Research Catalog

Details

Additional authors

1. Johnson, Jessica, 1984-
2. Karekwaivanane, George Hamandishe, 1980-

Description

1. 332 pages : illustration; 24 cm.

Series statement

1. Cambridge Centre of African Studies series

Uniform title

1. Cambridge Centre of African Studies series.

Subject

1. Justice
2. Women > Legal status, laws, etc. > Africa, Sub-Saharan
3. Justice, Administration of > Africa, Sub-Saharan
4. Dispute resolution (Law) > Africa, Sub-Saharan
5. Dispute resolution (Law)
6. Justice, Administration of
7. Women > Legal status, laws, etc
8. Sub-Saharan Africa

Contents

1. 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

1. Sc E 19-1088

Note

1. "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)

1. Includes bibliographical references and index.

Title

1. Pursuing justice in Africa : competing imaginaries and contested practices / edited by Jessica Johnson and George Hamandishe Karekwaivanane.

Publisher

1. Athens : Ohio University Press, [2018]

Type of content

1. text

Type of medium

1. unmediated

Type of carrier

1. volume

Series

1. Cambridge Centre of African Studies series
2. Cambridge Centre of African Studies series.

Bibliography

1. Includes bibliographical references and index.

Added author

1. Johnson, Jessica, 1984- editor.
2. Karekwaivanane, George Hamandishe, 1980- editor.

LCCN

1. 2018033503

Other standard identifier

1. 40028655409

ISBN

1. 9780821423356 hardcover
2. 0821423355 hardcover
3. 0821446487
4. 9780821446485

Research call number

1. Sc E 19-1088