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The subject of human rights and its attendant these of access to justice have remained relevant areas to the legal fraternity. This relevance resonates well in the fields of teaching and learning the law, consultancy, legal practice and advocacy, law reform, and judicial decision making. In the East African region, however, the availability of research and reference material for these two areas of learning has remained low. It is against the backdrop of the foregoing that the publishing of the Digest on Human Rights and Access to Justice in East Africa is an important aspect of the development of the law in the region. Bringing together decisions of both municipal courts within the East Africa region beyond, the digest has breathed a totally new lease of life into the practice and comparative legal studies in the area of human rights and access to justice. To a large extent, the digest has robbed practitioners of law of the excuses attendant to poor advocacy in the arena of human rights. It has robbed judicial officer of the excuses attendant to shallow and poorly reasoned judgments. It has robbed students and teachers of law the excuses attendant to poorly researched theses in the area of human rights. Definitely, it has added immense value to the consumers of human rights and access to justice. This Digest is a product of the fruitful on-going collaboration between LawAfrica Publishing Ltd and East Africa Law Society. Both LawAfrica with its East Africa Law Reports, and EALS, with its ever-growing collaboration between East African lawyers, yearn for greater integration of legal practice in the three East African countries. This Digest is a contribution to that desire.
The Concept of Botho and HIV
(2007)
Ever since the publication of Placide Tempel's epoch-making work Bantu Philosophy, African philosophers have worked to dispel the myth that there is no metaphysics in Africa. In the East African context we remember the names of Joseph Nyasmi and Odera Oruka, and in the West African context, Pauline Hotoundji and Kwesi Wiredu have made monumental contributions to elucidate African metaphysics. This compendium, presented by a group of scholars from the University of Botswana, seeks to build bridges between the seemingly estranged disciplines of African metaphysics, existential philosophy, and economics in the contexts of HIV/AIDS.
This book highlights the importance of Pan-Africanism in view of reasserting its pivotal role in the economic integration of the continent. For Africans to co-exist and aspire to a much needed dynamic and social community, there is need for a common understanding of their shared histories and projects. The contributions analyse regional identities that derive from an observed syncretism between traditional culture, Islamic religion and modernity. The example of interregional relations is tangible proof of the difficult negotiation of imposed international axiological constraints. From this perspective, the new partnership between the North and the South ought to be the responsibility of all and sundry, in which social or state actors are capable of communicating and putting forward their various rationalities for discussion. In this way, the South-South dialectic will find its place: regionalisation will as such promote solidarity between peoples and the reinvention of great democratic values.
' ''The 30th Anniversary of CODESRIA, held in Dakar in December 2003 under the theme ''''Intellectuals, Nationalism and the Pan-African Ideal'''', yielded an impressive crop of papers. This book brings together eight of the numerous papers presented on Regional Integration, Democracy and Pan-Africanism, amongst which are those by Bernard Founou-Tchuigoua, Jean-Pierre Olivier de Sardan and Alexis Adand?. Each author explores from a special angle questions related to regional integration, democracy or Pan-Africanism. The contributions explore the diversity of paradigms which have been forged or applied on the African continent during the last century, especially in the course of the liberation movement and early post- independence era. Indeed, these paradigms, which largely remain relevant, are re-appraised in the light of contemporary realities.'''
This volume highlights the proceedings of the two policy dialogue conferences held by the Working Group on Finance and Education (WGFE) in 2004. Part I of the document discusses the endemic crisis that higher educationhas been beset with since the outset of the post colonial period in Africa. It highlights the critical state of higher education systems in Burkina Faso, Mali, Nigeria and Senegal by scrutinizing the causes, manifestations and consequences of the crisis to posit useful recommendations and possible solutions. Part II is a comprehensive review of the challenges facing the financing and planning of all levels and types ofeducation - from kindergarten to graduate school - in selected African countries. The papers reveal the sources and mechanisms of funding education in Africa, drawing attention to the experiences of communities confronted with new funding sources. A new trend, which consists of designing decade long educational development plans, has emerged and is rapidly expanding in numerous African countries. This experience is examined and shared by the authors. This book has contributions in both French and English.
This volume discusses a number of issues on the contested nature of intellectual property rights (IPR) and Indigenous Knowledge Systems (IKS) in the context of Southern Africa. The issues addressed include the protection of folklore, IKS in a digital era, the valuation and safeguard of heritage sites, the need for appropriate IKS legislation, community based control of natural resources and the role played by traditional music in the maintenance of community. It is this extensive exploration of IKS from the vantage points of communication and culture, and explored in terms of policy, cultural survival, international as well as intra-national politics, economics, philosophy and ethics that makes this empirical grounded collection of papers unique, a distinctive contribution to the literature and 'cause' of IKS. The specific IKS-related issues raised and dealt with in this volume are generic in the sense that the very same issues are being contested in different parts of the world. In this respect, this book highlights the particular as a means of comprehending the universal.
