Fictions of justice : the International criminal court and the challenges of legal pluralism in sub-Saharan Africa /
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| Author / Creator: | Clarke, Kamari Maxine, 1966- |
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| Imprint: | Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2009. |
| Description: | 1 online resource (xxv, 322 pages) |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Cambridge studies in law and society Cambridge studies in law and society. |
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| Format: | E-Resource Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11814634 |
| Summary: | By taking up the challenge of documenting how human rights values are embedded in rule of law movements to produce a new language of international justice that competes with a range of other formations, this book explores how notions of justice are negotiated through everyday micropractices and grassroots contestations of those practices. These micropractices include speech acts that revere the protection of international rights, citation references to treaty documents, the brokering of human rights agendas, the rewriting of national constitutions, demonstrations of religiosity that make explicit the piety of religious subjects, and ritual practices of forgiveness that involve the invocation of ancestral religious cosmologies all practices that detail the ways that justice, as a social fiction, is made real within particular relations of power. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xxv, 322 pages) |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 283-306) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780511650833 0511650833 9780511626869 051162686X 1107201160 9781107201163 0511646755 9780511646751 9786612391163 6612391162 0511539355 9780511539350 0511538529 9780511538520 0511540191 9780511540196 9780521889100 0521889103 9780521717793 0521717795 |