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Browsing Humanities by UP Author "Kistner, Ulrike"
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Kistner, Ulrike (Springer, 2015-02)The legal doctrine of ‘common purpose’ in South African criminal law considers all parties liable who have been in implicit or explicit agreement to commit an unlawful act, and associated with each other for that purpose, ...
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Kistner, Ulrike (Fundación Telefónica, 2011)Walter Benjamin’s famous statement in the eighth of his “Theses on the Philosophy of History,” that “the state of [exception] in which we live is not the exception but the rule,”1 has become as normalized as its ...
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Kistner, Ulrike (Southern African Association of German, 2016)In making the case for the public role of religion in post-modernity, post-secularism posits the translatability of the claims of religion into claims on the grounds of morality and rationality. While much scope is given ...
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Kistner, Ulrike (OpenJournals Publishing, 2014-11-20)Between the sphere of civil society associated with the idea of active, democratic citizenship, and the governance of precariously living populations ‘in most of the world’ (i.e. not simply ‘in the margins’), lies the ...
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Kistner, Ulrike (SUNMeDIA, 2014)Confronted by the charge of depoliticisation levelled at human rights frameworks and interventions, I investigate the possibility of a politics of human rights at the core of democratic politics. In doing so, I am guided ...
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Court, Anthony; Kistner, Ulrike (UNISA Press, 2019-01)The concept of polycracy is beset by a number of paradoxes: it designates a form of political rule in the absence of such rule. In such circumstances, a multiplicity of social formations, economic and financial agencies ...
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Kistner, Ulrike (AOSIS, 2021-08-05)In his writings on culture, Freud stipulates a close relation between religion and psychopathology, and obsessional neurosis in particular. In this article, I would like to explore the nature of that relation. How is it ...
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Kistner, Ulrike (Springer, 2014-12)A sociology of knowledge of a specific kind, namely that emerging from observations on the work of scientific thought collectives, is what Thomas Kuhn acknowledges as Ludwik Fleck’s (Denkstile und Tatsachen. Gesammelte ...
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Kistner, Ulrike (Routledge, 2015-03)This article investigates some accounts of conspicuous consumption in South Africa, tracing their variously linear, circular and disjunctive paths, identifying and explaining some methodological impasses, and concluding ...
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Kistner, Ulrike (OpenJournals Publishing, 2015-11-16)This article examines the relation between the University of Pretoria and the City of Tshwane, outlining seven different kinds of relation as they have taken shape historically. The first type relation between the ...
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Kistner, Ulrike (Routledge, 2012)In his article, ‘Still searching for “the human”’, Premesh Lalu (2012, p. 1) decries the National Research Foundation’s decision to fund 60 new chairs at universities in South Africa, to foster research in line with the ...
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Kistner, Ulrike (Transformation, 2011)The academic institution in which I work makes of me – unintentionally on my part – a sociographic observer. The first thing to be noted in this sociography concerns the changing definition of the role of the university that ...
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Kistner, Ulrike (SUNMeDIA, 2014)Unprocedural strike action accompanied by high levels of violence pose challenges to union collective bargaining and other representative structures and institutions, evoking notions of the unruly crowd threatening ...
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