This report is the first independent, substantive and public assessment of the progress of the African Union. 'Towards a People-Driven African Union: Current Obstacles and New Opportunities' analyses the preparations of African Union member-states, the AU Commission and civil society organisations for the twice-yearly AU summits. The main finding is that despite some welcome new opportunities for participation, the African Union's vision of -an Africa driven by its own citizens- remains largely unfulfilled. Detailed recommendations are offered to help deliver on this vision in future. Published by AFRODAD, AfriMAP and Oxfam, this report is endorsed by more than a dozen other organisations in Africa and elsewhere, and is based on interviews with more than 50 representatives of member-states, the AU Commission and civil society organisations in eleven African countries.
Rethinking Security in Nigeria adopts an alternate conceptual and methodological framework for rethinking national security in Nigeria by using the humanities' multidisciplinary perspective against the backdrop of the hitherto restrictive analysis of the nature of national security. By expounding the largely unexplored cosmological, conceptual, ethical and aesthetic dimensions as key contributors to national survival and social integration, the volume argues systematically for a basic redefinition of the meanings of security, the value of life, government action and social re-engineering in order to create a new system of social order an integration. The authors attempt to extend the boundaries of previous theorizing on security by identifying alternate ethical and aesthetic approaches to national reconciliation and human development in present-day Nigeria, which faces major security challenges requiring the clarification of the basis for developing a just and harmonious society. The study is a contribution to the quest for defining the vital socio-cultural norms and doctrinal imperatives needed for responsible cooperative human action. It examines the roles of dominant works of philosophy, literature, plays and performances in the creation of a basis for political stability and social reconciliation in the society. It extends the boundaries of previous aesthetic studies and redefines the roles of ethics and aesthetics as crucial contributors to security, human development and world civilisation.
Weaver Press's previous collections of short stories, Writing Now and Writing Still, were highly praised for the quality of their prose and the imagination of their writers. They confirmed, for one reviewer, 'the paradoxical truth that troubled societies somehow produce some of the most interesting writing available. Laughing Now goes further, and demonstrates the enduring capacity of Zimbabweans to find humour in even the most difficult of circumstances. The stories embrace funerals, dancing competitions, family tensions, rampant inflation and endless queues for scarce goods. They take a wry look at pompous politicians, foreign filmmakers and the aspirations of the so-called 'new' farmers. Those by Gappah, Chingono and Eppel won the first three prizes in the recent Mukuru.com short story competition. Zimbabwean fiction in English has become world-renowned in recent decades, but its concerns - war, trauma and the trials of independence - have chronicled the pain of those periods. Laughing Now suggests that we are finding new ways to reflect our reality; that however many zeros we add to the rate of inflation, and however hungry we may become, humour is as good a responce as any.
Aufgrund des Beschlusses des Fachbereichsrates des Fachbereichs Neuere Philologien vom 02.05.2007 wird die Ordnung für den Studiengang Kognitive Linguistik mit den Abschlüssen "Bachelor of Arts" und "Master of Arts" an der Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main vom 02.02.2005 wie folgt neu gefasst: ...
