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Ludic Ubuntu Ethics develops a positive peace vision, taking a bold look at African and Indigenous justice practices and proposes new relational justice models.
List of contents
Introduction
1 Just-us or Justice as Vengeance
2 Policing Families: The Many-Headed Hydra of Surveillance
3 The Context of Insurrectionist Justice: Resisting the Looting of Black Bodies
4 Between Ressentiment and Forgiveness: Transitional Justice in Rwanda and South Africa
5 A Transformative Justice Paradigm: A Call for Ludic Ubuntu Justice
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About the author
Mechthild Nagel is Professor of Philosophy & Africana Studies and Director of the Center for Ethics, Peace, and Social Justice at the State University of New York, College at Cortland, USA. Dr. Nagel is also a visiting professor at Fulda University of Applied Sciences, Germany and Pompeu Fabra University, Barcelona, Spain. She is author of eight books. Her most recent co-edited volume is Contesting Carceral Logic: Towards Abolitionist Futures (Routledge, 2022). She writes on ethics of play, critical justice studies, global feminist studies, and African philosophy. Dr. Nagel is founder and editor-in-chief of the online feminist journal Wagadu: A Journal of Transnational Women’s and Gender Studies.
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Ludic Ubuntu Ethics develops a positive peace vision, taking a bold look at African and Indigenous justice practices and proposes new relational justice models.
