Normative spaces and legal dynamics in Africa / edited by Katrin Seidel and Hatem Elliesie.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Seidel, Katrin, 1976- editor.

Elliesie, Hatem, editor.

Series:

Law and anthropology series.

Law and Anthropology

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Law--Africa, Sub-Saharan--Philosophy.

Law.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (317 pages) : illustrations.

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

London ; New York, New York : Routledge, [2020]

Summary:

"Selected case studies from thirteen African countries deliver new empirical data and grounded insights from, and into, particular normative spaces. The individual chapters explore the interrelationships between various normative orders, diverse actors, and their influences. The encounters between different normative understandings and actors open up space and multiple forums for negotiating values. The authors analyse how different doctrines, institutions, and practices are constructed, contested, negotiated, and adapted in translation processes and thereby continuously reshape Africa's multidimensional normative spaces"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Prologue

Normative Spaces in Africa: Constructing, Contesting, Renegotiating, and Adapting Legal Dynamics / Katrin Seidel and Hatem Elliesie

Part II. Contesting Normative Spaces

'Forensic Fetishism' and Human Rights after Violent Conflict: Uncovering Somaliland's Troubled Past / Markus Virgil Höhne & Shakira Bedoya Sánchez

Transitional Justice Atmospheres: The Role of Space and Affect in the International Criminal Court's Outreach Efforts in Northern Uganda / Jonas Bens

The Libyan Constitution-Making Process: A Tool for State-Building in a Divided Socio-Normative Space? / Felix-Anselm van Lier

Part II. Contesting Normative Space

Challenges, Limits and Prospects of 'Judicial Governance' in Nigeria's Political Translation (1999-2014) / Hakeem O Yusuf

Contesting Normative Spaces: The Status of African Traditional Courts under International Human Rights Law / Prosper Simbarashe Maguchu

Protecting Groups in Africa: Between International Law, National Law, and Local Customary Law / Julia Kriesel

Part III. Re-negotiating Normative Spaces

Mind the Gaps: Renegotiating South African Legal Pluralism within the Post-apartheid State / Olaf Zenker

Judicial Governance in Ghana: Negotiating Jurisdictional Authority in the Post-colonial State / Tillmann Schneider

Living Customary Law in South Africa: Negotiating Spaces for Women in Traditional Communities / Lisa Heemann

Part IV. Adapting Normative Spaces

The Legal Laboratory in Rwanda: Experimentalization and Adaptation / Stefanie Bognitz

Negotiated Outcomes in Low-Resourced Courts: Tanzania's Land Courts System / Kelly Askew

Land Grabbing in Ethiopia: Questioning FDI and Big Government Projects / Daniel Behailu Gebreamanuel

Whither Courts? Forest Protection in Kenya: Case of Mau Forest / Hannah W Wanderi

Epilogue

Beyond a Linear Model of Law in Space and Time / Anne Griffiths.

Notes:

Includes index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-00-301573-5

1-003-01573-5

1-000-06096-9

9781003015734

OCLC:

1131865107