Introduction

Danielle Celermajer, Millicent Churcher, Moira Gatens and Anna Hush

1. Racial Violence, Emotional Friction, and Epistemic Activism

Jose Medina

2. South Africa’s Blue Dress: (Re)imagining human rights through art

Eliza Garnsey

3. The ‘Affairs’ of Political Memory: Hermeneutical Dissidence from National Myth-Making

Mihaela Mihai

4. Character is a Sacred Bond: Reflections on Sovereignty, Grace, and Resistance

Richard K. Sherwin

5. The Tick-tick-ticking Time Bomb and Erosion of Human rights Institutions

Danielle Celermajer

6. Toward a Democratic Groove: Cultivating Affective Dynamics in Institutional Transformation

Romand Coles and Lia Haro

7. Listening to Claims of Structural Injustice

Emily Beausoleil

8. The Imaginary Institution of the University: Sexual Politics in the Neoliberal Academy

Anna Hush

9. Reframing Honor in Heterosexual Imaginaries

Millicent Churcher and Moira Gatens