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Author Clarke, Kamari Maxine

Title Fictions of Justice : the International Criminal Court and the Challenge of Legal Pluralism in Sub-Sahara Africa
Published Leiden : Cambridge University Press, 2009

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Description 1 online resource (352 pages)
Series Cambridge Studies in Law and Society
Cambridge studies in law and society.
Contents Cover; half-title; series-title; title; copyright; dedication; contents; preface; acknowledgments; introduction: the rule of law and its imbrications justice in the making; prologue: the international criminal court and the democratic republic of the congo; antecedents to the icc the former yugoslavia, rwanda, and sierra leone; the icc and competing notions of justice in sub-saharan africa; fictions and specters of justice; context and scope of the book; organization of the book; part one: the production of liberalist truth regimes
Chapter 1 constructing fictions: moral economies in the tribunalization of violencechapter 2 crafting the victim, crafting the perpetrator: new spaces of power, new specters of justice; chapter 3 multiple spaces of justice: uganda, the international criminal court, and the politics of inequality; part two: the religious politics of incommensurability; chapter 4 "religious" and "secular" micropractices: the roots of secular law, the political content of radical islamic be
Summary This book explores how notions of justice are negotiated through everyday micropractices and grassroots contestations of those practices
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Subject Legal polycentricity -- Africa, Sub-Saharan
International and municipal law -- Africa, Sub-Saharan
Religion and law -- Africa, Sub-Saharan
Criminal law -- Africa, Sub-Saharan
Criminal law
International and municipal law
Legal polycentricity
Religion and law
Sub-Saharan Africa
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780511540196
0511540191