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An integrated analytical framework for analysing expansive learning in improved cook stove practice:

Authors: Jalasi, Experencia Madalitso
Date: 2020
Language: English
Type: text , article
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/149043 , vital:38798 , https://doi.org/10.1016/j.lcsi.2020.100414
Description: This paper reveals relationships between four analytical frameworks, boundary interaction, reflexivity, transformative agency, and Sannino's reformulated Vygotskian double stimulation model in an Integrated Analytical Framework (IAF) used to analyse expansive learning processes via Boundary Crossing Change Laboratory Workshops in the development of will and volitional actions. I show how transformation emerges from expansive learning processes using two Transformative Pathways in Improved Cook Stove (ICS) practice in Chapita Village case study in Malawi. Introduction of ICSs in the traditional cooking practice generated conflict of motives within subjects of interacting activity systems. I used Cultural Historical Activity Theory (CHAT) to identify and analyse the conflict of motives using socio-cultural historical analysis and analysis of contradictions around learning, promotion, and utilisation of the ICS.
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Environment and sustainability education research as policy engagement: (re-) invigorating ‘politics as potentia’ in South Africa

- Lotz-Sisitka, Heila, Rosenberg, Eureta, Ramsarup, Presha

Authors: Lotz-Sisitka, Heila , Rosenberg, Eureta , Ramsarup, Presha
Date: 2020
Language: English
Type: text , article
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/158230 , vital:40164 , https://0-doi.org.wam.seals.ac.za/10.1080/13504622.2020.1759511
Description: Using a meta-review approach organized historically in relation to critical policy incidents, this paper critically reviews the process of developing and (re) invigorating Environment and Sustainability Education (ESE) (policy) research as ESE policy engagement over a 30+ year period in a rapidly transforming society, South Africa. It offers an example of long term policy-research meta-review in a context of policy flux. It adds to a body of international ESE policy studies that are seeking to understand and develop the ESE research/policy interface as this relation emerges under more complex conditions. In particular, we respond to the finding in the systematic review of ESE policy research undertaken by Aikens, McKenzie and Vaughter (2016) which reports a geographic under-representation of Africa (amongst other places) in ESE policy studies, and González-Gaudiano (2016, 118)’s insight that ESE policy research in current neo-liberally dominated political conditions and as political process, is essentially an “open, unsteady, incomplete, and relational process”.
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Date Issued: 2020

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Another world is possible: the socialist mural in Luanda as Visual Anticipation of a New Socialist Society. We travel the SpaceWay-Black Imagination, Fragments and Diffractions

- Siegert, Nadine

Authors: Siegert, Nadine
Date: 2019
Language: English
Type: text , book
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/146309 , vital:38514 , ISBN 9783960915300
Description: Book abstract. From the visual politics of the FRELIMO-liberation script in Mozambique via the brooms and spoons of Le Balai Citoyen in Burkina Faso, to the updating of images from past revolutions on Twitter and Facebook, often in the diaspora – images play a key role in the envisioning of futures and social utopia. And more than that: Revolutions, understood as moments of radical social and cultural change, are driven by images, as empirical investigations on- and offline show. But what actually constitutes the 'seismographic power' of images, and the sustainability of icons from past ruptures in terms of radicalism, such as the portraits of Burkina Faso's and Mozambiques first presidents' Thomas Sankara and Samora Machel?.
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Date Issued: 2019

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Shifting contexts: contemporary South African art in changing times

- Ntombela, N

Authors: Ntombela, N
Date: 2019
Language: English
Type: text , book
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/146200 , vital:38504 , ISBN 9781869143398 , https://books.google.co.za/books?id=xZlAjySD5-cCandq=Tribing+and+Untribing+the+Archive:+Identity+and+the+Material+Record+in+Southern+KwaZulu-Natal+in+the+Late+Independent+and+Colonial+Periodsdq=Tribing+and+Untribing+the+Archive:+Identity+and+the+Material+Record+in+Southern+KwaZulu-Natal+in+the+Late+Independent+and+Colonial+Periodsl=ensa=Xved=0ahUKEwjJ3oOGgcDpAhVuURUIHQyoAnIQ6AEIJzAA
Description: Book abstract. The pernicious combination of tribe and tradition continues to tether modern South Africans to ideas about the region's remote past as primitive, timeless, and unchanging. Any hunger for knowledge or understanding of the past before European colonialism remains to a significant degree unsated in the face of a narrowly prescribed archive and repugnant, but insidiously resilient, stereotypes. These volumes track how the domain of the tribal and traditional came to be sharply distinguished from modernity, how it was denied a changing history and an archive, and was endowed instead with a timeless culture. They also offer strategies for engaging with the materials differently-from the interventions effected in contemporary artworks to the inserting of nameless, timeless objects of material culture into histories of individualized and politicized experience. The two volume set make this archive of material culture visible as an archival resource. They also seek to spring the identity trap, releasing the material from pre-assigned identity positions as tribal into settings that enable them to be used as resources for thinking critically about identity.
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Date Issued: 2019

