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Journal of Public Administration (JOPA)

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South African Public Administration: Who is the Public in Public Administration?

Author: FM Lucky Mathebula1

Affiliation: Tshwane University of Technology and The Thinc Foundation

Source: Journal of Public Administration, 2024-03-28 12:35:07

Accreditation: Department of Higher Education and Training (DHET)



Abstract: South African Public Administration: Who is the Public in Public Administration?

P/public A/administration1 has been subjected to extensive definitions, descriptions, explanations and theorisation over the years and since its acceptance as a distinct field of study. These have been based mainly on reproducing euro-western epistemologies and ontologies, thus privileging findings, conclusions, and consensuses of the academic-media-complexes dominant in those societies' contexts. Central to these theorisation endeavours have always been the knowledge power dynamics instructing scholars and the cultural context of the dominating scholarship, an omnipresent condition in the knowledge generation industry. Conceptually, and in tandem with the established decorum of scholarship and research, the referencing pool became stuck in the provinces of whoever (or whatever) was first in, first assigned, and first allotted with scien