Title: Rights after wrongs : local knowledge and human rights in Zimbabwe /
Authors: Morreira, Shannon, 1982-
Year: 2016
Subjects: Human rights Anthropological aspects Zimbabwe.; International law and human rights Zimbabwe.; Zimbabweans Civil rights South Africa.; Menschenrechtspolitik.; Simbabwe
Abstract: Through a comprehensive survey of human rights scholarship, Shannon Morreira explores the ways in which the global framework of human rights is locally interpreted, constituted, and contested in Harare, Zimbabwe, and Musina and Cape Town, South Africa. Presenting the stories of those who lived through the violent struggles of the past decades, Morreira shows how supposedly universal ideals become localized in the context of post-colonial Southern Africa. Rights After Wrongs uncovers the disconnect between the ways human rights appear on paper and the ways in which it is possible for people to use and understand them in everyday life.
Contents: "Panel-beating the law" : constitution-making in Zimbabwe -- Justice in a time of impunity : remaking social worlds after political violence -- Producing knowledge about human rights in Harare -- Personhood and rights among Zimbabwean migrants in South Africa.