Pursuing justice in Africa: competing imaginaries and contested practices
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 Karekw...
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| Type de support: | Imprimé Livre |
| Langue: | Anglais |
| Service de livraison Subito: | Commander maintenant. |
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Athens, OH
Ohio University Press
[2018]
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| Dans: | Année: 2018 |
| Volumes / Articles: | Montrer les volumes/articles. |
| Collection/Revue: | Cambridge Centre of African Studies series
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| Sujets / Chaînes de mots-clés standardisés: | B
Afrique
/ Justice sociale
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| Sujets non-standardisés: | B
Justice
B Women Legal status, laws, etc Africa, Sub-Saharan B Étude de cas B Groupe B Rôle de genre B Dispute resolution (Law) Africa, Sub-Saharan B Justice, Administration of Africa, Sub-Saharan B Statut juridique B Dispute resolution (Law) (Africa, Sub-Saharan) B Justice sociale B Justice, Administration of (Africa, Sub-Saharan) B Justice transitionnelle B Éthique B Droit de l’homme B Women Legal status, laws, etc (Africa, Sub-Saharan) B Afrique B Droit |
| Édition parallèle: | Électronique
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| Résumé: | 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. |
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| Description: | "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." Includes bibliographical references and index |
| ISBN: | 0821423355 |