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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其他作者: Johnson, Jessica 1984- (Editor) ; Karekwaivanane, George Hamandishe 1980- (Editor)
格式: Print 圖書
語言:English
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出版: Athens, OH Ohio University Press [2018]
In:Year: 2018
Volumes / Articles:Show volumes/articles.
叢編:Cambridge Centre of African Studies series
Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains:B Afrika / 社會公義
Further subjects:B Justice
B Women Legal status, laws, etc Africa, Sub-Saharan
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B 性別角色
B Dispute resolution (Law) Africa, Sub-Saharan
B 倫理學
B Justice, Administration of Africa, Sub-Saharan
B 社會公義
B 正義
B Dispute resolution (Law) (Africa, Sub-Saharan)
B Justice, Administration of (Africa, Sub-Saharan)
B Afrika
B 轉型正義
B 案例分析
B Women Legal status, laws, etc (Africa, Sub-Saharan)
B 人權
B 法律地位
B 法律
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總結: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.
Item 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