Worlds of human rights : the ambiguities of rights claiming in Africa / / edited by Bill Derman, Anne Hellum, and Kristin Bergtora Sandvik.
This book engages with contemporary African human rights struggles including land, property, gender equality and legal identity. Through ethnographic field studies it situates claims-making by groups and individuals that have been subject to injustices and abuses, often due to different forms of dis...
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Superior document: | Afrika-Studiecentrum Series ; Volume 26 |
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Year of Publication: | 2013 |
Language: | English |
Series: | Afrika-Studiecentrum series ;
Volume 26. |
Physical Description: | 1 online resource (352 p.) |
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Other title: | Preliminary Material / Ethnographic and Historical Perspectives on Rights Claiming on the African Continent / Introduction / Land Rights, Human Rights and Development: Contestations in Land Restitution, Limpopo Province, South Africa / ‘Property’ and ‘Rights’ in a South African Land Claim Case / ‘We agreed to move, but we did not do so freely’. Resettlement from the Limpopo National Park, Mozambique / Between Common Community Interest and Gender Difference: Women in South Africa's Land Restitution Process / Multiple Threats, Manifold Strategies: Women, the State and Secure Tenure at the Interface of Human Rights and Local Practices in Dar es Salaam / Coercive Harmony?: Realizing Women’s Rights through Alternative Dispute Resolution in Dar es Salaam’s Legal Aid Clinics / Translating Women’s Rights in Niger: What Happened to the ‘Radical Challenge to Patriarchy?’ / Rights-Based Humanitarianism as Emancipation or Stratification? Rumors and Procedures of Verification in Urban Refugee Management in Kampala, Uganda / Emergent Eritrean Human Rights Movements: Politics, Law, and Culture in Transnational Perspective / Malawi’s Orphans: Children’s Rights in Relation to Humanitarianism, Compassion, and Childcare / Index / |
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Summary: | This book engages with contemporary African human rights struggles including land, property, gender equality and legal identity. Through ethnographic field studies it situates claims-making by groups and individuals that have been subject to injustices and abuses, often due to different forms of displacement, in specific geographical, historical and political contexts. Exploring local communities’ complexities and divided interests it addresses the ambiguities and tensions surrounding the processes whereby human rights have been incorporated into legislation, social and economic programs, legal advocacy, land reform, and humanitarian assistance. It shows how existing relations of inequality, domination and control are affected by the opportunities offered by emerging law and governance structures as a plurality of non-state actors enter what previously was considered the sole regulatory domain of the nation state. |
Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
ISBN: | 9004250131 |
Hierarchical level: | Monograph |
Statement of Responsibility: | edited by Bill Derman, Anne Hellum, and Kristin Bergtora Sandvik. |