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Shivji, Issa G. Law, State and the Working Class in Tanzania, c. 1920-1964
No full textGutkind Peter C. Shivji, Issa G. Law, State and the Working Class in Tanzania, c. 1920-1964. In: Cahiers d'études africaines, vol. 27, n°107-108, 1987. Mémoires, Histoires, Identités. pp. 450-452
Marx, Lenin and Pashukanis on self-determination: response to Robert Knox
No full textThis response to Robert Knox’s very kind and constructive review1 of my 2008 book The
Degradation of the International Legal Order?: The Rehabilitation of Law and the Possibility of
Politics gives me the opportunity not only to answer some of his criticisms, but also, on the basis
of my own reflections since 2008, to fill in some gaps. Indeed, to revise a number of my
arguments. First, I restate my attempt at a materialist account of human rights. Next I explain
why, for me, the right of peoples to self-determination is absolutely central to a materialist
understanding of human rights; and also fill a serious gap in my own account in the book. This
leads me not only to a reply to Robert Knox on the question of ‘indeterminacy’ in international
law, but also to a disagreement with him on the use or misuse of the language of self-determination.
My fourth section returns to our very different evaluations of the significance and meaning of
the work of Yevgeny Pashukanis, and what, for me, is Pashukanis’s misunderstanding, for
reasons consistent with his general theoretical trajectory, of Marx and Lenin on the Irish
question. Finally, I present an outline of a re-evaluation of Marx’s principled position on
self-determination
Reflections on NGOs in Tanzania: what we are, what we are not, and what we ought to be
No full textNGOs and social activists run the risk of following the policy directions favoured by foreign donor agencies to the detriment of their own organisational and moral capacity to act in solidarity with those whose interests they claim to support. With specific reference to Tanzania, the author argues that while NGOs readily take action to protect their own interests, they do not consistently stand up for the basic freedoms of working people. In a unipolar era, which holds that the age of politics and international solidarity is over, it is vital for NGOs and other social activists to keep alive the belief that an alternative to the existing world is both necessary and possible
The Concept of Human Rights in Africa
No full textHitherto the human rights debate in Africa has concentrated on the legal and philosophical. The author, Professor of Law at the University of Dar es Salaam, here moves the debate to the social and political planes. He attempts to reconceptualise human rights ideology from the standpoint of the working people in Africa. He defines the approach as avoiding the pitfalls of the liberal perspective as being absolutist in viewing human rights as a central question and the rights struggle as the backbone of democratic struggles. The author maintains that such a study cannot be politically neutral or intellectually uncommitted. Both the critique of dominant discourse and the reconceptualisation are located within the current social science and jurisprudential debates
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Get PDFThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Variations on the Author
Get PDF“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
Using transformative constitutions to build counter-hegemonic consciousness in society: Response to Professor Justice Willy Mutunga’s inaugural lecture at Kabarak School of Law, In search and defence of radical legal education: A personal footnote on 28 January 2022: Issa Shivji
Get PDFTo start with, Vice Chancellor, Professor Justice ndugu comrade Willy Mutunga, eminent academic community, distinguished guests and participants, and friends and comrades. I’d like to start off by congratulating the Vice Chancellor for ‘capturing a person of Professor Mutunga’s calibre’. As it has been said, Professor Mutunga comes with a lot of experience at the bar, at the bench, in academia, and in civil society. And I am sure any university in the world would be proud to be able to get a person like Professor Mutunga on its faculty and staff
Do Constitutions Matter? The Dilemma of a Radical Lawyer
Get PDFConstitutions do not make revolutions. Revolutions make constitutions. No constitution envisages its own death for that is what a revolution entail. But constitutions matter. Some of the finest constitutions have been erected on ugly socio-economic formations wrought with extreme inequalities and inequities. South Africa and Kenya are examples. But constitutions do matter. Constitutions rarely herald fundamental transformations. They are the product of major transformations to consolidate the new status quo. Yet constitutions do matter. Why do constitutions matter? Why do we need constitutions? Why does every revolution and major change in modern societies birth new constitutions
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