Facts Matter: A Study into the Casuistry of Substantive International Criminal Law

Sliedregt, E. van [Promotor]Rozemond, N. [Copromotor]Stevens, L. [Copromotor

Public Commemoration and Ethnocultural Assertion: Winnipeg Celebrates the Diamond Jubilee of Confederation

The Canada-wide celebration of the Diamond Jubilee of Confederation was intended to promote the idea of a “new nationality” based on the linguistic and cultural dualism associated with Canada’s two “founding races.” The widespread participation of New Canadians in the celebrations was expected to accelerate their assimilation into the “melting pot” of the new nationality, which did not recognize the legitimacy of dual identities and loyalties. Winnipeg’s diverse and marginalized ethnic communities challenged both the official meanings of the Diamond Jubilee and the hegemonic Anglo-conformity of the city’s civic culture. They transformed the celebrations into a vehicle for representing their ethnocultural identities in the public sphere and asserting an alternative, pluralistic version of Canadian nationality. Winnipeg’s Jubilee celebrations became a milestone in an ongoing “dialectic of resistance and accommodation” that allowed immigrant groups to negotiate the terms of their integration into Canadian society, and that continues to structure the relationship between minority and mainstream cultures in the twenty-first century.La célébration pancanadienne du Jubilé de diamant de la Confédération était sensée promouvoir l’idée d’une nationalité « nouvelle » fondée sur la dualité linguistique et culturelle associée aux deux « peuples fondateurs » du Canada. On s’attendait à ce que la participation à grande échelle de néo-Canadiens accélère leur assimilation au creuset (« melting pot ») de la nouvelle nationalité, qui ne reconnait pas la légitimité d’une double identité et d’appartenances partagées. Les diverses communautés ethniques marginalisées de Winnipeg ont contesté tant la signification officielle du Jubilé de diamant que l’anglo-conformité hégémonique de la culture civique municipale. Elles ont transformé la fête en un véhicule pour représenter leurs identités ethnoculturelles dans la sphère publique et affirmer une version alternative pluraliste de la nationalité canadienne. Les célébrations du Jubilé de Winnipeg sont devenues un jalon dans un processus continu de « dialectique de la résistance et de l’accommodement » qui a permis à des groupes d’immigrants de négocier les conditions de leur intégration dans la société canadienne et qui continue de structurer la relation entre cultures minoritaires et dominantes au XXIe siècle

Management of congenital heart disease in the peripartum period: An illustrative case series

More women with complex congenital heart disease (CHD) reach adulthood resulting in a cohort of patients who are at high risk for adverse events during pregnancy. The haemodynamic changes usual to pregnancy may be poorly tolerated in patients with poor systemic ventricular function, cyanosis, left-sided obstructive lesions and pulmonary hypertension. Complex CHD patients are best managed by a multi-disciplinary team at a high-risk centre. Pre-conception counselling aims at risk stratifying by means of a clinical evaluation, electrocardiogram and echocardiography. Echocardiography plays a vital role in delineating the initial lesions and residual lesions with its haemodynamic complications. The modified WHO (mWHO) classification provides a helpful tool to stratify anatomical and physiological lesions by maternal and foetal event rates and is recommended by the European Society of Cardiology (ESC). Patients with cyanosis, severe aortopathy and severe pulmonary hypertension fall into Class IV and termination of pregnancy is advised. Patients may however choose to continue their pregnancy. We present 3 such cases of complex CHD (Fontan circulation, severe aortopathy and severe pulmonary hypertension) and illustrate some pertinent management principles in the peripartum period

The assessment of the utility and impact of sexual assault evidence collection kits (SAECKS) as DNA evidence in suspected cases of rape

The results from this study show the value of good basic medical practices in documentation of injuries, rather than more costly DNA evidence, in assisting courts in rape cases. However, the researchers do argue that in South Africa, as a middle-income country with a high percentage of non-intimate partner rapes, there would be an advantage in improving the system to collect and analyse DNA evidence rather than abandoning it completely. These results taken together suggest that DNA evidence can assist in signifying that sexual act has transpired however it is more likely that convictions will occur if evidence of physical injury is available, as DNA evidence cannot reveal if consent was obtained or not. As stated above South Africa has one of the highest rates of rape worldwide

Such painful knowledge: hope and the (un)making of futures in Cape Town

Recent writing in the anthropology of affect and cognate fields has positioned hope as a useful category with which to examine socio-political life and formulate a political and theoretical response adequate to its form. This dissertation extends this endeavour by exploring the ‘hopeful projects' mothers and families undertake in order to secure their children's futures in contemporary Cape Town. Based on ethnographic research conducted with Black mothers between March and October 2018, I argue that the supposedly private maternal hopes my interlocutors hold are in fact indexical of the ways in which social inequality functions and becomes manifest in everyday life and care. Situated at the interface of embodied experience and political histories, their hopes are indicative of how liberal logics of selfextension, self-mastery, and self-maximisation are inhabited to produce alternative futures. At the same time, however, such hopes are continually undone by contexts of intractable structural violence and deprivation, reinvested into normative notions of kinship, domesticity, sexuality, and the body, or marshalled to perform reparative work that should properly fall under the purview of the state. In detailing the ways in which my interlocutors attempt to craft more capacious, more just, and more materially abundant futures for their children, I illustrate the affective entailments of life-building in post-Apartheid South Afric