Social and Legal Theory in the Age of Decoloniality (Re-)Envisioning Pan-African Jurisprudence in the 21st Century / edited by Artwell Nhemachena, Tapiwa V. Warikandwa & Samuel K. Amoo.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Amoo, S. K., editor.

Warikandwa, Tapiwa V. (Victor), editor.

Nhemachena, Artwell, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Law--Africa--Philosophy.

Law.

Customary law--Africa.

Customary law.

Jurisprudence--Africa.

Jurisprudence.

Africa.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xvi, 491 pages)

Manufacture:

Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2018

Place of Publication:

Baltimore, Maryland : Project Muse, 2018

Summary:

Right from the enslavement era through to the colonial and contemporary eras, Africans have been denied their human essence - portrayed as indistinct from animals or beasts for imperial burdens, Africans have been historically dispossessed and exploited. Postulating the theory of global jurisprudential apartheid, the book accounts for biases in various legal systems, norms, values and conventions that bind Africans while affording impunity to Western states. Drawing on contemporary notions of animism, transhumanism, posthumanism and science and technology studies, the book critically interrogates the possibility of a jurisprudence of anticipation which is attentive to the emergent New World Order that engineers 'human beings to become nonhumans' while 'nonhumans become humans'. Connecting discourses on decoloniality with jurisprudence in the areas of family law, environment, indigenisation, property, migration, constitutionalism, employment and labour law, commercial law and Ubuntu, the book also juggles with emergent issues around Earth Jurisprudence, ecocentrism, wild law, rights of nature, Earth Court and Earth Tribunal. Arguing for decoloniality that attends to global jurisprudential apartheid., this tome is handy for legal scholars and practitioners, social scientists, civil society organisations, policy makers and researchers interested in transformation, decoloniality and Pan-Africanism.

Contents:

Identity, originality and hybridity in jurisprudence and social theory : an introduction / Artwell Nhemachena, Tapiwa V. Warikandwa & Samuel K. Amoo

Beyond Eurocentric human rights jurisprudence and towards animality? Humanoid robots and the decomposition of African humanism and personhood / Artwell Nhemachena & Esther Dhakwa

Colonialism, the theft of history and the quest for justice for Africa / Everisto Benyera

Revisiting traditional African land ownership practices using indigenous knowledge lenses : the case of the Haya in Tanzania / Theobald Frank Theodory

The man, human rights, transitional justice and African jurisprudence in the twenty-first century / Everisto Benyera, Oliver Mtapuri & Artwell Nhemachena

Re-discoursing jurisprudence for Africa in the 21st century : re-centring Africa's memory and re-memory through African-authored literary arts / Ruby Magosvongwe

The environment, mining and western interventionisms : towards a pan-Africanist jurisprudential model of justice in Africa / Felichesmi S. Lyakurwa

Towards a jurisprudential theory of migration, foot-looseness and nimble-footedness : the new world order or pan-Africanism? / Oliver Mtapuri, Artwell Nhemachena & Everisto Benyera

African law in comparative law : a case of undermining African jurisprudence and promoting a new world order agenda? / Tapiwa V. Warikandwa & Samuel K. Amoo

The jurisprudence of the Zimbabwean judiciary on the protection of the right to property with special reference to the fast track land "reform" programme and Operation Murambatsvina / Lovemore Chiduza

Indigenisation jurisprudence and the renewed fight against "fronting" to advance broad-based black economic empowerment in South Africa : an appraisal of the broad-based Black Economic Empowerment Amendment Act of 2013 / Tapiwa V. Warikandwa & Patrick C. Osode

Analysis of the Namibian superior courts' judgements on the action for adultery against a third party : the implications on African customary laws and jurisprudence / Eugene Lizazi Libebe

Africa, free trade jurisprudence and the trade-labour linkage proposals : a critique of the tripartite African Free Trade Area Agreement / Tapiwa V. Warikandwa

The unhu/ubuntu philosophy and constitutional jurisprudence in Zimbabwe : a critical appraisal of the legitimacy of "operation restore legacy" / Tapiwa V. Warikandwa, Artwell Nhemachena & Samuel K. Amoo.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9956-550-49-3

OCLC:

1048888592