Om Ontmensliking Teen te Staan: Ou Testament Vroue Bied Weerstand Teen Armoede, Onreg en Geweld

1. Om Ontmensliking Teen te Staan: Ou Testament Vroue Bied Weerstand Teen Armoede, Onreg en Geweld Prof Juliana Claassens 29 Oktober 2014, Bybelnagte NG Gemeente Welgelegen Marc Chagall, 1960, Naomi and her Daughters-in-Law

2. Om mens te wees beteken inherent om daardie kragte wat ‘n mens se waardigheid aantas of skend teen te staan. “The dignity of being a human made in the image of God was manifested precisely in the bearing witness to the violation and in the protest against those violations, whether the assaults were physical, emotional or spiritual.” (Beverly Mitchell, Plantations and Death Camps: Religion, Ideology, and Human Dignity, 4)

3. Om Armoede Teen te Staan :Rut en Naomi Mark Chagall

4. Om Onreg Teen te Staan :Die Dogters van Zelophehad (Numeri 27) Bonnie Lee Roth

5. Om Geweld Teen te StaanRispa se Klaaglied (2 Samuel 21) Rispa dogter van Aja het toe rouklere gevat en dit vir haar op 'n rots oopgegooi. Van die begin van die oestyd af totdat die reëntyd aangebreek het, het sy bedags die roofvoëls en snags die roofdiere nie aan die lyke laat vreet nie. (2Sa 21:10 A83)

6. Judith Butler oor “Wat ‘n Mens ‘n Mens Maak” It is one thing to argue that first, on the level of discourse, certain lives are not considered lives at all, they cannot be humanized, that they fit no dominant frame for the human, and that their dehumanization occurs first, at this level, and that this level then gives rise to a physical violence that in some sense delivers the message of dehumanization that is already at work in the culture. If 200 000 Iraqi children were killed during the Gulf war, and its aftermath, do we have an image, a frame for any one of these lives, singly or collectively? (Butler, Precarious Life, 34.)

7. Judith Butler oor “Doodsberigte” “[Obituary] is a means by which life becomes, or fails to become, a publically grievable life, an icon for national self-recognition, the means by which a life becomes noteworthy.…The matter is not a simple one, for, if a life is not grievable, it is not quite a life and is not worth a note. It is already the unburied, if not the unburiable.” (Butler, Precarious Life, 34.)

8. Crying over Child: To the Child Killed by Nine Gun Shots They say you were a rioter,They said You’d sabotage the 20-million lives- built great palace.NeverthelessMum knows You were just a naïve childPulling Mum’s hand yesterdayUrged Mum to take you to the park. (cited in Lee, Lyrics of Lament, 36). Palestinian Women in grief after seeing the dead body of a relative after an Israeli missile strike in Jan. 2009

9. Judith Butler oor “Om ‘n Gedeelde Weerloosheid te Ontdek” “From the subsequent experience of loss and fragility, however, the possibility of making different kinds of ties emerges. Such mourning might (or could) effect a transformation in our sense of international ties that would crucially rearticulate the possibility of democratic political culture here and elsewhere.”(Butler, Precarious Life, 40)

10. Judith Butler oor “‘n Weg uit Geweld?” “But perhaps there is some way other way to live such that one becomes neither affectively dead nor mimetically violent, a way out of the circle of violence altogether. This possibility has to do with demanding a world in which bodily vulnerability is protected without therefore being eradicated and with insisting on the line that must be walked between the two.”(Butler, Precarious Life,42).