1st Edition
Conquest, Constitutionalism and Democratic Contestations South African Perspectives
1. Introduction: conquest, constitutionalism and democratic contestations
Joel M. Modiri
2. Conquest and constitutionalism: first thoughts on an alternative jurisprudence
Joel M. Modiri
3. Towards a post-conquest South Africa: beyond the constitution of 1996
Mogobe Bernard Ramose
4. Decolonising equality: the radical roots of the gender equality clause in the South African constitution
Shireen Hassim
5. Is the South African Constitution an obstacle to a democratic post-colonial state?
D. M. Davis
6. Democratic constitutionalism in the time of the postcolony: beyond triumph and betrayal
Firoz Cachalia
7. On conquest and anthropology in South Africa
Anjuli Webster
8. The liberation of history and the end of South Africa: some notes towards an Azanian historiography in Africa, South
Ndumiso Dladla
9. Contested substantive equality in the South African Constitution: beyond social inclusion towards systemic justice
Catherine Albertyn
10. Decolonisation, compensation and constitutionalism: land, wealth and the sustainability of constitutionalism in post-apartheid South Africa
Heinz Klug
11. A decolonial critique of private law and human rights
Emile Zitzke
12. South Africa’s first black lawyers, amaRespectables and the birth of evolutionary constitution
Tshepo Madlingozi
Biography
Joel M. Modiri is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Jurisprudence at the University of Pretoria, South Africa, and an Associate Editor of the South African Journal on Human Rights. He holds an LLB cum laude, and his PhD thesis was entitled The Jurisprudence of Steve Biko: A Study in Race, Law and Power in the ‘Afterlife’ of Colonial-apartheid. He mainly teaches in the fields of Social Theory, Race and Law, and Legal Philosophy.
