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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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.