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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.
- Publication
- Athens : Ohio University Press, [2018]
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- Additional Authors
- Description
- 332 pages : illustration; 24 cm.
- Series Statement
- Cambridge Centre of African Studies series
- Uniform Title
- Cambridge Centre of African Studies series.
- Subjects
- 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."
- Bibliography (note)
- 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.
- Call Number
- Sc E 19-1088
- ISBN
- 9780821423356
- 0821423355
- 0821446487
- 9780821446485
- LCCN
- 2018033503
- 40028655409
- OCLC
- 1031341932
- Title
- Pursuing justice in Africa : competing imaginaries and contested practices / edited by Jessica Johnson and George Hamandishe Karekwaivanane.
- Publisher
- Athens : Ohio University Press, [2018]
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Series
- Cambridge Centre of African Studies seriesCambridge Centre of African Studies series.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Added Author
- Johnson, Jessica, 1984- editor.Karekwaivanane, George Hamandishe, 1980- editor.
- Other Standard Identifier
- 40028655409
- Research Call Number
- Sc E 19-1088