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Record Nr.

UNINA9910464388703321

Autore

Cornell Drucilla

Titolo

Law and revolution in South Africa : uBuntu, dignity, and the struggle for constitutional transformation / / Drucilla Cornell

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York : , : Fordham University Press, , 2014

©2014

ISBN

0-8232-5760-6

0-8232-5758-4

0-8232-5761-4

0-8232-6113-1

0-8232-5759-2

Edizione

[First edition.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (224 p.)

Collana

Just ideas

Disciplina

342.68

Soggetti

Constitutional law - South Africa

Respect for persons - Law and legislation - South Africa

Customary law - South Africa

Ubuntu (Philosophy)

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Includes index.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (pages 185-208) and index.

Nota di contenuto

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.

Sommario/riassunto

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.