Fictions of justice : the International Criminal Court and the challenges of legal pluralism in Sub-Saharan Africa /
Kamari Maxine Clarke.
- Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2009.
- xxv, 322 p. ; 24 cm.
- Cambridge studies in law and society .
- Cambridge studies in law and society. .
Includes bibliographical references (p. 283-306) and index.
Constructing fictions : moral economies in the tribunalization of violence -- Crafting the victim, crafting the perpetrator : new spaces of power, new specters of justice -- Multiple spaces of justice : Uganda, the International Criminal Court and the politics of inequality -- "Religious" and "secular" micropractices : the roots of secular law, the political content of radical Islamic beliefs -- "The hand will go to hell" : Islamic law and the crafting of the spiritual self -- Islamic sharia at the crossroads : human rights challenges and the strategic translation of vernacular imaginaries.
9780521889100 (hbk.) 9780521717793 (pbk.)
2008052909
Legal polycentricity--Africa, Sub-Saharan. International and municipal law--Africa, Sub-Saharan. Religion and law--Africa, Sub-Saharan. Criminal law--Africa, Sub-Saharan.