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Challenges and curriculum transformation in the higher education sector in South Africa: a case study in WASH to improve the training of pharmacists

- Tandlich, Roman, Ngqwala, Nosiphiwe P, Boshoff, Aileen, Madikizela, Phindile, Srinivas, Sunitha C, Pyle, Desmond M, Oosthuizen, Rene

Authors: Tandlich, Roman , Ngqwala, Nosiphiwe P , Boshoff, Aileen , Madikizela, Phindile , Srinivas, Sunitha C , Pyle, Desmond M , Oosthuizen, Rene
Date: 2018
Language: English
Type: text , article
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/76858 , vital:30631 , https://doi.org/10.2478/atd-2018-0001
Description: South Africa is a member state of the “BRICS” bloc (BRICS2017.org, 2017) and the G20 group of the 20 nations/economic blocs, which between them account for the majority of the world’s trade and economic activity. It faces many developmental challenges which are mirrored in its higher education sector. In this article, the authors seek to provide an overview of the challenges that South African higher education faces in the achievement of the developmental goals of the country. The focus of this paper is a case study in WASH (water, sanitation and hygiene) to improve context-specific responses that trains pharmacists on knowledge and skills.
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Date Issued: 2018

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New morphological information on, and species of placoderm fish Africanaspis (Arthrodira, Placodermi) from the Late Devonian of South Africa

- Gess, Robert W, Trinajstic, Kate M

Authors: Gess, Robert W , Trinajstic, Kate M
Date: 2017
Language: English
Type: text , article
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/72701 , vital:30101 , https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0173169
Description: Here we present a new species of placoderm fish, Africanaspis edmountaini sp. nov., and redescribe Africanaspis doryssa on the basis of new material collected from the type locality of Africanaspis. The new material includes the first head shields of Africanaspis doryssa in addition to soft anatomy for both taxa. Hitherto Africanaspis was entirely described from trunk armour and no record of body and fin outlines had been recorded. In addition the first record of embryonic and juvenile specimens of Africanaspis doryssa is presented and provides a growth series from presumed hatchlings to presumed adults. The presence of a greater number of juveniles compared to adults indicates that the Waterloo Farm fossil site in South Africa represents the first nursery site of arthrodire placoderms known from a cold water environment. The preservation of an ontogenetic series demonstrates that variation within the earlier known sample, initially considered to have resulted from ontogenetic change, instead indicates the presence of a second, less common species Africanaspis edmountaini sp. nov. There is some faunal overlap between the Waterloo Farm fossil site and faunas described from Strud in Belgium and Red Hill, Pennsylvania, in north America, supporting the concept of a more cosmopolitan vertebrate fauna in the Famennian than earlier in the Devonian.
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Date Issued: 2017

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Across developmental state and social compacting: the peculiar case of South Africa

- Fine, Ben

Authors: Fine, Ben
Date: 2016
Subjects: Economic development -- South Africa South Africa -- Economic conditions National Development Plan -- South Africa South Africa -- Social policy Economic development -- Political aspects -- South Africa
Language: English
Type: Book , Text
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/3082 , vital:20367 , ISBN 9780868106090
Description: This paper is concerned with the shifting fortunes of the Developmental State Paradigm (DSP) and the Social Compacting Paradigm (SCP) and, with some reference to South Africa, how they do or do not have continuing presence and relevance. For each, there is a dual trajectory in terms of an evolving intellectual content, on the one hand, and an evolving set of global and national circumstances on the other. I show that both paradigms have increasingly diverged from the material realities that they are intended to confront. This is primarily because of the neglect of financialisation as the key characteristic of the past thirty years, which itself underpins neo-liberalism. Whilst, in the post-war boom, both developmentalism and neo-corporatism offered some purchase on material realities and the prospects for policymaking, this has been eroded or, more exactly, transformed by financialisation. Unless the latter is satisfactorily addressed, neither development nor compacting can be expected to succeed, or be progressive, in any meaningful sense.
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Date Issued: 2016

