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• Why the Need to Consider GIs in the South? / Cerkia Bramley, Estelle Biénabe
• Considerations in Designing an Appropriate Legal Framework for GIs in Southern Countries / Cerkia Bramley, Delphine Marie-Vivien
• Collective Action Dynamics and Product Reputation / Estelle Biénabe, Johann Kirsten
• Private Versus Public Quality Schemes for Origin-Labelled Products: Insights from the Karakul Pelts and Camdeboo Mohair Industries / Estelle Biénabe, Danie Jordaan
• Institution Building and Local Industry Dynamics: Lessons from the Rooibos GI Initiative / Dirk Troskie, Estelle Biénabe
• Guidelines for Selecting Successful GI Products / Cerkia Bramley, Estelle Biénabe.

This book contributes to the literature on Geographical Indications (GIs) by providing key theoretical reflections from a five-year review process on the potential of GIs for agri-food products in Southern Africa. The contributors reflect on diverse GI processes and dynamics which operate at the local, national and international levels, thus enriching the understanding of GI dynamics and of the variety of policy options available for GI protection in Southern countries. Following a discussion of the legal framework and governance of national GI schemes in Southern countries, the book emphasize.

• Is technology a fatal destiny? : Heidegger's for South Africa and all "developing" countries
• Socialism or radical democratic politics? : on Laclau and Mouffe
• Dignity violated : rethinking AZAPO through uBuntu
• Which law, whose humanity? : the significance of policulturalism in the Global South
• Living customary law and the law : does custom allow for a woman to be Hosi?
• uBuntu, pluralism, and the responsibility of legal academics
• Rethinking ethical feminism through uBuntu
• Is there a difference that makes a difference between dignity and uBuntu?
• Where dignity ends and uBuntu begins : a response by Yvonne Mokgoro and Stuart Woolman.

This study grapples with fundamental questions regarding what type of revolution took place in South Africa over a more then 50 year long struggle. Each chapter grapples with the questions related to the idea that the revolution in South Africa was a substantive revolution, because of its insistence on the establishment of a democratic and constitutional state that recognized the thoroughgoing wrongs of the colonial and apartheid past.

What was supposed to be a short business trip to Equatorial Guinea turned into a journey to the depths of hell. Black Beach, located on Bioko island off the mainland of Equatorial Guinea, is one of the world's most feared prisons, notorious for its brutality and inhumane conditions. In 2013, South African businessman Daniel Janse van Rensburg set off to the West African country to finalise a legitimate airline contract with a local politician. Within days, Daniel was arrested by the local Rapid Intervention Force, had his passport confiscated, and was held prisoner without trial in the island's infamous 'Guantanamo'' cells, where he witnessed torture for the first time. He was released by the courts but promptly rearrested, and this time taken to Black Beach. What follows is his remarkable story of survival over more than a year, made possible by his unwavering faith and the humanity of a few fellow inmates. In a thrilling first-person narrative, Daniel relives his ordeal, detailing his arrest, his flight to the South African embassy while dodging armed men, his near escape and subsequent rearrest at the airport, his harrowing incarceration at Black Beach and the horrific conditions in the prison, and his ceaseless hope to return to South Africa and be reunited with his family. A story of courage in the face of overwhelming adversity, this book demonstrates both the strength of the human spirit and the toll injustice takes on ordinary people who fall foul of the powerful and corrupt. -- Publisher's description

