Worlds of Human Rights The Ambiguities of Rights Claiming in Africa 1st Edition by Bill Derman, Anne Hellum, Kristin Sandvik 9004250131 9789004250130

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ISBN 10: 9004250131 

ISBN 13: 9789004250130

Author: Bill Derman; Anne Hellum; Kristin Sandvik

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 and legal pluralism.

Table of contents:

Preliminary Material

Ethnographic and Historical Perspectives on Rights Claiming on the African Continent

Introduction

Land Rights, Human Rights and Development: Contestations in Land Restitution, Limpopo Province, South Africa

‘Property’ and ‘Rights’ in a South African Land Claim Case

‘We agreed to move, but we did not do so freely’. Resettlement from the Limpopo National Park, Mozambique

Introduction

Between Common Community Interest and Gender Difference: Women in South Africa’s Land Restitution Process

Multiple Threats, Manifold Strategies: Women, the State and Secure Tenure at the Interface of Human Rights and Local Practices in Dar es Salaam

Coercive Harmony?: Realizing Women’s Rights through Alternative Dispute Resolution in Dar es Salaam’s Legal Aid Clinics

Translating Women’s Rights in Niger: What Happened to the ‘Radical Challenge to Patriarchy?’

Introduction

Rights-Based Humanitarianism as Emancipation or Stratification? Rumors and Procedures of Verification in Urban Refugee Management in Kampala, Uganda

Emergent Eritrean Human Rights Movements: Politics, Law, and Culture in Transnational Perspective

Malawi’s Orphans: Children’s Rights in Relation to Humanitarianism, Compassion, and Childcare

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