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Author : Robert J. Gordon
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 82 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : Customary law
ISBN : UVA:X002404893
This is a discussion paper on customary law. The themes include: The colonial judical structure; Manipulation of customary law; and Conclusion.
Author : Burns H. Weston,David Bollier
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 391 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2013-01-21
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781107034365
The vast majority of the world's scientists agree: we have reached a point in history where we are in grave danger of destroying Earth's life-sustaining capacity. But our attempts to protect natural ecosystems are increasingly ineffective because our very conception of the problem is limited; we treat "the environment" as its own separate realm, taking for granted prevailing but outmoded conceptions of economics, national sovereignty, and international law. Green Governance is a direct response to the mounting calls for a paradigm shift in the way humans relate to the natural environment. It opens the door to a new set of solutions by proposing a compelling new synthesis of environmental protection based on broader notions of economics and human rights and on commons-based governance. Going beyond speculative abstractions, the book proposes a new architecture of environmental law and public policy that is as practical as it is theoretically sound.
Author : Willem Odendaal
Publisher : African Books Collective
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2024-03-27
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9783906927619
In 1954, the Haillom people were evicted from Etosha by the South African-con-trolled South West African Administration. In 2015, the Haillom filed the case of Tsumib v Government of the Republic of Namibia in the High Court of Namibia. "Beggars on our own land ..." unravels the historical and contemporary socio-legal complexities that led to the Tsumib case. At the core of the case lies the legal question, how can the Haillom people approach the Namibian Courts in order to claim compensation for the loss of their ancestral lands? Odendaal goes into detail how the Tsumib case materialised under the post-inde-pendence Namibian constitutional discourse. He assesses the Namibian land re form programme and its oversight in dealing with historical land dispossessions. He inspects Haillom "identity" and how it was used to strengthen their case. He concludes with an examination of Namibia's outdated and restrictive legal frame-work, which ultimately denied the Haillom people their constitutional right to be heard in the Namibian Court. While the future of ancestral land claims in Namibia depends on the political will of the Namibian government, Odendaal argues that the Namibian courts have a duty to comply with the rights giving nature of the Namibian Constitution that lays the foundation for the Haillom people's ancestral claims.
Author : Andrew Bainham
Publisher : Martinus Nijhoff Publishers
Page : 542 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 1998-02-05
Category : Law
ISBN : 9041105735
The "International Survey of Family Law," published on behalf of the International Society of Family Law, is the successor to the Annual Survey of Family Law'. It provides information, analysis and comment on recent developments in Family Law across the world on a country-by- country basis. The "Survey" is published annually and its subtitle reflects the calendar year surveyed. Where a country has been regularly surveyed each year, the developments discussed correspond to the year in question. If certain countries have not been surveyed for some years the contributions will usually attempt to cover the intervening period. This applies, for example, in the present volume to the contributions relating to China and Turkey. If countries are being covered for the first time, then more background information will be provided about the state of family law in the country in question. The "Survey" also contains an article dealing with the more significant developments in international law affecting the family.
Author : David G. Anderson,Eeva Berglund
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2003-02-28
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0857456741
Anthropologists know that conservation often disempowers already under-privileged groups, and that it also fails to protect environments. Through a series of ethnographic studies, this book argues that the real problem is not the disappearance of "pristine nature" or even the land-use practices of uneducated people. Rather, what we know about culturally determined patterns of consumption, production and unequal distribution, suggests that critical attention would be better turned on discourses of "primitiveness" and "pristine nature" so prevalent within conservation ideology, and on the historically formed power and exchange relationships that they help perpetuate.
Author : Dorothy Ayers Counts,Judith K. Brown,Jacquelyn Campbell
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
Page : 342 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Cross-cultural studies
ISBN : 0252067975
This vitally important volume places the problem of wife beating in a broad cultural context in a search for strategies to reform societies, including our own, that are prone to this pernicious form of violence. Based on first hand ethnographic data on more than a dozen societies, including a number in Oceania, this collection explores the social and cultural factors that work either to inhibit or to promote domestic violence against women. The volume also includes a study of abuse among nonhuman primates and a cross-cultural analysis of the legal aspects of wife beating. By presenting counterexamples from other cultures, contributors challenge Western assumptions about the factors leading to wife beating. Through a close examination of societies where wife beating is infrequent or absent, To Have and To Hit identifies the factors--economic, social, political, and cultural--that must be explored and transformed in order to combat this violence and eventually eliminate it.
