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Faculty of Law
Department of Legal History, Comparative Law and Jurisprudence
Selected Highlights from Research Findings
The main focus of my research in feminism and political action involves a critical analysis of postapartheid South African life under a transformed legal, political and social order. Following philosophers and theorists who argue for continuous questioning (e.g. Hannah Arendt and Julia Kristeva) I argue that the pervasiveness of law and rights limits critical thought and action. Gender mainstreaming is a good example where possible co-option can take place in order to still any form of dissent from the outside. Related to the limits of the law analysis I reconfigure the constitution as 'archive' in order to expose law's tendency to close and to fix. From an ethical feminist perspective I search for other ways of living, and other forms of subjectivity and agency, in particular for women. My concern is an attempt to formulate a certain ethical and political way of living. Tentatively the argument rests on an exploration of three aspects: a life of resistance and revolt, a life of slowness and attention and a life of mourning. My research although inspired by jurisprudential concerns is interdisciplinary - it encompasses legal and political theory and philosophy and operates through examples from literature, film and art.
Contact person: Prof K van Marle.
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