• Preface Developing Law for the Anthropcene in the Global South
• Abbreviations
• 1 It's Time to Get Crazy Justifying Radical Judicial Responses to Intersecting Social, Environmental and Climate Injustices
• 1.1 Introduction
• 1.2 An Environmental Law Dispute
• 1.3 A Socio-ecological Systems Perspective for the Anthropocene
• 1.4 A Global South Context and Justification for Radical Judicial Responses for the Anthropocene: Patterns of Marginalisation, Disadvantage, and Vulnerability in South Africa and Conceptualising (In)Justice 1.4.1 Poverty and Inequality in South Africa
• 1.4.2 Social, Environmental, and Climate (In)Justice
• 1.5 Methodology and Structure of the Book 1.5.1 Progressive and Reformist Legal Scholarship
• 1.5.2 A Legal Theory Emerging from a Tapestry of Norms, Woven Together
• 1.5.3 Justifying a Legal Theory of Transformative Environmental Constitutionalism by Grappling with Problematic Trends in the Adjudication of Environmental Law Disputes
• 1.5.4 Transformative Environmental Constitutionalism in Theory and Practice
• 1.5.5 Conclusion: The Importance of a Legal Theory of Transformative Environmental Constitutionalism
• 2 Weaving Together a Tapestry of Norms Transformative Constitutionalism, Transformative Adjudication, and Environmental Constitutionalism
• 2.1 Introduction
• 2.2 Transformative Constitutionalism 2.2.1 Support for Transformative Constitutionalism Elsewhere in the World
• 2.2.2 Criticisms of Transformative Constitutionalism
• 2.2.3 Transformative Constitutionalism's Goals: A Critical Perspective
• 2.3 Transformative Adjudication 2.3.1 The Political Nature of Transformative Adjudication through Substantive Reasoning
• 2.3.2 The Need to Overcome Formalism
• 2.3.3 Transformative Adjudication and the Separation of Powers Doctrine
• 2.4 Environmental Constitutionalism in South Africa 2.4.1 Category 1: Laws Explicitly Aimed at the Protection of the Environment and/or Components
• 2.4.2 Category 2: Laws Requiring Transparent, Lawful, Participatory, Fair, and Reasonable Decision Making
• 2.4.3 Category 3: Substantive Rights Interrelated with and Mutually Reinforcing of Environmental Protection
• 2.5 Conclusion
• 3 Problematic Trends in the Adjudication of Environmental Law Disputes in South Africa
• 3.1 Introduction
• 3.2 Overlooking Social, Environmental, and Climate Injustices in Environmental Law Disputes (the "Overlooking Trend") 3.2.1 Adendorffs Boerderye
• 3.2.2 Kenton on Sea
• 3.3 Over-Proceduralising Environmental Law Disputes (the "Over-Proceduralisation Trend") 3.3.1 Normandien Farms
• 3.3.2 The Barberton Mines Judgments
• 3.4 Under-Development of the Environmental Right (the "Under-Utilisation Trend") 3.4.1 Under-Development by Virtue of Courts Paying Lip Service to the Environmental Right
• 3.4.1.1 Propshaft
• 3.4.1.2 iSimangaliso
• 3.4.2 Under-Development by Virtue of Courts Presuming that Substantive Provisions in Environmental Legislation Give Effect to the Environmental Right
• 3.5 Overlooking the Relationships among Environmental Rights and other Interrelated and Mutually Reinforcing Rights (the "Compartmentalisation Trend")
• 3.6 Conclusion
• 4 Developing Law for the Anthropocene Exploring the Content of a Legal Theory of Transformative Environmental Constitutionalism
• 4.1 Introduction
• 4.2 Justice-Oriented Framing of Disputes
• 4.3 Substantive, Rights-Based Adjudication 4.3.1 Substantive Engagement with Justice-Oriented Provisions in Environmental Legislation
• 4.3.2 Environmental Justice
• 4.3.3 Public Trusteeship
• 4.3.4 Developing the Normative Content of the Environmental Right
• 4.3.5 Ecological Sustainability
• 4.3.6 Inter- and Intra-generational Equity
• 4.3.7 Recognising the Mutually Reinforcing and Interrelated Nature of the Environmental Right and Other Substantive Rights
• 4.3.8 The rights to Life and Dignity
• 4.3.9 Socio-economic Rights
• 4.3.10 Cultural Rights
• 4.4 Conclusion
• 5 The Practical Significance of Transformative Environmental Constitutionalism Offering Hope for the Adjudication of Future Environmental Law Disputes
• 5.1 Introduction
• 5.2 Earthlife 5.2.1 The Framing of the Dispute in Earthlife
• 5.2.2 Purposive and Substantive Rights-Based Adjudication in Earthlife
• 5.3 veja 5.3.1 The Framing of the Dispute in veja
• 5.3.2 Purposive and Substantive Rights-Based Adjudication in veja
• 5.4 The Gongqose Judgments 5.4.1 Framing of the Dispute in the Gongqose Judgments
• 5.4.2 Purposive and Substantive Rights-Based Adjudication in the Gongqose Judgments
• 5.5 Conclusion
• 6 Conclusion
• 6.1 Transformative Environmental Constitutionalism as Work-in-Progress
• 6.2 Law for the Anthropocene: A Moving Target
• Bibliography
• Index .
• (source: Nielsen Book Data)

Given the Anthropocene's converging socio-ecological crises, particularly the dire issue of climate change, social movements are increasingly approaching the courts to advance intersecting struggles for social, environmental, and climate justice. Transformative constitutional regimes in South Africa and elsewhere that incorporate environmental and human rights protections offer potentially powerful legal norms to advance the struggles of these movements. Grappling with such norms and with problematic trends in adjudication, Prof. Melanie Jean Murcott develops a legal theory of Transformative Environmental Constitutionalism as a novel framework within which courts could adjudicate environmental law disputes, developing law for the Anthropocene's global struggles.
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• 1. Introduction
• 2. Taking reality (legally) seriously
• 3. Voting rights, politics, and trust
• 4. The role of the Court: standard conceptions
• 5. The role of the Court: constitution-building
• 6. LGBTI equality
• 7. Democracy
• 8. Socio-economic rights
• 9. Equality, eviction and engagement.
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This revisionary perspective on South Africa's celebrated Constitutional Court draws on historical and empirical sources alongside conventional legal analysis to show how support from the African National Congress (ANC) government and other political actors has underpinned the Court's landmark cases, which are often applauded too narrowly as merely judicial achievements. Standard accounts see the Court as overseer of a negotiated constitutional compromise and as the looked-to guardian of that constitution against the rising threat of the ANC. However, in reality South African successes have been built on broader and more admirable constitutional politics to a degree no previous account has described or acknowledged. The Court has responded to this context with a substantially consistent but widely misunderstood pattern of deference and intervention. Although a work in progress, this institutional self-understanding represents a powerful effort by an emerging court, as one constitutionally serious actor among others, to build a constitution.
(source: Nielsen Book Data)