Ludic Ubuntu Ethics - Decolonizing Justice

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
Bibliography

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.

Summary

Ludic Ubuntu Ethics develops a positive peace vision, taking a bold look at African and Indigenous justice practices and proposes new relational justice models.

Product details

• Authors: Mechthild Nagel, Mechthild (Mechthild Nagel Is Professor At Nagel, Nagel Mechthild
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 27.05.2024
• EAN: 9780367518257
• ISBN: 978-0-367-51825-7
• No. of pages: 222
• Series: Routledge Studies in Penal Abolition and Transformative Justice
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > Politics, society, business > Politics; Social sciences, law, business > Law > Criminal law, criminal procedural law, criminology; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Criminology, Crime and criminology, Crime & criminology