Wairimu Njoya
Biographic Data
| ID | 4375979 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Wairimu Njoya |
| GIVEN NAMES | Wairimu |
| FAMILY NAME | Njoya |
| SIGNATURE | NJOYA W |
| AFFILIATIONS | Williams College |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-7970-6916 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 5 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 4 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 5 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2010 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Constitutional Generation: Recollecting Histories and Writing the Feminine with Drucilla Cornell
The potential of emancipatory social movements to generate new legal norms is a source of hope for feminist activists. Yet there are also serious doubts as to the impact that marginalized women can have on legal institutions and constitution-making. This tribute to Drucilla Cornell foregrounds her contributions to theorizing women’s movements as a source of social-cultural values that could spark constitutional transformation. While Cornell’s con…
The Progress of Law: Aeschylus’s Oresteia in Feminist and Critical Theory
The Oresteia is conventionally read as an account of progress from the age of private vendetta to the public order of legal justice. According to G.W.F. Hegel, an influential proponent of this view, the establishment of a court in Athens was the first step in the progressive universalization of law. For feminists and Frankfurt School theorists, in contrast, the Oresteia offers an account of the origins of patriarchy and class domination by legal …
Toni Morrison and political theory
Dignity as non-discrimination: Existential protests and legal claim-making for reproductive rights
Analysing two reproductive rights claims brought before the High Court of Namibia and the European Court of Human Rights, this article argues that human dignity is not reducible to a recognized warrant (a right) to demand a particular set of goods, services, or treatments. Rather, dignity in the contexts in which women experience sterilization abuse would be better characterized as an existential protest against degradation, a protest that takes …
Mindful of the Sacrifices Borne by Our Ancestors”: Terror, Historical Consciousness, and the Slave Sublime
This article contends that the arts have a crucial part to play in calling attention to the decline of America’s democratic traditions, while simultaneously enabling the recollection of what remains of ideals of liberty and justice in the wake of American empire. Following Cornel West, the author argues that the tragicomic hope that characterizes the musical and artistic heritage of blues people offers an incomparable resource for political renew…
The Progress of Law: Aeschylus’s Oresteia in Feminist and Critical Theory
The Oresteia is conventionally read as an account of progress from the age of private vendetta to the public order of legal justice. According to G.W.F. Hegel, an influential proponent of this view, the establishment of a court in Athens was the first step in the progressive universalization of law. For feminists and Frankfurt School theorists, in contrast, the Oresteia offers an account of the origins of patriarchy and class domination by legal …
Dignity as non-discrimination: Existential protests and legal claim-making for reproductive rights
Analysing two reproductive rights claims brought before the High Court of Namibia and the European Court of Human Rights, this article argues that human dignity is not reducible to a recognized warrant (a right) to demand a particular set of goods, services, or treatments. Rather, dignity in the contexts in which women experience sterilization abuse would be better characterized as an existential protest against degradation, a protest that takes …
Mindful of the Sacrifices Borne by Our Ancestors”: Terror, Historical Consciousness, and the Slave Sublime
This article contends that the arts have a crucial part to play in calling attention to the decline of America’s democratic traditions, while simultaneously enabling the recollection of what remains of ideals of liberty and justice in the wake of American empire. Following Cornel West, the author argues that the tragicomic hope that characterizes the musical and artistic heritage of blues people offers an incomparable resource for political renew…
Dignity as non-discrimination: Existential protests and legal claim-making for reproductive rights
Analysing two reproductive rights claims brought before the High Court of Namibia and the European Court of Human Rights, this article argues that human dignity is not reducible to a recognized warrant (a right) to demand a particular set of goods, services, or treatments. Rather, dignity in the contexts in which women experience sterilization abuse would be better characterized as an existential protest against degradation, a protest that takes …
The Progress of Law: Aeschylus’s Oresteia in Feminist and Critical Theory
The Oresteia is conventionally read as an account of progress from the age of private vendetta to the public order of legal justice. According to G.W.F. Hegel, an influential proponent of this view, the establishment of a court in Athens was the first step in the progressive universalization of law. For feminists and Frankfurt School theorists, in contrast, the Oresteia offers an account of the origins of patriarchy and class domination by legal …
Toni Morrison and political theory
Constitutional Generation: Recollecting Histories and Writing the Feminine with Drucilla Cornell
The potential of emancipatory social movements to generate new legal norms is a source of hope for feminist activists. Yet there are also serious doubts as to the impact that marginalized women can have on legal institutions and constitution-making. This tribute to Drucilla Cornell foregrounds her contributions to theorizing women’s movements as a source of social-cultural values that could spark constitutional transformation. While Cornell’s con…
Law (5 works) · Political science (5 works) · Sociology (5 works) · Law (4 works) · Politics (4 works) · Democracy (3 works) · Citizenship (2 works) · Dignity (2 works) · Economic Justice (2 works) · Epistemology (2 works)