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Louise du Toit

South Africa
Department of Philosophy
Stellenbosch University
Fellow, Visiting scholar:
  • 2017 Second Semester
  • 2020 Second Semester
  • 2021 First Semester

Involved in these STIAS projects

White Women Engaging Black Lives Matter: Problematizing Solidarity in a Time of Identity Politics

The brutal police killing of George Floyd in America on 25 May 2020 has led to global mass protest action through the Black Lives Matter (BLM) movement against police brutality and other institutionalized...
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Gandhi’s Satyagraha: Exploring Non-Violent Alternatives for Effective Political Resistance and Transformation

Challenges confronting our contemporary world like terrorism, populism, and religious pluralism recommend revisiting Gandhi’s concept of satyagraha. Both this concept as well as his ecumenical opening...
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Boundaries and legal authority in a global context

This is a team project within the Crossing Borders theme. Coordinators: Hans Lindahl (Tilburg) and Louise Du Toit (Stellenbosch) Description: There is widespread agreement that the enormous growth of cross-border...
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Self, Autonomy, Authority and Law: The Challenge of ‘Leaky Bodies’

The unity, integrity, health and prospects of collectives such as states, nations and societies are often imagined in terms of the individual human body. Already for Plato, the just person with an orderly...
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Fellows' seminars

Reflecting on Gandhi’s ideas on non-violence and what these can offer the world today – Fellows’ seminar by Wolfgang Palaver, Louise du Toit, Ephraim Meir and Ed Noort

17 June 2021
Fellows' seminars

Gandhi’s Satyagraha: Exploring non-violent alternatives for effective political resistance and transformation – Fellows’ seminar by Wolfgang Palaver, Louise du Toit, Ephraim Meir and Ed Noort

28 January 2021
Fellows' seminars

What’s a White woman to do? White women engaging Black Lives Matter: Problematising solidarity in a time of identity politics – Fellows’ seminar by Amanda Gouws, Azille Coetzee and Louise du Toit

23 September 2020
 

Related publications

Journal Article

Gandhi and the Gender of Nonviolent Resistance

Du Toit, Louise. 2022. Gandhi and the Gender of Nonviolent Resistance. Religions, 13(467), 1–18. https://doi.org/10.3390/rel13050467

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Book review

Eithne Dowds: Feminist Engagement with International Criminal Law: Norm Transfer, Complementarity, Rape and Consent

Du Toit, Louise. 2021. Eithne Dowds: Feminist Engagement with International Criminal Law: Norm Transfer, Complementarity, Rape and Consent. Feminist Legal Studies. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10691-021-09459-1

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Journal Article

When Bodies Speak Differently: Putting Judith Butler in Conversation with Mahatma Gandhi on Nonviolent Resistance

Du Toit, Louise and Jana Vosloo. 2021. When Bodies Speak Differently: Putting Judith Butler in Conversation with Mahatma Gandhi on Nonviolent Resistance. Religions, 12(8), 627. https://doi.org/10.3390/rel12080627

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Journal Article

“Die pot kook oral”: NP van Wyk Louw, Johannes Degenaar en Afrikaanse dekolonisering

Du Toit, Louise. 2020. “Die pot kook oral”: NP van Wyk Louw, Johannes Degenaar en Afrikaanse dekolonisering. Tydskrif Vir Geesteswetenskappe, 60(2). https://doi.org/10.17159/2224-7912/2020/v60n2a6

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Related events

19 September 2019

Symposium on Constitutionalism and Democracy Crossing Legal Boundaries: Perspectives from Global South and Peripheral Modernity

  • STIAS Workshop

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