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The Courtroom as a Space of Resistance - Reflections on the Legacy of the Rivonia Trial (Hardcover, New Ed)
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The Courtroom as a Space of Resistance - Reflections on the Legacy of the Rivonia Trial (Hardcover, New Ed)
Series: Critical Studies in Jurisprudence
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Fifty years before his death in 2013, Nelson Mandela stood before
Justice de Wet in Pretoria's Palace of Justice and delivered one of
the most spectacular and liberating statements ever made from a
dock. In what came to be regarded as "the trial that changed South
Africa", Mandela summed up the spirit of the liberation struggle
and the moral basis for the post-Apartheid society. In this
blistering critique of Apartheid and its perversion of justice,
Mandela transforms the law into a sword and shield. He invokes it
while undermining it, uses it while subverting it, and claims it
while defeating it. Wise and strategic, Mandela skilfully
reimagines the courtroom as a site of visibility and hearing,
opening up a political space within the legal. This volume returns
to the Rivonia courtroom to engage with Mandela's masterful
performance of resistance and the dramatic core of that
transformative event. Cutting across a wide-range of critical
theories and discourses, contributors reflect on the personal,
spatial, temporal, performative, and literary dimensions of that
constitutive event. By redefining the spaces, institutions and
discourses of law, contributors present a fresh perspective that
re-sets the margins of what can be thought and said in the
courtroom.
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