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Browsing Research Articles (Philosophy) by UP Author "Kistner, Ulrike"
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Kistner, Ulrike
(Springer, 2015-02)
The legal doctrine of ‘common purpose’ in South African criminal
law considers all parties liable who have been in implicit or explicit agreement
to commit an unlawful act, and associated with each other for that purpose, ...
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Kistner, Ulrike
(Fundación Telefónica, 2011)
Walter Benjamin’s famous statement in the eighth of his “Theses on the
Philosophy of History,” that “the state of [exception] in which we live is
not the exception but the rule,”1 has become as normalized as its ...
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Kistner, Ulrike
(OpenJournals Publishing, 2014-11-20)
Between the sphere of civil society associated with the idea of active, democratic citizenship,
and the governance of precariously living populations ‘in most of the world’ (i.e. not simply ‘in
the margins’), lies the ...
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Kistner, Ulrike
(SUNMeDIA, 2014)
Confronted by the charge of depoliticisation levelled at human rights frameworks and
interventions, I investigate the possibility of a politics of human rights at the core of
democratic politics. In doing so, I am guided ...
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Kistner, Ulrike
(AOSIS, 2021-08-05)
In his writings on culture, Freud stipulates a close relation between religion and
psychopathology, and obsessional neurosis in particular. In this article, I would like to explore
the nature of that relation. How is it ...
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Kistner, Ulrike
(Springer, 2014-12)
A sociology of knowledge of a specific kind, namely that emerging from
observations on the work of scientific thought collectives, is what Thomas Kuhn
acknowledges as Ludwik Fleck’s (Denkstile und Tatsachen. Gesammelte ...
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Kistner, Ulrike
(Routledge, 2015-03)
This article investigates some accounts of conspicuous consumption in South Africa,
tracing their variously linear, circular and disjunctive paths, identifying and explaining some
methodological impasses, and concluding ...
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Kistner, Ulrike
(OpenJournals Publishing, 2015-11-16)
This article examines the relation between the University of Pretoria and the City of
Tshwane, outlining seven different kinds of relation as they have taken shape historically.
The first type relation between the ...
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Kistner, Ulrike
(Routledge, 2012)
In his article, ‘Still searching for “the human”’, Premesh Lalu (2012, p. 1) decries
the National Research Foundation’s decision to fund 60 new chairs at universities
in South Africa, to foster research in line with the ...
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Kistner, Ulrike
(Transformation, 2011)
The academic institution in which I work makes of me – unintentionally on
my part – a sociographic observer. The first thing to be noted in this
sociography concerns the changing definition of the role of the university
that ...
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Kistner, Ulrike
(SUNMeDIA, 2014)
Unprocedural strike action accompanied by high levels of violence pose challenges to union collective bargaining and other representative structures and institutions, evoking notions of the unruly crowd threatening ...