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Fictions of justice, the International criminal court and the challenges of legal pluralism in sub-Saharan Africa, Kamari Maxine Clarke

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Includes bibliographical references and index

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Fictions of justice

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Kamari Maxine Clarke

Cambridge studies in law and society

the International criminal court and the challenges of legal pluralism in sub-Saharan Africa

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 <U+0127> all practices that detail the ways that justice, as a social fiction, is made real within particular relations of power.--, Provided by Publisher

Part I: The production of liberalist truth regimes. Constructing fictions : moral economies in the tribunalization of violence. Crafting the victim, crafting the perpetrator : new spaces of power, new specters of justice. Multiple spaces of justice : Uganda, the International Criminal Court and the politics of inequality. Part II: The religious politics of incommensurability. "Religious" and "secular" micropractices : the roots of secular law, the political content of radical Islamic beliefs. "The hand will go to hell" : Islamic law and the crafting of the spiritual self. Islamic sharia at the crossroads : human rights challenges and the strategic translation of vernacular imaginaries