ISBN:
9780821446485
Language:
English
Pages:
1 Online-Ressource (332 Seiten)
Series Statement:
Cambridge Centre of African Studies series
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als Pursuing justice in Africa
DDC:
320.0110967
Keywords:
Justice
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Women Legal status, laws, etc
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Justice, Administration of
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Dispute resolution (Law)
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Justice
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Women Legal status, laws, etc
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Africa, Sub-Saharan
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Justice, Administration of Africa, Sub-Saharan
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Dispute resolution (Law) Africa, Sub-Saharan
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Gerechtigkeit
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Recht
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Ethik
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Soziale Gerechtigkeit
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Menschenrecht
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Transitional Justice
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Gruppe
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Rechtsstellung
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Geschlechterrolle
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Fallstudie
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Afrika
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Konferenzschrift 2015
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Afrika
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Soziale Gerechtigkeit
Abstract:
Pursuing Justice in Africa focuses on the many actors pursuing many visions of justice across the African continent—their aspirations, divergent practices, and articulations of international and vernacular idioms of justice. The essays selected by editors Jessica Johnson and George Hamandishe Karekwaivanane engage with topics at the cutting edge of contemporary scholarship across a wide range of disciplines. These include activism, land tenure, international legal institutions, and postconflict reconciliation. Building on recent work in sociolegal studies that foregrounds justice over and above concepts such as human rights and legal pluralism, the contributors grapple with alternative approaches to the concept of justice and its relationships with law, morality, and rights. While the chapters are grounded in local experiences, they also attend to the ways in which national and international actors and processes influence, for better or worse, local experiences and understandings of justice. The result is a timely and original addition to scholarship on a topic of major scholarly and pragmatic interest.
Note:
"This volume began life as a two-day conference held at the University of Cambridge's Centre for Research in the Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities (CRASSH) in 2015."
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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Introduction: Re-centering justice in African studies
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Part I: Morality, religion, and languages of justice ; Competing conceptions of justice in colonial Buganda
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Legal pluralism and the pursuit of a just life. Muslim views on law and justice in East Africa
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Part II: Gender justice ; Chilungamo and the question of LGBTQ+ rights in Malawi
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Justice intervention. Mobile courts in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo
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"Home people" and "people of human rights". Understanding responses to rape in northern Uganda
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Part III: Resources, conflict, and justice ; Out of the mouths of babes. Tracing child soldiers' notions of "justice," ca. 1940/2012
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Good and bad Muslims. Conflict, justice, and religion among Somalis at Dagahaley Refugee Camp in Kenya
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Afterword / Kamari Maxine Clarke.
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Social justice and moral space in hospital cancer care in Kenya
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Relational justice and transformation in postapartheid South Africa
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Conflicting conceptions of justice and the legal treatment of defilement cases in Malawi
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Land restitution (old and new), neotraditionalism, and the contested values of land justice in South Africa
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Transitional justice and ordinary justice in postconflict Acholiland
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Chilungamo and the question of LGBTQ+ rights in Malawi
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Justice intervention : Mobile courts in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo
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Legal pluralism and the pursuit of a just life : Muslim views on law and justice in East Africa
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"Home people" and "people of human rights" : Understanding responses to rape in northern Uganda
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Out of the mouths of babes : Tracing child soldiers' notions of "justice," ca. 1940/2012
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Good and bad Muslims : Conflict, justice, and religion among Somalis at Dagahaley Refugee Camp in Kenya
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Introduction : Re-centering justice in African studies
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Competing conceptions of justice in colonial Buganda
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