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Social change --- Democracy --- Values. --- Public theology --- Social transformation --- Religious aspects --- Christianity. --- Lategan, Bernard C. --- Bible --- Hermeneutics. --- Criticism, interpretation, etc.

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"This book explores the ways in which social relations are profoundly changing modern society, arguing that, constituting a reality of their own, social relations will ultimately lead to a new form of society: an after-modern or relational society. Drawing on the thought of Simmel, it extends the idea that society consists essentially of social relations, in order to make sense of the operation of dichotomous forces in society and to examine the emergence of a 'third' in the morphogenetic processes. Through a realist and critical relational sociology, which allows for the fact that human beings are both internal and external to social relations, and therefore to society, the author shows how we are moving towards a new, trans-modern society - one that calls into question the guiding ideas of western modernity, such as the notion of linear progression, that science and technology are the decisive factors of human development, and that culture can entirely supplant nature. As such, it will appeal to sociologists, social theorists, economists, political scientists and social philosophers with interests in relational thought, critical realism and social transformation".

Social interaction. --- Postmodernism Social aspects. --- Human interaction --- Interaction, Social --- Symbolic interaction --- Exchange theory (Sociology) --- Psychology --- Social psychology --- after-modernity --- critical realism --- modernity --- relational thinking --- relational thought --- Simmel --- social relations --- social transformation --- trans-modern --- western modernity --- Postmodernism --- Globalization --- Social aspects.

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The Battle of Mamusa reflects the grievous event in the Western Transvaal border culture context that contributed profoundly to the dissolution of the last functioning Korana polity. The narrative presented in this work is exceptional for at least two reasons: Firstly, for the thoughtful manner in which the intriguing concept of metaphors is applied in this study of historical ethnography cum ethnohistory. Secondly, for the skilful way in which the author relates the battle of Mamusa to how present-day Korana and neo- Khoisan communities, in a new context, are relating to their future in a post-1994 constitutional dispensation. Prof. Henry C (Jatti) Bredekamp University of the Western Cape

African history --- Military history --- history --- social transformation --- social studies --- colonial Korana --- Khoesan --- Cape Colony --- Mamusa --- Batlhaping and Barolong --- historical ethnography --- ethnohistory --- neo-Khoisan communities --- war --- south africa --- Khoisan --- missionaries --- society --- culture --- sicuak sciences --- africa --- 1836-1909 --- South Africa --- Afrique du Sud --- South Africa. --- History --- Race relations. --- Histoire --- Relations raciales.

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This selection of the major works of constitutional theory during the Weimar period reflects the reactions of legal scholars to a state in permanent crisis, a society in which all bets were off. Yet the Weimar Republic's brief experiment in constitutionalism laid the groundwork for the postwar Federal Republic, and today its lessons can be of use to states throughout the world. Weimar legal theory is a key to understanding the experience of nations turning from traditional, religious, or command-and-control forms of legitimation to the rule of law. Only two of these authors, Hans Kelsen and Carl Schmitt, have been published to any extent in English, but they and the others whose writings are translated here played key roles in the political and constitutional struggles of the Weimar Republic. Critical introductions to all the theorists and commentaries on their works have been provided by experts from Austria, Canada, Germany, and the United States. In their general introduction, the editors place the Weimar debate in the context of the history and politics of the Weimar Republic and the struggle for constitutionalism in Germany. This critical scrutiny of the Weimar jurisprudence of crisis offers an invaluable overview of the perils and promise of constitutional development in states that lack an entrenched tradition of constitutionalism.

Public law. Constitutional law --- Legal theory and methods. Philosophy of law --- Germany --- Constitutional history --- Constitutional law --- State, The --- Philosophy --- History --- Politics and government --- Administration --- Commonwealth, The --- Sovereignty --- Political science --- Constitutional limitations --- Constitutionalism --- Constitutions --- Limitations, Constitutional --- Public law --- Administrative law --- Interpretation and construction --- constitution. --- constitutional amendment. --- constitutional. --- crisis. --- democracy. --- democratic republic. --- ethics. --- european history. --- formalism. --- german history. --- germany. --- law. --- legal issues. --- legal theory. --- philosophy. --- political. --- politics. --- social change. --- social justice. --- social studies. --- social theory. --- social transformation. --- sociology. --- weimar constitution. --- world history.

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L’autogestion est une forme d’organisation collective où chaque membre du groupe prend part au processus décisionnel qui s’exprime dans la recherche de consensus. Depuis ses débuts, la pensée libertaire propose, à travers ce type d’organisation, de quitter le paradigme capitalisme. Elle rejette non seulement la domination et l’exploitation de l’humain sur l’humain mais aussi l’emprise de l’humain sur son environnement qui conduit à sa destruction. Depuis trois ans, en Grèce, le Refugee Village for Freedom est un collectif autogestionnaire de réfugié.e.s qui pratique une agriculture en marge des circuits conventionnels. La souveraineté alimentaire pour le collectif est visée tout comme la solidarité, avec l’apport gratuit et régulier de produits sain et frais à plus d’un millier de réfugié.e.s vivant à Athènes. À travers une enquête sur le terrain et d’entretiens qualitatifs avec certains de ses membres, ce travail va analyser l’apprentissage du Refugee Village for Freedom dont le fondement libertaire offre un potentiel de transformation sociale rendu possible par l’autogestion. Self-organisation is a form of collective organisation where each member of the group participates in the decision-making process as a way of obtaining consensus. Since its inception, libertarian thought has proposed, through this type of organisation, to depart from the capitalism paradigm. It rejects not only the domination and exploitation of humans over humans but also the control of humans over their environment that leads to its destruction. For the past three years, in Greece, the Refugee Village for Freedom is a refugee collective based on the principles of self-organisation. In light of this, this collective has tended to practice a form of farming outside the conventional agriculture. Food sovereignty for the collective is targeted, along- side solidarity, with the free and regular supply of healthy and fresh products to more than a thousand refu- gees living in Athens. Through the use of field research and qualitative interviews with some of its members, this work will analyze the learnings observed from the Refugee Village for Freedom whose libertarian foun- dation offers a potential for social transformation, made possible by self-organisation.

autogestion --- étude de cas --- transformation sociale --- agroécologie --- libertaire --- réfugiés --- Grèce --- organisation horizontale --- sociologie --- qualitative --- paradigme social --- processus décisionnel --- démocratie radicale --- indépendance --- souveraineté alimentaire --- écologisme réformiste --- écologisme radical --- collectif --- autogestionnaire --- agriculture alternative --- solidarité --- anarchie --- autonomie --- égalitaire --- slef-organization --- case study --- social transformation --- agroecology --- libertarian --- anarchy --- refugees --- Greece --- horizontal organization --- sociology --- egalitarian --- qualitative --- social paradigma --- decision-making --- radical democracy --- independence --- food sovereignty --- mainstream ecology --- radical ecology --- collective --- self-orgenized --- agriculture --- alternative --- solidarity --- autonomy --- Sciences sociales & comportementales, psychologie > Sociologie & sciences sociales --- Sciences du vivant > Agriculture & agronomie