- Nationality
- đżđŠ South Africa
- Affiliation
- Department of Philosophy, Stellenbosch University, South Africa
- Residencies at STIAS
- 2017 2nd Semester / 2020 2nd Semester / 2021 1st Semester
Projects
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Self, Autonomy, Authority and Law: The Challenge of âLeaky Bodiesâ
The unity, integrity, health and prospects of collectives such as states, nations and societies are often imagined in terms of the individual human body. -
The Changing Place of the Corporation in International Law (Crossing Borders: Boundaries and Legal Authority in a Global Context)
This is a team project within the Crossing Borders theme. -
Gandhiâs Satyagraha: Exploring Non-Violent Alternatives for Effective Political Resistance and Transformation
Challenges confronting our contemporary world like terrorism, populism, and religious pluralism recommend revisiting Gandhiâs concept of satyagraha. -
White Women Engaging Black Lives Matter: Problematizing Solidarity in a Time of Identity Politics
The brutal police killing of George Floyd in America on 25 May 2020 has led to global mass protest action through the Black Lives Matter (BLM) movement against police brutality and other institutionalized forms of violence against Black people.
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Event
Symposium on Constitutionalism and Democracy Crossing Legal Boundaries: Perspectives from Global South and Peripheral Modernity
Constitutional problems are increasingly crossing legal boundaries and intertwining in the world society since the globalization process that intensified in the last quarter of the twentieth century.
Article
Whatâs a White woman to do? White women engaging Black Lives Matter: Problematising solidarity in a time of identity politics - Fellows' seminar by Amanda Gouws, Azille Coetzee and Louise du Toit
Twenty-six years into democracy South Africans remain deeply troubled by race, said Amanda Gouws of the Department of Political Science at Stellenbosch University.
Article
Gandhiâs Satyagraha: Exploring non-violent alternatives for effective political resistance and transformation - Fellows' seminar by Wolfgang Palaver, Louise du Toit, Ephraim Meir and Ed Noort
Challenges confronting our contemporary world like terrorism, populism and religious pluralism recommend revisiting Gandhiâs concept of Satyagraha.
Article
Reflecting on Gandhiâs ideas on non-violence and what these can offer the world today - Fellowsâ seminar by Wolfgang Palaver, Louise du Toit, Ephraim Meir and Ed Noort
The STIAS 2021 seminar programme opened with a seminar by the âGandhi research groupâ comprising Wolfgang Palaver of the Department of Systematic Theology at the University of Innsbruck, Louise du Toit of the Department of Philosophy at Stellenbosch University, Ephraim Meir of the Department of Jewish Philosophy and Kabbalah at Bar-Ilan University and Ed Noort of the Faculty of Theology and Religious Studies at the University of Groningen.
Publication
âDie pot kook oralâ: NP van Wyk Louw, Johannes Degenaar en Afrikaanse dekolonisering
Du Toit, Louise. 2020. âDie pot kook oralâ: NP van Wyk Louw, Johannes Degenaar en Afrikaanse dekolonisering. Tydskrif Vir Geesteswetenskappe, 60(2). https:...
Publication
When Bodies Speak Differently: Putting Judith Butler in Conversation with Mahatma Gandhi on Nonviolent Resistance
Du Toit, Louise and Jana Vosloo. 2021. When Bodies Speak Differently: Putting Judith Butler in Conversation with Mahatma Gandhi on Nonviolent Resistance. R...
Publication
Eithne Dowds: Feminist Engagement with International Criminal Law: Norm Transfer, Complementarity, Rape and Consent
Du Toit, Louise. 2021. Eithne Dowds: Feminist Engagement with International Criminal Law: Norm Transfer, Complementarity, Rape and Consent. Feminist Legal ...
Publication
Gandhi and the Gender of Nonviolent Resistance
Du Toit, Louise. 2022. Gandhi and the Gender of Nonviolent Resistance. Religions, 13(467), 1â18. https://doi.org/10.3390/rel13050467
Publication
Nonviolence and Religion
du Toit, Louise, Ephraim Meir, Ed Noort and Wolfgang Palaver. Eds.. 2023. Nonviolence and Religion. MDPI. https://doi.org/10.3390/books978-3-0365-7173-7