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Fictions of justice, the International Criminal Court and the challenge of legal pluralism in Sub-Saharan Africa, Kamari Maxine Clarke

Label
Fictions of justice, the International Criminal Court and the challenge of legal pluralism in Sub-Saharan Africa, Kamari Maxine Clarke
Language
eng
Index
index present
Literary Form
non fiction
Main title
Fictions of justice
Medium
electronic resource
Nature of contents
dictionaries
Oclc number
505076531
Responsibility statement
Kamari Maxine Clarke
Series statement
Cambridge studies in law and societyCambridge Social Sciences eBooks
Sub title
the International Criminal Court and the challenge of legal pluralism in Sub-Saharan Africa
Summary
By taking up the challenge of documenting how human rights values are embedded in rule of law movements to produce a new language of international justice that competes with a range of other formations, this book explores how notions of justice are negotiated through everyday micropractices and grassroots contestations of those practices. These micropractices include speech acts that revere the protection of international rights, citation references to treaty documents, the brokering of human rights agendas, the rewriting of national constitutions, demonstrations of religiosity that make explicit the piety of religious subjects, and ritual practices of forgiveness that involve the invocation of ancestral religious cosmologies - all practices that detail the ways that justice is made real.--, Provided by publisher
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