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Allopatric speciation in the flightless Phoberus capensis (Coleoptera: Trogidae) group, with description of two new species

- Strümpher, Werner P, Sole, Catherine L, Villet, Martin H, Scholtz, Clarke H

Authors: Strümpher, Werner P , Sole, Catherine L , Villet, Martin H , Scholtz, Clarke H
Date: 2016
Subjects: To be catalogued
Language: English
Type: text , book chapter
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/442730 , vital:74028 , ISBN , https://brill.com/view/journals/ise/47/2/article-p149_4.xml
Description: The name Phoberus capensis (Scholtz) is applied to a small flightless, keratinophagous beetle endemic to the Cape Floristic Region of South Africa. Its gross distribution stretches from roughly 1000 km from the Cederberg (32°24’22” S, 19°04’50” E) to Grahamstown (33°20’07” S, 26°32’50” E). The populations are spatially discrete, restricted to relict forests of the southern Cape and disjunct high montane refugia of the Cape Fold Mountains. We test the hypothesis that there is more than one distinct species nested within the name P . capensis . Phylogenetic relationships among populations were inferred using molecular sequence data. The results support three distinct evolutionary lineages, which were also supported by morphological characters. Divergence time estimates suggest Pliocene-Pleistocene diversification. Based on these results, it is suggested that the P. capensis lineage experienced climatically-driven allopatric speciation with sheltered Afrotemperate forests and high mountain peaks serving as important refugia in response to climatic ameliorations. The P. capensis complex thus represents a speciation process in which flight-restricted populations evolved in close allopatry, possibly as recently as the Pleistocene. Two divergent and geographically distinct lineages are described as novel species: The new species, P . disjunctus sp. n. and P . herminae sp. n., are illustrated by photographs of habitus and male aedeagi.
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Date Issued: 2016

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Transformative learning and individual adaptation

- Kronlid, David O, Lotz-Sisitka, Heila

Authors: Kronlid, David O , Lotz-Sisitka, Heila
Date: 2014
Subjects: To be catalogued
Language: English
Type: text , book chapter
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/437147 , vital:73347 , ISBN 978-1-137-42804-2 , https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137428042_4
Description: The first part of this chapter explores learning as a Capability to transformatively engage with the world in a climate change context. It draws on previous work that shows that modern as well as indigenous knowledge systems are being affected by climate change. There is no doubt that for societies to adapt to climate change, there is a need for substantive transformative learning, as people everywhere will need to learn new values, practices, relations, and new ways of being and becoming. Such learning on a societal scale has occurred before—as humans adapted to the emergence of the Industrial Revolu-tion, for example. However, the transformation in the climate change adaptation context in many ways is in response to maladaptations that emerged from previous massive societal transformation processes, making this complex to navigate. It is also well known that climate change is leaving many people insecure and highly vulnerable to climate change impacts; it is affecting us all, but the impacts are uneven (Field et al. 2014), requiring different kinds of transformative learning processes in different places and contexts. In this chapter, we therefore propose that, under climate change conditions, we view learning as a key Capability in climate adaptation contexts.
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Date Issued: 2014

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A maturing manifesto: the constitutionalisation of children’s rights in South African jurisprudence 2007-2012

- Sloth-Nielsen, Julia, Kruuse, Helen

Authors: Sloth-Nielsen, Julia , Kruuse, Helen
Date: 2013
Language: English
Type: text , article
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/68972 , vital:29344 , http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/15718182-02102005
Description: Pre-print , This article represents the next in a series of five-year overviews of children’s rights in the courts in South Africa. Using the Convention on the Rights of the Child and the African Charter on the Welfare of Children as a point of departure, the study suggests that it is in the public sphere that children’s rights have had their most impact in the period under review. The article highlights eight areas of distinction in this five-year period: these include judicial approval of resource mobilisation for the fulfilment of children’s rights, emphasis on the quality of and standards in education; the development of innovative remedies to deal with unreasonable state measures affecting children, and an increasing focus on the right to dignity of the child. The authors conclude that the scope of the cases cited points to the growing insertion of children’s rights considerations in increasingly diverse areas of legal interaction. Furthermore, the authors posit that the CRC and ACRWC – together with non-binding sources of international law – have substantively informed and enriched the jurisprudence of South African courts.
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Date Issued: 2013

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Developing principles for research on young women and abortion

