Pursuing justice in Africa : competing imaginaries and contested practices / edited by Jessica Johnson and George Hamandishe Karekwaivanane.
2018
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Title
Pursuing justice in Africa : competing imaginaries and contested practices / edited by Jessica Johnson and George Hamandishe Karekwaivanane.
Imprint
Athens : Ohio University Press, [2018]
Description
332 pages : illustration ; 24 cm.
Series
Cambridge Centre of African Studies series.
Formatted Contents Note
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.
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.
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, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Call Number
KQC457 .P87 2018
Language
English
ISBN
9780821423356 hardcover
0821423355 hardcover
9780821446485 electronic book
0821446487
9780821446485
0821423355 hardcover
9780821446485 electronic book
0821446487
9780821446485
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