This issue of Theoria marks a decade of democracy in South Africa. Invited to reflect on the process and challenge of building a modern liberal democracy and on progress towards social justice since 1994, the contributors have responded with detailed and in-depth analyses of a range of pertinent issues, from public institutions, national reform strategies, popular perceptions and moral responsibility to philosophical ideals, educational reforms, political participation and unrepudiated injustices. Beyond apartheid, beyond the Truth and Reconciliation Commission, and beyond party politics, greater and more inclusive social justice, if not immediately within reach, is certainly attainable: through the equalization and redistribution of access to resources, through reparations for injustices, through respect for rights and recognition of obligations, through compromise, sympathy, socialization and debate, and through making sense of change, both symbolically and practically. Most of all, justice will be served, and democracy advanced, by promoting, widening and multiplying spaces and opportunities for people to conceptualize and act upon social transformation in new and different ways.
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Ted Nannicelli
starting point for constructing an analogous “structure of antipathy.” Our issue is rounded out with four reviews of important and exciting new books, but Kjeldgaard-Christiansen's discussion of the cinematic construction of moral agency and moral
Everyday Suffering and the Abstract Time-Reckoning of Law
Reflections on the Allocation of Responsibility for an Asbestos Disaster in Italy
David Loher
moral responsibility. Second, it explores the contradictions between these ideas of moral responsibility and the allocation of legal responsibility in the trial. This allows us to examine how incommensurable temporalities connect and disconnect the
In Journal of Legal Anthropology
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The Responsibility to Prevent Future Harm
Anti-Mining Struggles, the State, and Constitutional Lawsuits in Ecuador
Laura Affolter
the legal dispute in the Los Cedros case. While the defendants put the state's responsibility to provide for its citizens in a material sense above all other responsibilities, the claimants conceptualised the state's moral responsibilities and duty of
In Journal of Legal Anthropology
- Published (Print):
- 01 Dec 2020
- Article Type:
- Research Article
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- 78–99
Enemies of the people
Theorizing dispossession and mirroring conspiracy in the Republic of Georgia
Katrine Bendtsen Gotfredsen
political decisions on economic gains and alliances rather than moral responsibilities and common goods. Hence, while the authorities of post-Rose Revolution Georgia were officially committed to transparency and the elimination of corruption, they were
Sharing Images, Spoiling Meanings?
Class, Gender, and Ethics in Visual Research with Girls
Janet Fink and Helen Lomax
participants’ voices and interests ( Sweetman 2009 ), an argument that is predicated on participants’ rights to have their contributions recognized and researchers’ moral responsibility to address historic imbalances of power between researchers and the
An Unpublished Manuscript by Durkheim
‘On the General Physics of Law and Morality, 4th Year of the Course, 1st Lecture, December 2, 1899, Course Outline: On Penal Sanctions’
Émile Durkheim, edited and translated by François Pizarro Noël, and Ronjon Paul Datta
therefore be studied in accordance with the corresponding species of sanctions, and we thus obtain the following divisions in the course: – Repressive sanctions and penal (and moral) responsibility – Restitutive sanctions and civil responsibility – Positive
COVID-19 as method
Managing the ubiquity of waste and waste-collectors in India
Tridibesh Dey
spaces. Gandhi himself regretted how fellow Indians would ‘throw out refuse or spit, without pausing to consider whether (they) are not inconveniencing the passer-by’ ( Parekh 1989: 49–50 ), linking the individual moral responsibility of maintaining clean
Sociology in the Garden
Beyond the Liberal Grammar of Contemporary Sociology
Nissim Mizrachi
morality and national laws. In other words, dignity has become the organizing principle of a universal social space where moral responsibility touches socially and geographically distant Others. Hence, dignity, unlike honor, draws its validity not from the
Philippine Prison Marriages
The Politics of Kinship and Women's Composite Agency
Sif Lehman Jensen
nation as they take on a moral responsibility to care for the men and in this way strengthen the relational ties between kin, on which the Muslim nation is founded. In this light, the women's nationalist sentiments, as illustrated in Sara and Amira
