Worlds of human rights : the ambiguities of rights claiming in Africa /

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Worlds of Human Rights presents ethnographic studies from Sub Saharan Africa that highlight how individuals and groups use human rights to achieve greater justice. It shows how struggles concerning land, property, gender equality and legal identity are shaped by contexts of history, power structures...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Derman, William (Editor ), Hellum, Anne (Editor ), Sandvik, Kristin Bergtora (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Leiden : Brill, 2013.
Colección:Afrika-Studiecentrum series ; v. 26.
Temas:
Human rights > Africa, Sub-Saharan.
Droits de l'homme (Droit international) > Afrique subsaharienne.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Political Freedom & Security > Civil Rights.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Political Freedom & Security > Human Rights.
Human rights.
Sub-Saharan Africa.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Ethnographic and historical perspectives on rights claiming on the African continent / Bill Derman, Anne Hellum and Kristin Bergtora Sandvik
  • Introduction to land, property and human rights / 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 to human rights in a gendered, relational and plural legal landscape / 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 Henquinet
  • Introduction to the multiple tracks of human rights and humanitarianism / 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.

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