- Macleod, Catriona I

Authors: Macleod, Catriona I
Date: 2013
Subjects: To be catalogued
Language: English
Type: text , book chapter
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/434384 , vital:73053 , ISBN 9781919895581 , https://rowman.com/ISBN/9789280812275/Jacketed-Women-Qualitative-Research-Methodologies-on-Sexualities-and-Gender-in-Africa
Description: Soon after the first democratic elections in South Africa in 1994, the Choice on Termination of Pregnancy (CTOP) Act of 1996, which legalised abortion for the first time, was passed. Women may now request abortions up to the twelfth week of pregnancy. After this, abortions may still be performed but under specified conditions, for instance, if continued pregnancy will significantly affect the woman’s social or economic circumstances. The Act also promotes the provision of non-mandatory counselling before and after abortions are performed. Minors are counselled to notify their parents or guardian but do not require consent for an abortion. Since the introduction of the CTOP, a number of studies have been conducted on abortion in South Africa. Many have taken a health-related focus, for example, studies on the quality of care provided by midwives (Dickson-Tetteh and Billings 2002); profiles of women seeking abortions (Ramonate, Hiemstra, De Coning and Nel 2001); attitudes, beliefs and experiences of health providers (Buga 2002; Da Costa and Donald 2003); the cost of termination of pregnancy services (Reproductive Rights Alliance 2000); prevalence of morbidity in termination of pregnancies (Jewkes, Brown, Dickson-Tetteh, Levin and Rees 2002); the proportion of pregnancies that end in termination of pregnancy (Buchmann, Mensah and Pillay 2002); and impediments in the provision of services (Engelbrecht, Pelser, Ngwena and Van Rensburg 2000).
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Date Issued: 2013

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The economics of greening the Grahamstown National Arts Festival in South Africa

- Dobson, Blaise, Snowball, Jeanette D

Authors: Dobson, Blaise , Snowball, Jeanette D
Date: 2012
Language: English
Type: text , article
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/71445 , vital:29851 , https://hdl.handle.net/10520/EJC132010
Description: The article analyses the broad history underpinning the notion of sustainable development and its context within the events industry in South Africa. It explores the willingness of festival-goers to pay for a hypothetical recycling programme to reduce the negative externalities of the Festival. Results show that festival-goers were, on average, willing to pay an additional R2.30 per "green" ticket to fund the proposed programme. A statistical regression was used to explore the determinants of willing-to-pay. If applied to all tickets, the total willing-to-pay amount far exceeded the actual cost of the recycling programme.
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Date Issued: 2012

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NUMSA Organising Strategy Conference: Ranburg-Johannesburg, 23rd-25th November 2011

- National Union of Metalworkers of South Africa

Authors: National Union of Metalworkers of South Africa
Date: 2011-11-23
Subjects: Uncatalogued
Language: English
Type: text , pamphlet
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/104384 , vital:32376
Description: This document is titled Numsa Organising, Campaigns and Collective Bargaining Strategy. It is also referred to as OCCB Strategy or simply Organising Strategy. The first draft was circulated in 2010 following the National Organising Strategy Workshop. The second draft was presented to the Mid-year 2011 Central Committee. This is Third Draft. This draft takes into account recent developments and some of the lessons drawn from the visit to Canada by the GS, OCCB HOD, National Motor Sector Coordinator and National Engineering Sector Coordinator. We use the phrase “some of the lessons” because two reports concerning experiences from the North American visit are available.
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Date Issued: 2011-11-23

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The problems of proving actual or apparent bias: an analysis of contemporary developments in South Africa

- Okpaluba, Chuks, Juma, Laurence

Authors: Okpaluba, Chuks , Juma, Laurence
Date: 2011
Language: English
Type: text , article
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/127498 , vital:36017 , https://doi.org/10.17159/1727-3781/2011/v14i7a2616
Description: This article takes a critical look at the divergent approaches of courts in constructing the meaning of actual and apparent bias in adjudicative contexts. It argues that while proving actual bias on the part of an adjudicator may not always be easy and parties often revert to apprehended bias, an allegation of bias in any adjudication process is a matter that courts take very seriously. This notwithstanding, the courts have failed to consistently demarcate the necessary elements and threshold of proof that complainants must overcome to secure a successful challenge of decisions based on adjudicative impartiality. Upon critical evaluation of the decisions on the subject so far rendered, this article suggests that the pattern which has seemingly emerged is that which weighs the allegations of bias against the presumption of impartiality and the requirements of the double reasonableness test.
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Date Issued: 2011

