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Author Clarke, Kamari Maxine, 1966-

Title Fictions of justice : the International criminal court and the challenges of legal pluralism in sub-Saharan Africa / Kamari Maxine Clarke.

Publication Info. Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2009.

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Description 1 online resource (xxv, 322 pages).
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Series Cambridge studies in law and society
Cambridge studies in law and society.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 283-306) and index.
Contents Constructing fictions : moral economies in the tribunalization of violence -- Crafting the victim, crafting the perpetrator : new spaces of power, new specters of justice -- Multiple spaces of justice : Uganda, the International Criminal Court and the politics of inequality -- "Religious" and "secular" micropractices : the roots of secular law, the political content of radical Islamic beliefs -- "The hand will go to hell" : Islamic law and the crafting of the spiritual self -- Islamic sharia at the crossroads : human rights challenges and the strategic translation of vernacular imaginaries.
Summary This book explores how notions of justice are negotiated through everyday micropractices and grassroots contestations of those practices.
Local Note eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America
Subject Internationaler Strafgerichtshof.
Legal polycentricity -- Africa, Sub-Saharan.
Legal polycentricity.
Sub-Saharan Africa.
International and municipal law -- Africa, Sub-Saharan.
International and municipal law.
Religion and law -- Africa, Sub-Saharan.
Religion and law.
Criminal law -- Africa, Sub-Saharan.
Criminal law.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Subject Criminal law.
Other Form: Print version: Clarke, Kamari Maxine, 1966- Fictions of justice. Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2009 (DLC) 2008052909
ISBN 9780511650833 (electronic book)
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