Being Black and Feminist in Southern Africa. Wits University Press: Johannesburg, pp. 241-255.
• Naidoo, L-A. (2021). The Big Ideas Book. Equal Education Publishers: Cape Town.
• Naidoo, L-A. & Gamedze, A. (2020). The mustfall mo(ve)ments and Publica[c]tion: Reflections on collective knowledge production in South Africa. In Vally, S. & Choudry, A. The University and Social Justice: Struggles Across the Globe. Pluto Press, pp. 185-200.
• Naidoo, L-A. (2017). Women’s Boat to Gaza: International Solidarity Mission. In von Kotze, A. and Walters, S. (eds.)Forging Solidarity: Popular Education at Work. Sense Publishers: Rotterdam.
• Naidoo, L-A. (2017) The ‘Hidden’ Curriculum of South African Sport in Ballantine, C., Chapman, M., Erwin, K. and Mare, G (eds) Living Together, Living Apart? The making of a future South Africa. UKZN Press: Durban
• Naidoo, L-A. (2016). Contemporary Student Politics in South Africa: The Rise of the Black-led Student Movements of #RhodesMustFall and #FeesMustFall in 2015. In Nieftagodien, N. (ed) New Narratives of Youth Struggle. Wits University Press: Johannesburg.

Other (commission inputs; creative outputs)

• Vally, S., Motala, E., Naidoo, L-A., Hlatshwayo, M. and Maharajh, R., Z. Marawu. Submission to the Higher Education and Training Commission (Fees Commission), 26 May 2016. 
• Fulan Fulan Collective (with Dr Ahmed Veriava, Dr. Kelly Gillespie, Asher Gamedze, Dr. Koni Benson, Dylan Vally and Khalid Shamis), made a 60-minute short film titled Re/Distribute: Three Radical Economists on (Post)-Apartheid 
• The Intercept Participated in the film ‘You are not a loan’ where activists and academics discussed the crisis of higher education and the growing movement to cancel student debt and commit to education as a public good (7 February 2020, Los Angeles). 

Online Media Articles

• Naidoo, L-A. The State of the Nation. Speaking Truth to Power. The Steve Biko Transformative Education Project Online Newsletter, Vol. 1 Issue 1, February 2017.
• Naidoo, L-A. Women’s Boat to Gaza – International Solidarity Freedom Flotilla Mission, Amandla Magazine, Issue 49/50, December 2016.
• Naidoo, L-A. Soweto Anniversary: is our 1976 moment still to come? International Viewpoint Online Magazine, IV Online Magazine, June 2016. 
• Naidoo, L-A. Soweto Anniversary: is our 1976 moment still to come? Amandla Magazine, Issue 46, June 2016. 
• Naidoo, L-A. The Violence of Universities – A reflective conversation by students at the Neville Alexander Commemorative Conference. Inkamva Newsletter, 2016.
• Vally, S., Motala, E., Naidoo, L-A., Hlatshwayo, M. and Maharajh, R. (2016). How to take free higher education from pipe dream to reality. In The Conversation. Accessed 28 June 2016. 
• Vally, S., Motala, E., Naidoo, L-A., Hlatshwayo, M. and Maharajh, R. (2016). Quality, Free Education is necessary – and possible. In The Conversation. Accessed 9.31pm Friday, 4 March 2016. 
• Naidoo, L-A. Building a Movement: Cross-Class Solidarity, in Workers World News Issue 97, December 2015: Alternatives to Globalisation.
• Naidoo, L-A. (2015) Needing to learn: #RhodesMustFall and the decolonisation of the university. Independent Thinking (2nd edition). November 2015, Pretoria: Department of Higher Education and Training. 
• Naidoo, L-A. Open Letter to Barney Pityana on the Rhodes Must Fall Movement, Daily Maverick, 14 April 2015. 

Magazine Articles

• Naidoo, L-A. Women’s Boat to Gaza – International Solidarity Freedom Flotilla Mission, Amandla Magazine, Issue 49/50, December 2016.
• Naidoo, L-A. Soweto Anniversary: is our 1976 moment still to come? Amandla Magazine, Issue 46, June 2016. 
• Naidoo, L-A. The Violence of Universities – A reflective conversation by students at the Neville Alexander Commemorative Conference. Inkamva Newsletter, 2016.
• Naidoo, L-A. Building a Movement: Cross-Class Solidarity, in Workers World News Issue 97, December 2015: Alternatives to Globalisation.