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African Ubuntu and its View on Law, Human Rights and Sustainable Development Goals

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By (author): Dorine E. van Norren

This innovative account of wellbeing perspectives of (South) African Ubuntu philosophy sheds new light on sustainability debates. It questions the universality of the UN Sustainable Development Goals. The slogan of the Goals, Leave non-one behind, begs the question of who is behind and who is ahead. Development is caught in the logic of linear sustainable growth of nations and centres around the flourishing of the individual instead of the community. 'Life is mutual aid' would be the African approach, which includes a logic of sharing, affirming that one's humanity is tied to others.With concrete examples of policies, law, jurisprudence on Ubuntu and practice from South Africa, this book is a must read for philosophers willing to think beyond European philosophy, development economists interested in reshaping today's paradigms, innovative human rights lawyers with a social heart, anthropologists who yearn for a dialogue between worldviews of the Global South and science, and all people who seek new meaning in today's society. See more
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Product Details
  • Dimensions: 148 x 212mm
  • Publication Date: 01 Dec 2024
  • Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
  • Publication City/Country: United Kingdom
  • Language: English
  • ISBN13: 9781036415396

About Dorine E. van Norren

Dorine E. van Norren is an associate researcher at the University of Leiden the Netherlands (Law) and Pretoria South Africa (Decoloniality). She studied law in Amsterdam and Cape Town and French in Lyon. She has a Master's in International and Dutch Law from Free University Amsterdam the Netherlands (1995) and a PhD in Law and Development Studies from Tilburg and Amsterdam University the Netherlands (2017). She did field research for her PhD in Ecuador Bhutan South Africa and at the UN in New York and Paris. She has published articles in world-renowned journals and books with respected publishers. She worked as a diplomat in Sri Lanka and Turkey and held several positions at the Netherlands Ministry of Foreign Affairs (Southern Africa North America European Integration departments). She worked for the Advisory Council of International Affairs. She was Coordinator for UNESCO human rights and SDGs at the Ministry of Education Science and Culture including UNESCO Commission advisory member. Currently she is Strategic Advisor Western Hemisphere.The book is written on a personal title.

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