Das Forschungsprojekt PROTOSOZIOLOGIE an der J.W. Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main hat seit 1991 eine grundlagentheoretische Forschung auf dem Gebiet der Theoriebildung der modernen Sozialwissenschaften durchgeführt. Dabei waren die drei Kontexte Phänomenologie, System- und Sprachtheorie relevant. Die Phänomenologie der Lebenswelt und die Systemtheorie haben in der Philosophie und Soziologie des 20. Jahrhunderts – neben dem Sprachbegriff – eine paradigmatische Bedeutung. Edmund Husserls Lebensweltbegriff ist in der phänomenologischen Schule und der phänomenologischen Soziologie von Alfred Schütz, in der konstruktiven Wissenschaftstheorie von Paul Lorenzen und seiner Schüler, in der Systemtheorie Niklas Luhmanns und der Theorie des kommunikativen Handelns von Jürgen Habermas wirkungsgeschichtlich geworden. Die Systemtheorie und der soziologische Funktionalismus hat seit den 40er Jahren eine paradigmatische Bedeutung für die Sozialwissenschaften und Wissenschaftstheorie. System und Lebenswelt avancierten somit zu den zentralen Begriffen der Philosophie, Soziologie und Kommunikationstheorie in der zweiten Hälfte des 20. Jahrhunderts. Für die beiden deutschen Soziologen Luhmann und Habermas ist darüber hinaus – wenn auch in unterschiedlicher Gewichtung – die Verbindung beider Begriffe von grundlegender Bedeutung. Im Rückblick können wir feststellen, daß in der Philosophie des 20. Jahrhunderts drei Philosophien dominierten: die Sprachphilosophie in der heute weitverzweigten und dominierenden analytischen Philosophie (Frege, Russell, Wittgenstein, Carnap u.a.), Husserls Phänomenologie in der »Phänomenologischen Schule« und Soziologie und Heideggers Fundamentalontologie in der Philosophischen Hermeneutik. Gemeinsam ist den Hauptrichtungen der Philosophie in diesem Jahrhundert, daß sie die Erkenntnistheorie nicht mehr cartesianisch und mentalistisch konstruieren. Paradigmatisch wurde diese Umorientierung in der Erkenntnistheorie Wittgensteins, der Frege folgend, in seinem »Tractatus« lakonisch formuliert: »Das denkende, vorstellende Subjekt gibt es nicht«. Husserl nimmt zwar eine Sonderstellung ein, da seine Egologie und Erkenntnistheorie cartesianisch orientiert ist. Mit der Hinwendung zur Lebensweltanalyse gibt er auch eine Antwort auf die Konstruktionsprobleme des modernen Mentalismus. Die Dekonstruktion des erkennenden Ichs (transzendentalen Bewußtseins) hat sich in der Philosophie, Wissenschaftstheorie und Soziologie des 20. Jahrhunderts durchgesetzt. Dies gilt sowohl für den radikalen Konstruktivismus, die allgemeine und die soziologische Systemtheorie Luhmanns aber auch für die konstruktive Philosophie von Lorenzen, den sogenannten »Erlangener Konstruktivismus« und seine heutigen Vertreter. Belegen läßt sich das Ende der Bewußtseinsphilosophie aber auch in der Erkenntnistheorie ohne erkennendes Subjekt von Popper, dem erkenntnistheoretischen Naturalismus von Quine und Davidson, der sprachtheoretischen Erkenntnis- und Wissenschaftstheorie von Essler (W.K.) und in der Organtheorie der Sprache von Chomsky. Inhalt Einleitung: »Lebenswelt« und »System« in Philosophie und Soziologie 9 Gerhard Preyer, Georg Peter, Alexander Ulfig ZUM BEGRIFF DER LEBENSWELT Ernst Wolfgang Orth ›Lebenswelt‹ als unvermeidliche Illusion? Husserls Lebensweltbegriff und seine kulturpolitischen Weiterungen 28 Walter Biemel Gedanken zur Genesis der Lebenswelt 41 Alexander Ulfig Lebenswelt und Reflexion. Anhang: Lebenswelt als Fundament der Wissenschaft 55 Gerhard Preyer Hintergrundwissen: Kritik eines Begriffs 81 Hubert A. Knoblauch Soziologie als strenge Wissenschaft? Phänomenologie, kommunikative Lebenswelt und soziologische Methodologie 93 LEBENSWELT – BEGRÜNDUNG – WISSENSCHAFT Jürgen Mittelstraß Das lebensweltliche Apriori 106 Peter Janich Die Rationalität der Naturwissenschaften 133 Jürgen Mittelstraß Rationalität und Reproduzierbarkeit 152 Elisabeth Ströker Lebenswelt durch Wissenschaft: Zum Strukturwandel von Welt- und Selbsterfahrung 163 Paul Janssen Lebenswelt, Wissen und Wissenschaft – Möglichkeiten ihrer Konstellation 184 Richard T. Murphy E. Husserl's Phenomenology of Reason 202 LEBENSWELT / LEBENSFORM – SPRACHE Pierre Kerszberg Lifeworld and Language 216 John F.M. Hunter The Motley Forms of Life in the Later Wittgenstein 228 Peter A. French Why did Wittgenstein read Tagore to the Vienna Circle? 241 Georg Peter Die Nebenbeschäftigung der Symbole: Zu Wahrheit und Funktion der Metapher 251 SYSTEM – SOZIALSYSTEM – GESELLSCHAFT Niklas Luhmann Die Lebenswelt nach Rücksprache mit Phänomenologen 268 Niklas Luhmann Observing Re-entries 290 Gerhard Preyer System-, Medien- und Evolutionstheorie. Zu Niklas Luhmanns Ansatz 302 Richard Münch Autopoesis per Definition 347 Hans Zitko Codierungen der Kunst: Zur Kunstsoziologie Niklas Luhmanns 357 James Bohman The Completeness of Macro-Sociological Explanations: System and Lifeworld 370 Göran Ahrne Outline of an Organisational Theory of Society 382 Anhang: Karl Otto Hondrich Zu Göran Ahrnes Ansatz 390