Worlds of human rights : the ambiguities of rights claiming in Africa / / edited by Bill Derman, Anne Hellum, and Kristin Bergtora Sandvik.

• Superior document: Afrika-Studiecentrum Series ; Volume 26
• TeilnehmendeR: Derman, William.; Hellum, Anne.; Sandvik, Kristin Bergtora.
• Year of Publication: 2013
• Language: English
• Series: Afrika-Studiecentrum series ; Volume 26.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (352 p.)
• Notes: Includes index.; "This book is the result of a long standing collaboration among: Department of Anthropology, the African Studies Center and the Center for Gender in a Global Context at Michigan State University, the Institute of Women's Law at the University of Oslo, VU University Amsterdam, the Center for Poverty, Land and Agrarian Studies at the University of the Western Cape, Bunda College of the University of Malawi, the Peace Research Institute of Oslo, and the Department of International Environment and Development Studies at the Norwegian University of the Life Sciences."--Acknowledgements.

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.

Table of Contents

Preliminary Material / Bill Derman , Anne Hellum and Kristin Bergtora Sandvik -- Ethnographic and Historical Perspectives on Rights Claiming on the African Continent / Bill Derman , Anne Hellum and Kristin Bergtora Sandvik -- Introduction / Bill Derman -- Land Rights, Human Rights and Development: Contestations in Land Restitution, Limpopo Province, South Africa / Bill Derman , Anne Hellum and Tshililo Manenzhe -- ‘Property’ and ‘Rights’ in a South African Land Claim Case / Knut G Nustad -- ‘We agreed to move, but we did not do so freely’. Resettlement from the Limpopo National Park, Mozambique / Marja Spierenburg -- Introduction / Anne Hellum -- Between Common Community Interest and Gender Difference: Women in South Africa's Land Restitution Process / Anne Hellum and Bill Derman -- Multiple Threats, Manifold Strategies: Women, the State and Secure Tenure at the Interface of Human Rights and Local Practices in Dar es Salaam / Ingunn Ikdahl -- Coercive Harmony?: Realizing Women’s Rights through Alternative Dispute Resolution in Dar es Salaam’s Legal Aid Clinics / Natalie J. Bourdon -- Translating Women’s Rights in Niger: What Happened to the ‘Radical Challenge to Patriarchy?’ / Kari Bergstrom Henquine -- Introduction / Kristin Bergtora Sandvik -- Rights-Based Humanitarianism as Emancipation or Stratification? Rumors and Procedures of Verification in Urban Refugee Management in Kampala, Uganda / Kristin Bergtora Sandvik -- Emergent Eritrean Human Rights Movements: Politics, Law, and Culture in Transnational Perspective / Tricia Redeker Hepner -- Malawi’s Orphans: Children’s Rights in Relation to Humanitarianism, Compassion, and Childcare / Andrea Freidus -- Index / Bill Derman , Anne Hellum and Kristin Bergtora Sandvik.