Fictions of justice
Subtitle: the International criminal court and the challenges of legal pluralism in sub-Saharan Africa
By: Kamari Maxine Clarke.
Series: Cambridge studies in law and society
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 322
ISBN-13: 9780521889100; 9780521717793
Subjects: Legal polycentricity -- Africa, Sub-Saharan.; International and municipal law -- Africa, Sub-Saharan.; Religion and law -- Africa, Sub-Saharan.; Criminal law -- Africa, Sub-Saharan.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Micropractices of justice making : the moral and political economy of the "rule of law"; title: Crafting the victim, crafting the perpetrator : new spaces of power, new specters of justice; title: Multiple spaces of justice : Uganda, the International Criminal Court and the politics of inequality; title: "Religious" and "secular" micropractices : the religious roots of secular law, the political content of radical Islamic beliefs; title: "The hand will go to hell" : Islamic law and the crafting of the spiritual self; title: Islamic sharia at the crossroads : human rights challenges and the strategic reworking of vernacular imaginaries.