Pursuing justice in Africa : : competing imaginaries and contested practices / / edited by Jessica Johnson and George Hamandishe Karekwaivanane.

• Superior document: Cambridge Centre of African Studies series
• TeilnehmendeR: Johnson, Jessica, 1984-; Karekwaivanane, George Hamandishe, 1980-
• Place / Publishing House: Athens, Ohio : : Ohio University Press,, 2018.
• Year of Publication: 2018
• Language: English
• Series: Cambridge Centre of African Studies series.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (332 pages).
• Notes: "This volume began life as a two-day conference held at the University of Cambridge's Centre for Research in the Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities (CRASSH) in 2015."

Pursuing Justice in Africa focuses on the many actors pursuing many visions of justice across the African continent-their aspirations, divergent practices, and articulations of international and vernacular idioms of justice. The essays selected by editors Jessica Johnson and George Hamandishe Karekwaivanane engage with topics at the cutting edge of contemporary scholarship across a wide range of disciplines. These include activism, land tenure, international legal institutions, and postconflict reconciliation. Building on recent work in sociolegal studies that foregrounds justice over and above concepts such as human rights and legal pluralism, the contributors grapple with alternative approaches to the concept of justice and its relationships with law, morality, and rights. While the chapters are grounded in local experiences, they also attend to the ways in which national and international actors and processes influence, for better or worse, local experiences and understandings of justice. The result is a timely and original addition to scholarship on a topic of major scholarly and pragmatic interest. Contributors: Felicitas Becker, Jonathon L. Earle, Patrick Hoenig, Stacey Hynd, Fred Nyongesa Ikanda, Ngeyi Ruth Kanyongolo, Anna Macdonald, Bernadette Malunga, Alan Msosa, Benson A. Mulemi, Holly Porter, Duncan Scott, Olaf Zenker.

Table of Contents

Introduction: Re-centering justice in African studies / Jessica Johnson and George Hamandishe Karekwaivanane -- Part I: Morality, religion, and languages of justice -- Competing conceptions of justice in colonial Buganda / Jonathon L. Earle -- Legal pluralism and the pursuit of a just life. Muslim views on law and justice in East Africa / Felicitas Becker -- Social justice and moral space in hospital cancer care in Kenya / Benson A. Mulemi -- Relational justice and transformation in postapartheid South Africa / Duncan Scott -- Part II: Gender justice -- Chilungamo and the question of LGBTQ+ rights in Malawi / Alan Msosa -- Justice intervention. Mobile courts in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo / Patrick Hoenig -- Conflicting conceptions of justice and the legal treatment of defilement cases in Malawi / Ngeyi Ruth Kanyongolo and Bernadette Malunga -- "Home people" and "people of human rights". Understanding responses to rape in northern Uganda / Holly Porter -- Part III: Resources, conflict, and justice -- Out of the mouths of babes. Tracing child soldiers' notions of "justice," ca. 1940/2012 / Stacey Hynd -- Good and bad Muslims. Conflict, justice, and religion among Somalis at Dagahaley Refugee Camp in Kenya / Fred Nyongesa Ikanda -- Land restitution (old and new), neotraditionalism, and the contested values of land justice in South Africa / Olaf Zenker -- Transitional justice and ordinary justice in postconflict Acholiland / Anna MacDonald -- Afterword / Kamari Maxine Clarke.