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Die Moontlikeid van Postmoderne Regsinterpretasie : 'Country of My Skull' gelees vanuit 'n Sosiaal Konstruksionistiese Perspektief

Dissertation (LLM)--University of Pretoria, 2003.

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spelling oai:repository.up.ac.za:2263/45472 Die Moontlikeid van Postmoderne Regsinterpretasie : 'Country of My Skull' gelees vanuit 'n Sosiaal Konstruksionistiese Perspektief Van Marle, Karin christiaan@snu.ac.kr Prinsloo, Christiaan M.S. UCTD Law theses SDG-16 SDG-16: Peace, justice and strong institutions Dissertation (LLM)--University of Pretoria, 2003. For decades legal positivism has governed the interpretation and application of the law in South Africa. This modernist utilisation of interpretative rules and the application of the law as it is, rather than as it ought to be, led to many historical injustices. Although numerous attempts have been made to alter the interpretative system these attempts are in vain and appear to be variations on the same modernist tune. In this thesis, as an alternative to the prevalent interpretative stance, I merely suggest a transformation by exploring the possibility of postmodern legal interpretation. Although the postmodern movement causes havoc in structuralist 'sciences' this does not mean that it is a laissez-faire approach where 'everything goes' or where all systems of structure are abandoned. In order to overcome our modernist insecurities I propose that we, as a first step, merely adopt a postmodern consciousness. This stance can be acquired by utilising the assumptions of a postmodern movement called social constructionism. The advances of this perspective, which has its roots in the social psychology, shall serve as an interpretative mind set when exploring the various narratives in County of My Skull by Antjie Krog. Krog utilises the narratives of the TRC in an attempt to overcome the inequalities of the past. This literary text can be regarded as a catalyst that initiates the interpretation of legal texts from a social constructionist perspective. The hybridisation of social constructionism and the literary text leads the way for the possibility of postmodern legal interpretation. tm2015 Jurisprudence LLM Unrestricted 2015-06-12T07:55:51Z 2015-06-12T07:55:51Z 2004 2015 Dissertation Prinsloo, CM 2015, Die Moontlikeid van Postmoderne Regsinterpretasie : 'Country of My Skull' gelees vanuit 'n Sosiaal Konstruksionistiese Perspektief, LLM Dissertation, University of Pretoria, Pretoria, viewed yymmdd <http://hdl.handle.net/2263/45472> M15/4/23 http://hdl.handle.net/2263/45472 Afrikaans © 2015 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 University of Pretoria
spellingShingle UCTD
Law theses SDG-16
SDG-16: Peace, justice and strong institutions
Die Moontlikeid van Postmoderne Regsinterpretasie : 'Country of My Skull' gelees vanuit 'n Sosiaal Konstruksionistiese Perspektief
title Die Moontlikeid van Postmoderne Regsinterpretasie : 'Country of My Skull' gelees vanuit 'n Sosiaal Konstruksionistiese Perspektief
title_full Die Moontlikeid van Postmoderne Regsinterpretasie : 'Country of My Skull' gelees vanuit 'n Sosiaal Konstruksionistiese Perspektief
title_fullStr Die Moontlikeid van Postmoderne Regsinterpretasie : 'Country of My Skull' gelees vanuit 'n Sosiaal Konstruksionistiese Perspektief
title_full_unstemmed Die Moontlikeid van Postmoderne Regsinterpretasie : 'Country of My Skull' gelees vanuit 'n Sosiaal Konstruksionistiese Perspektief
title_short Die Moontlikeid van Postmoderne Regsinterpretasie : 'Country of My Skull' gelees vanuit 'n Sosiaal Konstruksionistiese Perspektief
title_sort die moontlikeid van postmoderne regsinterpretasie country of my skull gelees vanuit n sosiaal konstruksionistiese perspektief
topic UCTD
Law theses SDG-16
SDG-16: Peace, justice and strong institutions
url http://hdl.handle.net/2263/45472