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Stuit synthesizes the findings of the individual chapters of the book in a description of a sign posted on a fence by the Ubuntu Security company in Pretoria. From this discussion, ubuntu emerges as a balancing act between openness towards others and personal security that may require strategic negotiations of differing, but converging interests rather than an uncritical reliance on the ethical importance of ubuntu as a given and shared humanity. By making the unavoidable influence of power relations in everyday uses of ubuntu visible, the book seeks to emphasize the importance of analysing how ubuntu is formulated and culturally expressed in fulfilling its full ethical potential.
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Stuit, H. (2016). Afterword: Ubuntu Security. In: Ubuntu Strategies. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-58009-2_6
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