Policing and Human Rights: The Meaning of Violence and Justice in the Everyday Policing of Johannesburg |
The African Centre for Migration and Society (ACMS), the Wits School of Law and the Johannesburg Workshop for Theory and Criticism (JWTC) invite you to the following event:
Book Launch
Policing and Human Rights: The Meaning of Violence and Justice in the Everyday Policing of Johannesburg
by: Julia Hornberger
Date: Monday 24 October
Time: 6-8 PM
Location: Humanities Graduate Centre, Seminar Room 10, South West Engineering Building, East Campus, University of the Witwatersrand
Please RSVP: lenore.longwe@wits.ac.za (011 717 4033)
Discussion
Where are we with Human Rights and Policing?
- Judge Dennis Davis (High Court, Cape Town)
- Dr Darshan Vigneswaran (Max Planck Institute, Göttingen)
- Dr Julia Hornberger (ACMS /University of Zurich)
Where are we with human rights and policing?
Since 1994, human rights have been subject to several waves of celebration, critique and recuperation. It is time to take stock of where we are, and particularly in the context of renewed debate on the status of police violence in South African democracy. Are we witnessing a return to official violence against the people, warranting classical human rights interventions as we know them? Or are we dealing instead with a more insidious kind of authoritarian populism, where widespread fears and demands for decisive state action underpin reforms to the law, including the new legislation on lethal force and the re-militarisation of police ranks? If so, what do we do with a call for more popular human rights? These are some of the questions we pose for a public discussion to mark the launch of Julia Hornberger’s new book on Policing and Human Rights:The Meaning of Violence and Justice in the Everyday Policing of Johannesburg.
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