Rights After Wrongs
Subtitle: Local Knowledge and Human Rights in Zimbabwe
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Published: May 25, 2016
Language: eng
Format: paperback
Number of pages: 212
ISBN-13: 9780804799089
Description: 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.
Notes: Source title: Rights After Wrongs: Local Knowledge and Human Rights in Zimbabwe (Stanford Studies in Human Rights)