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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Clarke, Kamari Maxine, 1966-

Series:

Cambridge studies in law and society.

Cambridge studies in law and society

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Legal polycentricity--Africa, Sub-Saharan.

Legal polycentricity.

International and municipal law--Africa, Sub-Saharan.

International and municipal law.

Religion and law--Africa, Sub-Saharan.

Religion and law.

Criminal law--Africa, Sub-Saharan.

Criminal law.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (352 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2009.

Summary:

This book explores how notions of justice are negotiated through everyday micropractices and grassroots contestations of those practices.

Contents:

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

"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.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 283-306) and index.

ISBN:

1-107-20116-0

0-511-64675-5

9786612391163

1-282-39116-X

0-511-65083-3

0-511-53935-5

0-511-53852-9

0-511-54019-1

OCLC:

609840580