Karin Van Marle
Biographic Data
| ID | 1354571 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Karin Van Marle |
| GIVEN NAMES | Karin |
| FAMILY NAME | Van Marle |
| SIGNATURE | VAN MARLE K |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Pretoria |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-7798-0962 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 23 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 16 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 21 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 2 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2003 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Poetics of Solidarity
The article asks to what extent rights in their current institutional forms can alter the lives of those affected by patriarchy, discrimination and other infringements. The question does not only address the capacity or success of rights to bring about significant change, but also the extent to which rights ensnare those who rely on them in the very same relations of oppression they are seeking to escape. This article explores perspectives that d…
Cornell in South Africa
The Dream of Justice”
In the piece below the author, inspired by David Scott (Stuart Hall 2017), writes a letter to the late Drucilla Cornell. She starts off by drawing on Scott’s invocation of “An ethics of receptive generosity” in relation to Hall and attributes such ethics also to Cornell. Cornell, did not only give but also knew how to receive from others. Her engagement with her own context, the different legal theoretical positions in the US legal academy at the…
Models of Hospitality
Responsibility, refusal, and return
In this article written in honour of Desmond Tutu, I raise inclination as put forward by Cavarero, together with disorientation/reorientation, as per Ahmed and Honig, to think differently about law, rule of law, and legal culture. Drawing on Ndebele, Klare and Van der Walt, I consider inclination as being also about abandoning those vertical and upright certitudes acquired by habit and culture. An ethics and ontology of inclination could, by way …
University Spaces as Sites of Conscience
In this article, I reflect on the idea of university spaces as potential sites of conscience. I explore how these spaces act not only as continuous reminders of past violence, marginalization, and exclusion, but as reminders also of ethical accountability and redress. The latter discloses opportunities and possibilities for a reinterpretation of such spaces, keeping in mind that the traces of the past will remain and that every attempt at erasure…
Gewete, transformasie en herinnering op die Rooiplein
In this article, I rely on a number of theoretical approaches to reflect on the possibility of the transformation of universities, in particular the University of the Free State (UFS). A starting point is the role of public space in a transforming society with emphasis on universities as public spaces. A ‘site of conscience’ approach, namely an approach to public space that endorses a critical and active engagement with the past to reflect on end…
Spatial Injustice
Josephine Jarpa Dawuni and Akua Kuenyehia
Life is Not Simply Fact
The Limits of Transition
The South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission was a noble attempt to begin to address the continuing traumatic legacy of Apartheid. This interdisciplinary collection critiques the work of the TRC 20 years since its establishment. Taking the paralysing political and social crises of the mid-1990s in South Africa as starting point, the book contains a collection of responses to the TRC that considers the notions of crisis, judgment and soci…
Andreas Philippopoulos‐Mihalopoulos
Henri Lefebvre. Spatial politics, everyday life and the right to the city
Chris Butler in the introduction of Henri Lefebvre. Spatial Politics, Everyday Life and the Right to the City states that the book has a two-fold aim: it first explores the philosophical and social
Ubuntu feminism
The starting-point for the article is to provide a brief background on the Ubuntu Project that Prof. Drucilla Cornell convened in 2003; most notably the interviews conducted in Khayamandi, the support of a sewing collective, and the continued search to launch an Ubuntu Women s Centre. The article will reflect on some of the philosophical underpinnings of ubuntu, whereafter debates in Western feminism will be revisited. Ubuntu feminism is suggeste…
Poverty and the Ordinary Law
During 2012 a research project on the relationship between law and poverty, titled Poverty and Justice, was launched in the Faculty of Law of the University of Pretoria. The starting point and broad background to the project is the assertion that poverty is an injustice and the implicit flipside of that claim, that justice is the absence of poverty. The basic contention of the project is that any view of poverty as a practical social problem in t…
Law and Resistance in the City of Pretoria
