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South African legal culture in a transformative context
Dissertation (LLM)--University of Pretoria, 2009.
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| spelling | oai:repository.up.ac.za:2263/28235 South African legal culture in a transformative context Van Marle, Karin isolde.devilliers@gmail.com De Villiers, Isolde Transformative constitutionalism Legal culture UCTD Dissertation (LLM)--University of Pretoria, 2009. Joining in the search for a post-apartheid South African jurisprudence, this dissertation departs from transformative constitutionalism, as formulated by Karl Klare. Transformative constitutionalism is a long-term project of bringing about social change through the interpretation and enactment of the constitution. Because the project envisions transformation not as single occurrence but as a continuous process, it requires a legal culture that is conducive to this change. Legal culture pertains to the way in which law and legal concepts are approached. The suggestion is that there is a continuation of a formalistic legal culture in South Africa, and this continuation of formalism stifles the transformation envisioned by the South African Constitution and the project of transformative constitutionalism. The idea of continuation emphasises the momentum of legal culture and is related to institutional inertia. This dissertation links conservatism, positivism, formalism and other related concepts with the notion of spectacle as outlined in the work of Njabulo Ndebele and proposes that South African legal culture is a continuation of spectacle by looking at approaches to history, constitutionalism, democracy and rights. The spectacle, like formalism, prefers the determinate, values display and emphasises the external - it is an overt and celebratory mode devoid of thought. Because the spectacle and the continuation of a legal culture of spectacle stifles transformative constitutionalism, the submission is that there should be a refusal of spectacle in South African legal culture and a return to the ordinary. The notion of refusal comes from an article by Karin Van Marle, and links with a critical and slower approach. Ndebele introduces rediscovery of the ordinary, which is related to the concept of the everyday. Opposed to the spectacle, refusal and the ordinary favours contemplation and commemoration. This leads to a view on approaching history, constitutionalism, democracy and rights as refusal of spectacle and rediscovery of the ordinary. It is an attempt to rethink South Africa’s legal culture in order to move closer to the aims of transformative constitutionalism. Following the aesthetic turn in South African jurisprudence, this dissertation makes use of literary examples to illustrate the arguments. Ndebele’s The Cry of Winnie Mandela and Eben Venter’s Horrelpoot introduce the themes of storytelling, travelling and post-colonialism and aptly expands on the call for a refusal of spectacle. Jurisprudence LLM Unrestricted 2013-09-07T13:05:56Z 2009-10-02 2013-09-07T13:05:56Z 2009-09-02 2009-10-02 2009-09-27 Dissertation De Villiers, I 2009-10-02, South African legal culture in a transformative context, LLM Dissertation, University of Pretoria, Pretoria, viewed yymmdd <http://hdl.handle.net/2263/28235> E1483/ag http://hdl.handle.net/2263/28235 http://upetd.up.ac.za/thesis/available/etd-09272009-155336/ © 2009, University of Pretoria. All rights reserved. The copyright in this work vests in the University of Pretoria. No part of this work may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, without the prior written permission of the University of Pretoria. application/pdf application/pdf application/pdf University of Pretoria |
| spellingShingle | Transformative constitutionalism Legal culture UCTD South African legal culture in a transformative context |
| title | South African legal culture in a transformative context |
| title_full | South African legal culture in a transformative context |
| title_fullStr | South African legal culture in a transformative context |
| title_full_unstemmed | South African legal culture in a transformative context |
| title_short | South African legal culture in a transformative context |
| title_sort | south african legal culture in a transformative context |
| topic | Transformative constitutionalism Legal culture UCTD |
| url | http://hdl.handle.net/2263/28235 http://upetd.up.ac.za/thesis/available/etd-09272009-155336/ |