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1 online resource |
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Cambridge Centre of African Studies series |
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Cambridge Centre of African Studies series.
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| 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 |
| Summary |
Pursuing Justice in Africa focuses on visions of justice across the African continent, featuring essays that engage with topics at the cutting edge of contemporary scholarship across a wide range of disciplines including activism, land tenure, international legal institutions, and post-conflict reconciliation |
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Justice.
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Women -- Legal status, laws, etc. -- Africa, Sub-Saharan
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Justice, Administration of -- Africa, Sub-Saharan
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Dispute resolution (Law) -- Africa, Sub-Saharan
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Sexual minorities -- Legal status, laws, etc. -- Africa, Sub-Saharan
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Political Science / Human Rights.
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Social Science / Ethnic Studies / African Studies.
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Sexual minorities -- Legal status, laws, etc.
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Dispute resolution (Law)
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Justice
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Justice, Administration of
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Women -- Legal status, laws, etc.
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Sub-Saharan Africa
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Johnson, Jessica, 1984- editor.
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Karekwaivanane, George Hamandishe, 1980- editor.
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| ISBN |
9780821446485 |
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0821446487 |
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