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Law and revolution in South Africa : uBuntu, dignity, and the struggle for constitutional transformation / Drucilla Cornell.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Cornell, Drucilla, author.
- Series:
- Just ideas.
- Just ideas
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Constitutional law--South Africa.
- Constitutional law.
- Respect for persons--Law and legislation--South Africa.
- Respect for persons.
- Customary law--South Africa.
- Customary law.
- Ubuntu (Philosophy).
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (224 p.)
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Fordham University Press, 2014.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- The relation between law and revolution is one of the most pressing questions of our time. As one country after another has faced the challenge that comes with the revolutionary overthrow of past dictatorships, how one reconstructs a new government is a burning issue. South Africa, after a long and bloody armed struggle and a series of militant uprisings, negotiated a settlement for a new government and remains an important example of what a substantive revolution might look like. The essays collected in this book address both the broader question of law and revolution and some of the specific issues of transformation in South Africa.
- Contents:
- Is technology a fatal destiny? : Heidegger's for South Africa and all "developing" countries
- Socialism or radical democratic politics? : on Laclau and Mouffe
- Dignity violated : rethinking AZAPO through uBuntu
- Which law, whose humanity? : the significance of policulturalism in the Global South
- Living customary law and the law : does custom allow for a woman to be Hosi?
- uBuntu, pluralism, and the responsibility of legal academics
- Rethinking ethical feminism through uBuntu
- Is there a difference that makes a difference between dignity and uBuntu?
- Where dignity ends and uBuntu begins : a response by Yvonne Mokgoro and Stuart Woolman.
- Notes:
- Includes index.
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 185-208) and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 9780823257607
- 0823257606
- 9780823257584
- 0823257584
- 9780823257614
- 0823257614
- 9780823261130
- 0823261131
- 9780823257591
- 0823257592
- OCLC:
- 1175620917
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