AA 2014 Volume 46 Issue 3
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Administrative sociology and apartheid
(University of the Free State, 2014)Although sociological discourses are multiple and varied, with deeply critical versions challenging the auspices of apartheid, there is also a strand of what I call ‘administrative sociology’ that actively defined, ... -
These queer gardens: a South African story
(University of the Free State, 2014)Two white male Afrikaans gay academics decide to respond to a call for papers to be presented at a conference with the theme “Gardens of justice” in Stockholm, Sweden in 2012. In the course of their attempt to co-author ... -
A politics of human rights – the right to rights as universal right to politics?
(University of the Free State, 2014)Confronted by the charge of depoliticisation levelled at human rights frameworks and interventions, I investigate the possibility of a politics of human rights at the core of democratic politics. In doing so, I am guided ... -
Stop the illusory nonsense! Teaching transformative delict
(University of the Free State, 2014)In this article, I provide a few thoughts on what it means to teach law, specifically ‘law of delict’, ‘critically’, as a response to conservative legal culture, which, I believe, currently prevails in South African legal ... -
Legal educators – the peddler of precedent, the skill builder and the socially conscious knowledge generator
(University of the Free State, 2014)The time is rife to encourage law teachers to evaluate their individual subjective views of the law before embarking on another study of best-suited methodologies for modular teaching. This article does not aim to entertain ... -
Anthropology and development: culture, morality and politics in a globalised world
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Reflections on legacy, complicity, and legal education
(University of the Free State, 2014)I reflect on the relation between complicity and the legacy of South African jurisprudence and law, and tentatively consider continuances between the civil law tradition (Roman- Dutch common law) as well as present human ... -
Afrikaner nationalism, apartheid and the perversion of critique
(University of the Free State, 2014)In this article I investigate the relationship between Afrikaner nationalism, apartheid and philosophy in the context of the intellectual history of the University of the Free State. I show how two philosophers that were ... -
An ethical (anti-)constitutionalism? Transformation for a transfigured public
(University of the Free State, 2014)How do we critically engage South African constitutionalism today? This is the basic question that will animate this article. In order to investigate this, I will specifically look at the Constitution of the Republic of ... -
The inoperative community of law students: rethinking the foundations of legal culture
(University of the Free State, 2014)In this article I contemplate the possibility of a relationship between democracy and the democracy to come experienced from within an inoperative community of law students. The reason for this contemplation is to ascertain ... -
The lawyer as mapmaker and the spatial turn in jurisprudence
(University of the Free State, 2014)South African legal culture is characterised by formalist error. The transformative project calls for different intellectual tools and approaches to argumentation in law. The spatial turn, in law and the broader humanities, ... -
The crises in legal education
(University of the Free State, 2014)This article reflects on recent debates on legal education in South Africa. I argue that the value of legal education should not be indexed by how well it serves the needs and expectations of the legal profession and ... -
Law as a humanities discipline: transformative potential and political limits
(University of the Free State, 2014)Abstract not available