Sea Peoples from the Aegean: Identity, Sociopolitical Context, and Antecedents

This chapter analyzes the Caribbean Court of Justice (CCJ), the creation of which was regarded as the culmination of the Caribbean’s long and protracted process toward independence from its former colonizers. Formally, the CCJ was instantaneously empowered to hear cases involving Caribbean Community law (Community law). The CCJ was also empowered to replace the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council (JCPC) in London—a last court of appeal for civil and criminal cases from the Caribbean and the most visible remnant of the British Empire’s former rule. The CCJ’s unique double jurisdiction—original over Community law and appellate over other civil and criminal matters—underscores the complex sociopolitical context and transformation of which it is a part. Ultimately, the CCJ’s growing authority has increasingly made the Court the institutional intersection for the convergence of these two different paths toward establishing the Caribbean as a legally integrated regional unity.

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The SADC Tribunal

10.1093/oso/9780198795582.003.0006 ◽

2018 ◽

Cited By ~ 3

Author(s):

E. Tendayi Achiume

Keyword(s):

Human Rights ◽

Significant Role ◽

Economic History ◽

Southern African Development Community ◽

The Other ◽

Legal Decision ◽

African Development ◽

Sociopolitical Context ◽

Judicial Lawmaking

This chapter uses the trajectory of the Southern African Development Community (“SADC”) Tribunal to chart sociopolitical constraints on international judicial lawmaking. It studies the SADC Tribunal backlash case, which paved the way for a curtailment of the Tribunal’s authority, stripping the Tribunal of both private access and its jurisdiction over human rights. Showing how jurisprudential engagement with sociopolitical context plays a significant role in explaining the Tribunal's loss of authority, the chapter introduces the concept of sociopolitical dissonance. Sociopolitical dissonance is a state that results when a legal decision contradicts or undermines deeply held norms that a given society or community forms on the basis of its social, political, and economic history. Sociopolitical resonance, on the other hand, describes the quality of affirming or according with a given society's norms as informed by its sociopolitical history.

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Opera and the South African Political

The Oxford Handbook of Sound and Imagination, Volume 1 ◽

10.1093/oxfordhb/9780190460167.013.14 ◽

2019 ◽

pp. 289-311

Author(s):

Christopher Ballantine

Keyword(s):

South Africa ◽

South African ◽

Singing Voice ◽

The South ◽

Sociopolitical Context ◽

Creating Meaning ◽

Empirical Means

Christopher Ballantine’s focus is on timbre, in particular the timbre of the singing voice, and how this combines with the imagination to create meaning. His investigation is largely philosophical; but the growth in popularity of opera in post-apartheid South Africa provides empirical means for Ballantine to indicate this powerful but analytically neglected way of creating meaning in the performance of music. His case study shows how timbre can produce musical experiences that have a particular, and often surprising, resonance. Through interviews with leading figures in South African opera, Ballantine demonstrates that timbre is a vital wellspring of imagined meaning; it should especially be seen thus if we seek to understand the singing voice in a sociopolitical context such as that of South Africa during and after apartheid.

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Cyprus, the Sea Peoples and the Eastern Mediterranean: Regional Perspectives of Continuity and Change (= Scripta Mediterranea 27–28 [2006–2007]), Toronto: Canadian Institute for Mediterranean Studies. Timothy P. Harrison.

Bulletin of the American Schools of Oriental Research ◽

10.1086/basor25741834 ◽

2010 ◽

Vol 359 ◽

pp. 85-87

Author(s):

Itzhaq Shai

Keyword(s):

Eastern Mediterranean ◽

Continuity And Change ◽

Mediterranean Studies ◽

Canadian Institute ◽

Sea Peoples

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A POST-LIBERAL ORDER? HANS ZEHRER AND CONSERVATIVE CONSENSUS BUILDING IN 1950S WEST GERMANY

Modern Intellectual History ◽

10.1017/s147924431200025x ◽

2012 ◽

Vol 9 (3) ◽

pp. 681-698 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

MARCUS M. PAYK

Keyword(s):

Federal Republic ◽

Weimar Republic ◽

Political System ◽

West Germany ◽

New Order ◽

Consensus Building ◽

Right Wing ◽

Federal Republic Of Germany ◽

Specific Mode ◽

Sociopolitical Context

While it is well known that German conservative intellectuals were skeptical or indifferent to the Federal Republic of Germany established in 1949 and to its democratic founding principles, this essay shifts attention to a specific mode of right-wing acceptance of the new order. Focusing on Hans Zehrer, a renowned journalist and notorious opponent of democracy in the Weimar Republic, I will demonstrate how right-wing intellectuals interpreted West Germany's political system as a post-liberal order after the “end of politics”. But this vision of transcending societal and intellectual conflicts in a meta-politics was neither entirely new nor simply raked up from the late 1920s but reshaped to fit the postwar sociopolitical context. The essay illuminates several intellectual connections between Weimar-era neoconservatism and the specific conservative consensus formed after 1949, but it also explores personnel continuities within a network of right-wing journalists as well as continuities in the field of journalistic style.

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