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environmental governance (LEG) matters listed in Schedules 4B and 5B of the Constitution, thus making municipal councils the highest South African authority with legal and political powers in local communities ... political powers in local communities. This article uses the constitutions, policies, and manifestos of political parties active in the local government sphere to ascertain the role of political parties in
This study explored the role played by economic, cultural, and political power and influence when a particular dialect was elevated to the status of an official standard language. This was a ... . However, these dialects were considered superior and elevated to the status of official languages because of socio-economic power and political influence. This article further recorded that the status type
processes of coping with pain. The text highlights the political position against the construction of alternative memory, gestated from below and the pedagogical practices that are installed there and that ... aforementioned groups, who through spaces for listening and participation assume an ethical-political place in the narrative, of relationship, of dialogue and of horizontal co-interpretation, in which one co
White colonial ideology was produced as a result of the fractured nature of the relations - social, political and economic - between black and white in the colony of Natal. Apart from the racial ... of the fractured nature of the relations - social, political and economic - between black and white. This contribution focusses on the lives and careers of prison officials in colonial Natal between
This article claims the epistemological and political value of three community processes generated within the Colombian armed conflict, which are exercises in nonviolent civil resistance by involving
Abimael Guzmán, and Wilfredo Mujica, former director of the Former Political Prisoners Association of Peru. This research will allow us to contrast the efforts of the PCP-SL with those of other Latin
formation of communist groups in Guatemala, and the transgressions and vexations they exercised on political power. The structure of this paper is focused on 3 objectives, the first is to present the front
concerned, is limited by law's neglect of the socio-political identity of women as mothers, which is rooted in history. This failure reaffirms that law is implicated in contemporary socioeconomic ... strain caused by the COVID-19 pandemic (the pandemic). As a political terrain motherhood has long been a subject of feminist inquiry, thus poor motherhood ought not be marginalised in the human-rights
A glance at political theory reveals a preoccupation with the corrosive nature of power, in particular with how to ensure that the governors are sufficiently accountable to the governed. Legislative ... primarily in countries ruled by dominant political parties where party loyalism blurs the line of state accountability.1 Although political corruption is a symptom of a bigger malaise, the danger to
predecessors and successors to give the reader a better idea of the personality behind the name. Important judicial (or political) events that took place during each individual's term in office are also ... constant and were marked by division, political dissension and civil strife.8 Unsurprisingly, each new regime wanted to appoint their own supporters in important government positions. This naturally impacted
The article tries to contribute to the destruction of the helenocentric and eurocentric vision of universal history that has excluded Latin America from antiquity, from philosophy, politics ... philosophy, politics, education, and religion. Likewise, we will reinforce the thesis that the origin of Greek philosophy is Egyptian, and it is also black. F. Hegel thinks that the history of the absolute
Constitutions and other legal frameworks are expected to ensure the protection of the fundamental and collective rights of citizens. In this respect, the regulation of political parties is a global ... constitutional and legal regulation of political parties in the Central African Republic (hereafter CAR) and Senegal, two francophone countries with different trajectories and experiences of multi-party democracy
This article discusses the political relations between the elites of the Colombian Caribbean coast and the national government, during the presidency of Carlos Eugenio Restrepo, born in Antioquia ... their power tensions with the central government, were fundamental as political pressure mechanisms, and intervened in the regionalization process of this part of the country. These pressures were
political commentary that accompanies and underpins it. Building on these insights, the present study investigates Bosman's preoccupation with South Africa's politics in order to determine whether he could be ... analyses selected texts in terms of their political themes - five short stories from the collections Ramoutsa Road (1987), Unto Dust (1991) and the novel Willemsdorp (written in 1951, first published in 1977
A number of landmark judicial review decisions and the resultant political backlash are arguably to supportive of the claim that political and legal constitutionalism are entrenched in South Africa ... Pluralist Perspective" in Besson S and Tasioulas J (eds) The Philosophy of International Law (Oxford University Press Oxford 2010) 261-280 [ Links ] Craig "Political Constitutionalism and Judicial
that: [t]he political philosophy of the annihilation of enemies has underpinned ZANU-PF's attitude to state power not only during the liberation struggle and the 1980 election; it has been ... , deformed, non-existent and uncanny, embodies and stitches together pervasive economic, social and political crises that confront Zimbabwe and Zimbabweans in the post-2000 period (Jones 2010). This article
In contrast with the early years of space flight that were dominated by the political priorities and military concerns of the two superpowers, the USA and the then Soviet Union, a new space era has ... space flight that were dominated by the political priorities and military concerns of the two superpowers, the United States of America (USA) and the then Soviet Union,3 a new space era has dawned where
] DeLanda, M. (2006). A New Philosophy of Society. Assemblage Theory and Social Complexity. London, England: Continuum. [ Links ] García, M. & M. Uribe. (2012). Contextos de uso de las plantas vinculadas ... del hombre andino con la fauna altiplánica. Estudios Atácamenos, 7, 335-347. [ Links ] Hale, Ch. & Millamán, R. (2006). Cultural agency and political strugggle in the Era of the "Indio Permitido". In
In some democracies judiciaries have developed the political question doctrine to jurisprudentially resolve political questions and define their relationship with other branches of government. This
time and the gender of the reigning monarch, has exemplified either the negative or the positive attitudes required from a national icon. I will suggest that social, religious and political ... the figure of Boudica for political purposes rather than for her historical value. I then trace this form of ideological manipulation through the Renaissance and into the Victorian period. Various