In this article the authors focus on a 2012 decision by the South African Constitutional Court concerning the eviction of those who inhabited an apartment building, Schubartpark, in the city of Pretoria. They trace the history of the building back to its original construction and the events that led to the eviction in 2011. The narrative of the building and its inhabitants is situated against the background of the interrelation between history, l…
We Exist, but Who Are We?’ Feminism and the Power of Sociological Law
Special Issue
On loneliness and the value of slow reflection
In this article, the author considers the relationship of law, morality and reconciliation. Intrigued by the political and ethical stances taken by Arendt and McCarthy, the author supports notions of detachment, slowness and social reconciliation concerning contemporary political and ethical questions
The Spectacle of Post-Apartheid Constitutionalism
In this paper, I reflect on constitutionalism, law and politics in the reconstruction of the South African state. I identify two possible approaches to the constitution: monumental and memorial constitutionalism. A monumental approach is connected to Njabulo Ndebele's critique on spectacle and a memorial approach to his call for a rediscovery of the ordinary. Two artworks, William Kentridge's Black Box and Judith Mason's Blue Dress, as well as a …
Post-apartheid Fragments
The Capabilities Approach', `The Imaginary Domain', and `Asymmetrical Reciprocity
Law’s Time, Particularity and Slowness
The article compares law's time and its effects on how we understand and approach law and legal interpretation, to other concepts of time. It explores two trends: one, asking for a disruption of a chronological and a linear conception of time that could contribute to an acceptance of the notion of multiple truths and fluidity of meanings and the other, supporting the notion of slowness, where difference and particularity can be explored and recog…
Ubuntu feminism
The starting-point for the article is to provide a brief background on the Ubuntu Project that Prof. Drucilla Cornell convened in 2003; most notably the interviews conducted in Khayamandi, the support of a sewing collective, and the continued search to launch an Ubuntu Women s Centre. The article will reflect on some of the philosophical underpinnings of ubuntu, whereafter debates in Western feminism will be revisited. Ubuntu feminism is suggeste…
Life is Not Simply Fact
The Capabilities Approach', `The Imaginary Domain', and `Asymmetrical Reciprocity
University Spaces as Sites of Conscience
In this article, I reflect on the idea of university spaces as potential sites of conscience. I explore how these spaces act not only as continuous reminders of past violence, marginalization, and exclusion, but as reminders also of ethical accountability and redress. The latter discloses opportunities and possibilities for a reinterpretation of such spaces, keeping in mind that the traces of the past will remain and that every attempt at erasure…
Special Issue
Law’s Time, Particularity and Slowness
The article compares law's time and its effects on how we understand and approach law and legal interpretation, to other concepts of time. It explores two trends: one, asking for a disruption of a chronological and a linear conception of time that could contribute to an acceptance of the notion of multiple truths and fluidity of meanings and the other, supporting the notion of slowness, where difference and particularity can be explored and recog…
The Capabilities Approach', `The Imaginary Domain', and `Asymmetrical Reciprocity
Law’s Time, Particularity and Slowness
The article compares law's time and its effects on how we understand and approach law and legal interpretation, to other concepts of time. It explores two trends: one, asking for a disruption of a chronological and a linear conception of time that could contribute to an acceptance of the notion of multiple truths and fluidity of meanings and the other, supporting the notion of slowness, where difference and particularity can be explored and recog…
Post-apartheid Fragments
The Spectacle of Post-Apartheid Constitutionalism
In this paper, I reflect on constitutionalism, law and politics in the reconstruction of the South African state. I identify two possible approaches to the constitution: monumental and memorial constitutionalism. A monumental approach is connected to Njabulo Ndebele's critique on spectacle and a memorial approach to his call for a rediscovery of the ordinary. Two artworks, William Kentridge's Black Box and Judith Mason's Blue Dress, as well as a …
On loneliness and the value of slow reflection
In this article, the author considers the relationship of law, morality and reconciliation. Intrigued by the political and ethical stances taken by Arendt and McCarthy, the author supports notions of detachment, slowness and social reconciliation concerning contemporary political and ethical questions
We Exist, but Who Are We?’ Feminism and the Power of Sociological Law
