Sovereign responsibility : an impossible solidarity

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dc.contributor.author Molapo, Sepetla
dc.date.accessioned 2022-11-21T10:14:57Z
dc.date.available 2022-11-21T10:14:57Z
dc.date.issued 2022-09-09
dc.description.abstract This article takes interest in solidarity as sovereign responsibility. Sovereign responsibility is a nonproductive form of care that emerges at the interface of order defined by a privileging of economy and a general economy defined by a return to order of life lost to death. It is this return that unveils the existence and operations of a general economy that order presupposes. The article locates its discussion of sovereign responsibility at two levels of relationality. Firstly, it situates its deliberations concerning sovereign responsibility in the family and among kin. Here it argues that as a form of solidarity, sovereign responsibility positions relations among kin as those of neighbours. Secondly, it shows that the question of the neighbour extends beyond kinship relations and into the realm of extra-kinship relations where others and strangers appear as neighbours. The overall argument of the article is that sovereign responsibility holds potential to facilitate an Afro Centred and counter-hegemonic response to the modern experience of alienation. CONTRIBUTION: The modern experience of alienation, as well as how it can be challenged, are of interest to this article. The article recognises that numerous attempts have been made to try and address this problematic of alienation in modernity. What it claims has not been done is to engage that problem by taking Africa as an idea, and not just geography, seriously. en_US
dc.description.department Sociology en_US
dc.description.uri http://www.hts.org.za en_US
dc.identifier.citation Molapo, S., 2022, ‘Sovereign responsibility: An impossible solidarity’, HTS Teologiese Studies/Theological Studies 78(2), a7743. https://doi.org/10.4102/hts.v78i2.7743. en_US
dc.identifier.issn 0259-9422 (print)
dc.identifier.issn 2072-8050 (online)
dc.identifier.other 10.4102/hts.v78i2.7743
dc.identifier.uri https://repository.up.ac.za/handle/2263/88378
dc.language.iso en en_US
dc.publisher AOSIS en_US
dc.rights © 2022. The Author. Licensee: AOSIS. This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution License. en_US
dc.subject Solidarity en_US
dc.subject Sovereign responsibility en_US
dc.subject Death en_US
dc.subject Neighbour en_US
dc.subject Order en_US
dc.subject General economy en_US
dc.title Sovereign responsibility : an impossible solidarity en_US
dc.type Article en_US


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