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Epistemology and its discontents: Working as a psychologist in troubled times
This monograph project outlines the discipline of psychology’s complex relationship with human rights, acknowledging instances of complicity in injustice alongside its potential for liberation.
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American DNA: Bioethics and the Excavation of Difference from the Human Genome
The resurgence of race in genomic research has renewed longstanding debates about the biological basis of human difference, raising urgent ethical questions about how science reanimates and recodes the meaning of race.
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Activist Language Scholarship: A Framework for Integrity
Our project joins sociolinguistics, philosophy of science, and research ethics in an extensive and close collaboration to explore the conditions of integrity in politically engaged scholarship.
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Affirmative Action: A Comparative Study
In dealing with diversity and difference, many countries have moved from the relatively passive idea of non-discrimination to a more pro-active strategy of affirmative action (AA).
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Towards a New Humanism
Why do we simply fail to establish a more human society in South Africa?
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Decolonisation and affective worlds: On the worldmaking potential of shame and rage in the South African “post”-apartheid present
This long-term project, with it’s focus on affect, particularly melancholy, shame and rage, is located in a feminist decolonial framework and is aimed at disrupting gender, raced and other entangled binaries and associated violences.
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Beware of Bad Dogs, A Novel
A story set in contemporary Sierra Leone about a group of politicians who view themselves as leading a prosperous and progressive country versus those of the masses, the citizens, whose experiences differ.
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The Martyr: A Graphic Comic Novel that explores the link between economic inequality, marginalization and violent extremism and radicalization in East Africa
The Martyr traces the story of Omar, a young Kenyan man and a talented sculptor who joins the Al-Shabaab after being innocently arrested in a police swoop and locked up for two years.
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#JustAndEquitableNow: Reimagining Arts and Humanities in Our Universities
The #JustAndEquitableNow team reflects on what it means to make, teach, and research the arts when communities are protesting against longstanding injustices and demanding better futures.
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Recognition and Identity: Ethical and Theological Explorations
This project engages with the notion of recognition as a crucial moral, political, and theological category.
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Critical Engagement with Public Sociology: A Perspective from the Global South
Bezuidenhout, Andries, Sonwabile Mnwana and Karl von Holdt. (Eds). 2022. Critical Engagement with Public Sociology: A Perspective from the G...
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Narratives, social justice, and the common good
Eze, Chielozona. 2022. Narratives, social justice, and the common good. In Epistemic Justice and Creative Agency (pp. 23–43). Routledge. htt...
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Gender, Sufi Ethics and Social justice in Islam
This project is based on completing a book manuscript focussed on Gender, Sufi Ethics and Social justice in Islam, which is under contract to Oneworld Academic Publications for their series Islam in the 21stCentury.
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Justice through deliberation and the problem of otherness
Okeja, Uchenna. 2019. Justice through deliberation and the problem of otherness. Angelaki, 24(2), 10–21. https://doi.org/10.1080/0969725X.20...
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African Philosophy and Global Justice: Critical Essays
Okeja, Uchenna. 2018. African Philosophy and Global Justice: Critical Essays (1st ed.). London: Routledge. https://www.routledge.com/African...
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Genocide and other Atrocity Crimes: Toward Remedies
Savelsberg, Joachim J. 2018. “Genocide and other Atrocity Crimes: Toward Remedies.” In G. Muschert, B. Klocke, R. Perrucci, J. Shefner, K. B...
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Human Rights and Social Control
Savelsberg, Joachim J. and Brooke B Chambers. 2019. Human Rights and Social Control. In The Handbook of Social Control (pp. 442–455). Chiche...
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Haunting (in)equalities
Karin van Marle. 2008. Haunting (in)equalities. In “Rethinking equality projects in law: Feminist perspectives”. R Hunter (ed). London: Hart
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The Humanist Imperative in South Africa
John De Gruchy (editor). 2011. The Humanist Imperative in South Africa. SUN MeDIA.
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Inserting rights and justice into urban resilience: a focus on everyday risk
Ziervogel, Gina, Mark Pelling, Anton Cartwright, Eric Chu, Tanvi Deshpande, Leila Harris, Keith Hyams, Jean Kaunda, Benjamin Klaus, Kavya Mi...
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Evaluating Societies Morally: The Case of Development and ‘Developing’ Societies
Okeja, Uchenna. 2017. Evaluating Societies Morally: The Case of Development and ‘Developing’ Societies. Analyse & Kritik, 39(2), 241–263. ht...
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STIAS Series Volume 7: Affirmative Action: A view from the Global South
Affirmative Action: A view from the Global South Ockert Dupper, Kamala Sankaran (Editors) SUN PRESS (2014, 285 pp) ISBN: 978‑1‑920689‑46-9 ...
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Land Restitution and the Moral Modernity of the New South African State
The purpose of this project is to conclude a book-in-progress, entitled Land Restitution and the Moral Modernity of the New South African State.
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Contingency and Uncertainty: Working with and against the state in South Africa
This project asks the question: under what circumstances, with what political resources, and under what kinds of assumptions are women able to make claims on the state to address gender inequalities?
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Democracy at the Crossroads? Normative, performance and legitimacy changes in contemporary democracies
Current crises can hardly be reduced to fiscal or economic phenomena; they seem to be much deeper, including the crisis of democracy per se.
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From Limited Government to Social Justice and Development: Progressive Constitutionalism in the Era of Globalisation
While Southern countries have largely failed to bring about a new international economic order, they have been more successful in shaping the international agenda in the field of human rights, from the Convention for the Elimination of all Forms of Racial Discrimination to the Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights and its recent Protocol.
