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Pursuing justice in Africa : competing imaginaries and contested practices
Title
Pursuing justice in Africa : competing imaginaries and contested practices / edited by Jessica Johnson and George Hamandishe Karekwaivanane.
ISBN
9780821423356
0821423355
9780821446485
Publication
Athens : Ohio University Press, [2018]
Physical Description
332 pages ; 24 cm.
Notes
"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."
Format
Books
Language
English
Added to Catalog
December 14, 2018
Series
Cambridge Centre of African Studies series
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
Introduction: Re-centering justice in African studies / Jessica Johnson and George Hamandishe Karekwaivanane
Part I: Morality, religion, and languages of justice
Competing conceptions of justice in colonial Buganda / Jonathon L. Earle
Legal pluralism and the pursuit of a just life. Muslim views on law and justice in East Africa / Felicitas Becker
Social justice and moral space in hospital cancer care in Kenya / Benson A. Mulemi
Relational justice and transformation in postapartheid South Africa / Duncan Scott
Part II: Gender justice
Chilungamo and the question of LGBTQ+ rights in Malawi / Alan Msosa
Justice intervention. Mobile courts in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo / Patrick Hoenig
Conflicting conceptions of justice and the legal treatment of defilement cases in Malawi / Ngeyi Ruth Kanyongolo and Bernadette Malunga
"Home people" and "people of human rights". Understanding responses to rape in northern Uganda / Holly Porter
Part III: Resources, conflict, and justice
Out of the mouths of babes. Tracing child soldiers' notions of "justice," ca. 1940/2012 / Stacey Hynd
Good and bad Muslims. Conflict, justice, and religion among Somalis at Dagahaley Refugee Camp in Kenya / Fred Nyongesa Ikanda
Land restitution (old and new), neotraditionalism, and the contested values of land justice in South Africa / Olaf Zenker
Transitional justice and ordinary justice in postconflict Acholiland / Anna MacDonald
Afterword / Kamari Maxine Clarke.
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