RT Book
T1 Pursuing justice in Africa: competing imaginaries and contested practices
T2 Cambridge Centre of African Studies series
A2 Johnson, Jessica 1984-
A2 Karekwaivanane, George Hamandishe 1980-
LA English
PP Athens, OH
PB Ohio University Press
YR 2018
UL https://ixtheo.de/Record/1027599923
AB 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.
NO "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."
NO Includes bibliographical references and index
CN JC578
SN 9780821423356
K1 Justice
K1 Women : Legal status, laws, etc : Africa, Sub-Saharan
K1 Justice, Administration of : Africa, Sub-Saharan
K1 Dispute resolution (Law) : Africa, Sub-Saharan
K1 Gerechtigkeit
K1 Recht
K1 Ethik
K1 Soziale Gerechtigkeit
K1 Menschenrecht
K1 Transitional Justice
K1 Gruppe
K1 Rechtsstellung
K1 Geschlechterrolle
K1 Fallstudie
K1 Afrika