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The comeback of chieftaincy, custom and culture is one of the most
surprising features of post-apartheid South Africa. As democracy
dawned, support for traditional leaders rose not only in national
politics, but also in the villages of rural South Africa. Chiefs
were no longer considered relics of the past or puppets of the
apartheid regime; instead they were heralded as key figures in the
upcoming African Renaissance. Sekhukhune in the northern part of
South Africa had a tradition of resistance. The author has used the
example of this chieftaincy to consider much wider questions - what
was the relation between the formal legal and political recognition
of chieftaincy and its local insurgence? How are the local,
national and global interlinked in the creation of custom? Why did
the liberal ANC allow the chiefs to retain power over land, local
government and custom? What does this teach us about politics in
present-day Africa?
Increasingly, urban actors invoke human rights to address
inequalities, combat privatisation, and underline common
aspirations, or to protect vested (private) interests. The
potential and the pitfalls of these processes are conditioned by
the urban, and deeply political. These urban politics of human
rights are at the heart of this book. An international line-up of
contributors with long-term engagement in this field shed light on
these politics in cities on four continents and eight cities,
presenting a wealth of empirical detail and disciplinary
theoreticalisation perspectives. They analyse the 'city society',
the urban actors involved, and the mechanisms of human rights
mobilisation. In doing so, they show the commonalities in rights
engagement in today's globalised and often deeply unequal cities
characterised by urban law, private capital but also communities
that rally around concepts as the 'right to the city'. Most
importantly, the chapters highlight the conditions under which this
mobilisation truly contributes to social justice, be it concerning
the simple right to presence, cultural rights, accessible housing
or - in times of COVID - health care. Urban Politics of Human
Rights provides indispensable reading for anyone with a practical
or theoretical interest in the complex, deeply political, and at
times also truly promising interrelationship between human rights
and the urban. Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No
Derivatives 4.0 license.
Examines the role of customary law and 'traditional' authority in
contemporary South Africa. There is a surprising resurgence of
traditional authority, custom and culture in post-apartheid South
Africa, as part of a conscious African renaissance. Yet customary
law studies highlight the artificial origins of these 'traditional'
institutions. This book poses three questions: what is the relation
between the changing legal and socio-political position of
traditional authority and customary law in the new South Africa?
Why are they changing in this way? and, what does this teach us
about the interrelation between laws, politics and culture in the
post-modern world? BARBARA OOMEN is Assistant Professor of Law
& Development in the University of Amsterdam North America:
Palgrave; South Africa: University of KwaZulu-Natal Press
Cities increasingly base their local policies on human rights.
Human rights cities promise to forge new alliances between urban
actors and international organizations, to enable the 'translation'
of the abstract language of human rights to the local level, and to
develop new practices designed to bring about global urban justice.
This book brings together academics and practitioners at the
forefront of human rights cities and the 'right to the city'
movement to critically discuss their history and also the potential
that human rights cities hold for global urban justice.
Rights for Others is an empirical study of what happens when
international human rights are applied domestically in The
Netherlands. It tracks recent debates in Dutch society on
citizenship and the rights of immigrants, and analyses the shift
from the perception of human rights as a 'foreign policy concern'
to the slow processes of homecoming in what has traditionally been
a left-wing society, but now includes many more right-wing
political parties. Adopting an interdisciplinary approach, Oomen
combines insights from law, sociology and anthropology to explain
how rights gain significance in framing social and political
discussions. The book provides comprehensive coverage on relevant
constitutional law, legal culture and rights realization as well as
discussing case material on human rights education, polarization,
socio-economic rights, domestic violence and the rights of
minorities. This is an invaluable contribution to the global fields
of human rights and socio-legal studies for scholars and
researchers.
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