Author : John T. Friedman
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2011-07-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780857450913
In northwest Namibia, people’s political imagination offers a powerful insight into the post-apartheid state. Based on extensive anthropological fieldwork, this book focuses on the former South African apartheid regime and the present democratic government; it compares the perceptions and practices of state and customary forms of judicial administration, reflects upon the historical trajectory of a chieftaincy dispute in relation to the rooting of state power and examines everyday forms of belonging in the independent Namibian State. By elucidating the State through a focus on the social, historical and cultural processes that help constitute it, this study helps chart new territory for anthropology, and it contributes an ethnographic perspective to a wider set of interdisciplinary debates on the State and state processes.
Author : Michel. P. Pimbert
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 407 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2017-11-01
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9781317354970
Contestations over knowledge – and who controls its production – are a key focus of social movements and other actors that promote food sovereignty, agroecology and biocultural diversity. This book critically examines the kinds of knowledge and ways of knowing needed for food sovereignty, agroecology and biocultural diversity. ‘Food sovereignty’ is understood here as a transformative process that seeks to recreate the democratic realm and regenerate a diversity of autonomous food systems based on agroecology, biocultural diversity, equity, social justice and ecological sustainability. It is shown that alternatives to the current model of development require radically different knowledges and epistemologies from those on offer today in mainstream institutions (including universities, policy think tanks and donor organizations). To achieve food sovereignty, agroecology and biocultural diversity, there is a need to re-imagine and construct knowledge for diversity, decentralisation, dynamic adaptation and democracy. The authors critically explore the changes in organizations, research paradigms and professional practice that could help transform and co-create knowledge for a new modernity based on plural definitions of wellbeing. Particular attention is given to institutional, pedagogical and methodological innovations that can enhance cognitive justice by giving hitherto excluded citizens more power and agency in the construction of knowledge. The book thus contributes to the democratization of knowledge and power in the domain of food, environment and society. Chapters 1 and 8 of this book are freely available as downloadable Open Access PDFs at http://www.taylorfrancis.com under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives (CC-BY-NC-ND) 4.0 license.
Author : Sonja Gierse-Arsten
Publisher : African Books Collective
Page : 508 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2024-01-10
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9783906927558
Worldwide, Namibia ranks high regarding gender equality. However, many women are intimidated by violence perpetrated by men. This book is based on a social anthropological field research in the small town of Outjo, situated in Northern Central Namibia, over a period of 14 months. Gender is learnt, lived and reproduced in a societal frame. Violence against women, too, is perpetrated by men in a societal context. By using mainly qualitative research methods, Sonja Gierse-Arsten looks at male and female perspectives to reach a holistic understanding and to provide a basis for sustainable changes towards equal gender relations. She traces the transition from a hierarchical gender system during colonial times to the aspired equal gender relations in present Namibia. Current challenges characterised by poverty and great economic inequalities form the framework in which gender is performed and violence perpetrated. This study offers inspirations to re-think gender to reach substantive gender equality and to overcome the normalisation of violence.
Author : James T. Lawrence
Publisher : Nova Science Publishers
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Political Science
ISBN : UOM:39015061323393
The existence of human rights helps secure the peace, deter aggression, promote the rule of law, combat crime and corruption, and prevent humanitarian crises. These human rights include freedom from torture, freedom of expression, press freedom, women's rights, children's rights, and the protection of minorities. The book surveys the countries of Africa and is augmented by a current bibliography and useful indexes by subject, title and author.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 814 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Public law
ISBN : STANFORD:36105061106584
Author : Legal Assistance Centre (Namibia)
Publisher : Centre
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Customary law
ISBN : UOM:39015053491919
This paper explores possible legal reforms for the recognotion of customary marriages in Namibia. It emphasis recognition rather than merely registration might or might not be a prerequisite for recognition.
Author : Heike Becker,Manfred O. Hinz
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Customary law
ISBN : STANFORD:36105061903105
Author : Franka Marina D'Engelbronner-Kolff,Manfred O. Hinz,J. L. Sindano
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Africa, Southern
ISBN : STANFORD:36105062044552
The Centre for Applied Social Sciences in Namibia held a major regional workshop to examine the role of traditional authorities in today's rapidly transforming societies of southern Africa. History has taught that customary laws and values that continue to be widely accepted do not disappear with the promulgation of new laws. Modern states of southern Africa adhere to democratic, constitutional and human rights principles which are seen as offering greater protection for the individual; but some people might feel that this is an imposition of alien concepts and values that threaten their survival and identity. Traditional leaders are still active, but how do their powers and duties relate to modern democratic constitutional processes? These are the issues examined in fifteen papers, as relating to Botswana, Lesotho, Namibia, South Africa and Zimbabwe.
Author : Sumi Madhok
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 227 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2022-02-03
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781108832625
Tracks the critical conceptual vocabularies and the gendered subaltern politics of rights and human rights in South Asia.