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Rights after wrongs : local knowledge and human rights in Zimbabwe / Shannon Morreira.
LIBRA KTZ209.5 .M67 2016
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Morreira, Shannon, 1982- author.
- Series:
- Stanford studies in human rights
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Human rights--Anthropological aspects--Zimbabwe.
- Human rights.
- International law and human rights--Zimbabwe.
- International law and human rights.
- Zimbabweans--Civil rights--South Africa.
- Zimbabweans.
- Civil rights.
- Human rights--Anthropological aspects.
- South Africa.
- Zimbabwe.
- Physical Description:
- xii, 196 pages ; 22 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Stanford, California : Stanford University Press, 2016.
- Summary:
- The International legal framework of human rights presents itself as universal. But rights do not exist as a mere framework; they are enacted, practiced, and debated in local contexts. Rights After Wrongs explores this chasm between the ideals and the practice of human rights by investigating where the sweeping colonial logics of Western law meet the lived experiences, accumulated histories, and humanitarian debts present in post-colonial Zimbabwe. Shannon Morreira's ethnography explores the ways in which the global framework of human rights is locally interpreted, constituted, and contested in Zimbabwe and South Africa. Presenting the stories of those who lived through the violent struggles of the past decades, Rights After Wrongs uncovers the disconnect between the ways human rights appear on paper and the ways in which it is possible for people to use and understand them in everyday life. Book jacket.
- Contents:
- Introduction : the rise of rights talk in Zimbabwe
- "Panel-beating the law" : constitution-making in Zimbabwe
- Justice in a time of impunity : remaking social worlds after political violence
- Producing knowledge about human rights in Harare
- Personhood and rights among Zimbabwean migrants in South Africa
- Conclusion : the situationality of human rights.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780804798372
- 0804798370
- 9780804799089
- 0804799083
- OCLC:
- 921142444
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