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Abahlali baseMjondolo and struggle for the city in Durban, South Africa

- Pithouse, Richard, 1970-

Authors: Pithouse, Richard, 1970-
Date: 2009
Language: English
Type: Article
Identifier: vital:6208 , http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1008578
Description: The racialised regulation of space under apartheid was increasingly undone by insurgent popular action from the late 1970s. After apartheid a technocratic agenda that reduced the urban crisis to a housing crisis successfully depoliticised the urban question. At the same time the state made often violent attempts to reinscribe certain aspects of apartheid spatial logic by forcibly removing shack dwellers living in well located suburbs to tiny houses, and then later ‘transit camps’, in peripheral ghettoes. However from 2004 there was a remarkable sequence of popular protest against local governments across the country. An autonomous shack dweller’s movement, Abahlali baseMjondolo, emerged from this grassroots ferment and has since issued a compelling demand for organisational autonomy, grassroots urban planning and the right to the city.
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Date Issued: 2009

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Tri-locus sequence data reject a Gondwanan origin hypothesis for the African/South Pacific crab genus Hymenosoma

- Teske, Peter R, McLay, Colin L, Sandoval-Castillo, Jonathan, Papadopoulos, Isabelle, Newman, Brent K, Griffiths, Charles L, McQuaid, Christopher D, Barker, Nigel P, Borgonie, Gaetan, Beheregaray, Luciano B

Authors: Teske, Peter R , McLay, Colin L , Sandoval-Castillo, Jonathan , Papadopoulos, Isabelle , Newman, Brent K , Griffiths, Charles L , McQuaid, Christopher D , Barker, Nigel P , Borgonie, Gaetan , Beheregaray, Luciano B
Date: 2009
Language: English
Type: Article
Identifier: vital:6547 , http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1006003
Description: Crabs of the family Hymenosomatidae are common in coastal and shelf regions throughout much of the southern hemisphere. One of the genera in the family, Hymenosoma, is represented in Africa and the South Pacific (Australia and New Zealand). This distribution can be explained either by vicariance (presence of the genus on the Gondwanan supercontinent and divergence following its break-up) or more recent transoceanic dispersal from one region to the other. We tested these hypotheses by reconstructing phylogenetic relationships among the seven presently-accepted species in the genus, as well as examining their placement among other hymenosomatid crabs, using sequence data from two nuclear markers (Adenine Nucleotide Transporter [ANT] exon 2 and 18S rDNA) and three mitochondrial markers (COI, 12S and 16S rDNA). The five southern African representatives of the genus were recovered as a monophyletic lineage, and another southern African species, Neorhynchoplax bovis, was identified as their sister taxon. The two species of Hymenosoma from the South Pacific neither clustered with their African congeners, nor with each other, and should therefore both be placed into different genera. Molecular dating supports a post-Gondwanan origin of the Hymenosomatidae. While long-distance dispersal cannot be ruled out to explain the presence of the family Hymenosomatidae on the former Gondwanan land-masses and beyond, the evolutionary history of the African species of Hymenosoma indicates that a third means of speciation may be important in this group: gradual along-coast dispersal from tropical towards temperate regions, with range expansions into formerly inhospitable habitat during warm climatic phases, followed by adaptation and speciation during subsequent cooler phases.
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Date Issued: 2009

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The aporia of collective violence

- Praeg, Leonhard

Authors: Praeg, Leonhard
Date: 2008
Language: English
Type: Article
Identifier: vital:6196 , http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1008560
Description: From the theoretical perspective of René Girard, Walter Benjamin and Jacques Derrida the Rwanda genocide of 1994 may be interpreted as an instance of foundational violence. Given the constant reference in the Rwanda genocide discourse to the failed revolution of 1959, it is perhaps rather a case of deferred foundational violence. Useful as this notion of “foundational violence” may be, as theoretical category it is also hugely challenging because the implicit claim is not just historical (“states are routinely founded on violence”) but analytical (“founding moments are per definition violent”). The result is a profound tension between, on the one hand, the need to understand the event as somehow unexceptional or typical of the founding of new socio-political orders and, on the other hand, the need to judge it as exceptional, an “outrage,” a crime against humanity. This paper treats the tension between the unexceptional and exceptional as aporetic, that is, as a profound puzzle consisting of two equally valid imperatives which are nonetheless mutually exclusive. It is also an attempt to find a way beyond the impasse.
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Date Issued: 2008

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