Special Issue
Poverty and the Ordinary Law
During 2012 a research project on the relationship between law and poverty, titled Poverty and Justice, was launched in the Faculty of Law of the University of Pretoria. The starting point and broad background to the project is the assertion that poverty is an injustice and the implicit flipside of that claim, that justice is the absence of poverty. The basic contention of the project is that any view of poverty as a practical social problem in t…
Law and Resistance in the City of Pretoria
In this article the authors focus on a 2012 decision by the South African Constitutional Court concerning the eviction of those who inhabited an apartment building, Schubartpark, in the city of Pretoria. They trace the history of the building back to its original construction and the events that led to the eviction in 2011. The narrative of the building and its inhabitants is situated against the background of the interrelation between history, l…
Henri Lefebvre. Spatial politics, everyday life and the right to the city
Chris Butler in the introduction of Henri Lefebvre. Spatial Politics, Everyday Life and the Right to the City states that the book has a two-fold aim: it first explores the philosophical and social
Ubuntu feminism
The starting-point for the article is to provide a brief background on the Ubuntu Project that Prof. Drucilla Cornell convened in 2003; most notably the interviews conducted in Khayamandi, the support of a sewing collective, and the continued search to launch an Ubuntu Women s Centre. The article will reflect on some of the philosophical underpinnings of ubuntu, whereafter debates in Western feminism will be revisited. Ubuntu feminism is suggeste…
Andreas Philippopoulos‐Mihalopoulos
The Limits of Transition
The South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission was a noble attempt to begin to address the continuing traumatic legacy of Apartheid. This interdisciplinary collection critiques the work of the TRC 20 years since its establishment. Taking the paralysing political and social crises of the mid-1990s in South Africa as starting point, the book contains a collection of responses to the TRC that considers the notions of crisis, judgment and soci…
Life is Not Simply Fact
Spatial Injustice
Josephine Jarpa Dawuni and Akua Kuenyehia
Responsibility, refusal, and return
In this article written in honour of Desmond Tutu, I raise inclination as put forward by Cavarero, together with disorientation/reorientation, as per Ahmed and Honig, to think differently about law, rule of law, and legal culture. Drawing on Ndebele, Klare and Van der Walt, I consider inclination as being also about abandoning those vertical and upright certitudes acquired by habit and culture. An ethics and ontology of inclination could, by way …
University Spaces as Sites of Conscience
In this article, I reflect on the idea of university spaces as potential sites of conscience. I explore how these spaces act not only as continuous reminders of past violence, marginalization, and exclusion, but as reminders also of ethical accountability and redress. The latter discloses opportunities and possibilities for a reinterpretation of such spaces, keeping in mind that the traces of the past will remain and that every attempt at erasure…
Gewete, transformasie en herinnering op die Rooiplein
In this article, I rely on a number of theoretical approaches to reflect on the possibility of the transformation of universities, in particular the University of the Free State (UFS). A starting point is the role of public space in a transforming society with emphasis on universities as public spaces. A ‘site of conscience’ approach, namely an approach to public space that endorses a critical and active engagement with the past to reflect on end…
Models of Hospitality
Cornell in South Africa
The Dream of Justice”
In the piece below the author, inspired by David Scott (Stuart Hall 2017), writes a letter to the late Drucilla Cornell. She starts off by drawing on Scott’s invocation of “An ethics of receptive generosity” in relation to Hall and attributes such ethics also to Cornell. Cornell, did not only give but also knew how to receive from others. Her engagement with her own context, the different legal theoretical positions in the US legal academy at the…
Poetics of Solidarity
The article asks to what extent rights in their current institutional forms can alter the lives of those affected by patriarchy, discrimination and other infringements. The question does not only address the capacity or success of rights to bring about significant change, but also the extent to which rights ensnare those who rely on them in the very same relations of oppression they are seeking to escape. This article explores perspectives that d…
Political science (18 works) · Law (17 works) · Sociology (15 works) · Law (14 works) · Politics (9 works) · Law in Society and Culture (6 works) · Art (5 works) · Economic Justice (5 works) · Feminism (5 works) · Aesthetics (4 works)