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uBuntu and the law : African ideals and postapartheid jurisprudence / edited by Drucilla Cornell and Nyoko Muvangua.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Just ideas.
- Just Ideas
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Customary law--South Africa.
- Customary law.
- Law--South Africa--Philosophy.
- Law.
- Post-apartheid era--South Africa.
- Post-apartheid era.
- Ubuntu (Philosophy).
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xii, 466 pages)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Fordham University Press, 2012.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- This is the first comprehensive casePub to address the relationship of uBuntu to law. It also provides the most important critical articles on the use of uBuntu, both by the Constitutional Court and by other levels of the judiciary in South Africa. Although uBuntu is an ideal or value rooted in South Africa, its purchase as a performative ethic of the human goes beyond its roots in African languages. Indeed, this casePub helps break through some of the stale antinomies in the discussions of cultures and rights, because both the courts and the critical essays discuss uBuntu as not simply an indigenous or even African ideal but one that on its own terms calls for universal justification. uBuntu helps to expand the thinking of a modern legal systemGs commitment to universality by deepening discussions of what inclusion and equality actually mean in a postcolonial country. This book will be a crucial resource for anyone who is seriously grappling with human rights, postcolonial constitutionalism, and competing visions of the relations between law and justice.
- Contents:
- UBuntu, restorative justice, and the constitutional court
- uBuntu under the interim constitution: life, death, and uBuntu
- Horizontality, reconciliation, and uBuntu
- Amnesty, reconciliation, and uBuntu
- uBuntu, socioeconomic rights, and personhood
- uBuntu and entitlement
- uBuntu and key aspects of living : customary law
- uBuntu and the right to culture
- Towards the liberation and revitalization of customary law / Albie Sachs
- uBuntu and the law in South Africa / Yvonne Mokgoro
- A call for a nuanced constitutional jurisprudence : South Africa, uBuntu, dignity, and reconciliation / Drucilla Cornell
- Doing things with values : the case of uBuntu / Irma J. Kroeze
- Exploring uBuntu : tentative reflections / Drucilla Cornell and Karin van Marle
- Some thoughts on the uBuntu jurisprudence of the Constitutional Court / Narnia Bohler-Müller
- The reemergence of uBuntu : a critical analysis / Thino Bekker
- African customary law in South Africa : the many faces of Bhe v. Magistrate Khayelitsha / Chuma Himonga.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 0-8232-6912-4
- OCLC:
- 787845984
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