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Narratives as a gateway to transitional justice: Reflections on research methodology by Matshaka, Chenai

“…In many ways transitional justice is a battle of narratives. Both at the conception and implementation stages, it is contested in part by different meanings of…”
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Social restitution: tools and actions to rehumanise and transform injustice by Swartz, Sharlene

“…Restitution has predominantly been described as a legal rather than a social action in international law, as well as in South Africa’s history of truth,…”
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Spectres of reparation in South Africa: an interview with Jaco Barnard-Naudé by De Vos, Pierre, Barnard-Naudé, Jaco

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Thinking about drugs histories and private purposes in South Africa by Waetjen, Thembisa

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Identity, diversity, and rhizomatic complexity by Olivier, Bert

“…This paper addresses the vexing question of identity in relation to diversity and ‘rhizomatic complexity’ – a phrase that signals its Deleuzo-Guattarian…”
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Incompleteness as a framework for convivial scholarship and practice in healing by Nyamnjoh, Francis B.

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English and/in Africa: reflections on the language question, Afropolitanism, and linguistic orientation six decades after the ‘African Writers Conference’ by Staphorst, Luan

“…This article offers a speculative reflection on the position of English as a language within the context of Africa - a question that continues to 'haunt'…”
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A decolonial reading of Bernstein’s sociology of education in transforming the university in South Africa by Hlatshwayo, Mlamuli Nkosingphile

“…In this paper, I reclaim Bernstein’s pedagogic device to think through and theorise higher education transformation and decolonisation in the global South. I…”
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“Philosophical suicide” during the climate crisis: how belief influences the response to climate change by Coetzee, Juan, Loubser, Ruth Ananka

“…When approaching the climate crisis, there appears to be a universal tendency towards philosophical suicide. When faced with the sheer scale of the problem at…”
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Narratives as a gateway to transitional justice by Chenai Matshaka

“…In many ways transitional justice is a battle of narratives. Both at the conception and implementation stages, it is contested in part by different meanings of…”
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Borrowing practices in modern revolution-making: from Marx’s The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte to Rancière’s The Names of History by Pauwels, Matthias

“…Marx’s The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte has served as a locus classicus for postmodern interpretations of Marxism’s contemporary legacy and relevancy…”
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Marcien Towa, father of Cameroonian Critical Theory: a comparison with Max Horkheimer by Bitang, Adoulou

“…In this paper, I examine the extent to which Marcien Towa (1931-2014) can be considered the Father of Cameroonian Critical Theory. In this regard, I compare…”
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A social constructivist understanding of culture for environmental justice and policy by Afolabi, Abiodun Paul

“…In addressing the environmental threats to cultural resources, some environmental ethicists have taken for granted the idea that culture has an essential…”
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On the proletarian public sphere and its contemporaneity: crises, class and the media by Mylonas, Yiannis

“…This article attempts a critical enquiry into contemporary politics and culture as characterized by a prolonged capitalist crisis and its concomitant economic,…”
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Culture industry 2.0: Africa, Global South, world by Latecka, Ewa, Du Toit, Jean, Swer, Gregory Morgan, Amiradakis, Mark Jacob

“…The term ‘culture industry’, as set forth by Adorno and Horkheimer in Dialectic of Enlightenment, describes the ongoing process whereby the forms of culture…”
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Self-realizing a lived existence in service of emancipation: Tsenay Serequeberhan’s activist hermeneutics by Sands, Justin

“…Through his own activistic hermeneutics, Serequeberhan crafts a philosophy which allows African(a) persons pathways to self-realization and self-emancipation…”
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In medias res: the diminishing of historical continuity in modern thought by te Water, Kara

“…Innovation and future predictions are discussed as the main goals of modern technology. Living in this empirical, modern world set on the future has the…”
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New radicalism – a call for discussion by Platform

“…This site is well established on Acta Academica and we are planning for the future by negotiating the borders within which we wish to debate through…”
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‘A love note to our future selves’: the coaching imperative in platform cultures by Kompatsiaris, Panos

“…This article looks at the imperative of life coaching on media platforms as a broader social technology and a technology of the self. Life coaching suggests…”
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The simultaneous atomisation and massification of neoliberal reason by Naidoo, Kiasha

“…Neoliberal reason is often defended for its supposed radical individualism. While critics of neoliberalism are right to problematise the atomising effects of…”
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