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Normative Spaces and Legal Dynamics in Africa book cover

1st Edition

Normative Spaces and Legal Dynamics in Africa

Edited By Katrin Seidel, Hatem Elliesie Copyright 2020
316 Pages
by Routledge

316 Pages
by Routledge

316 Pages
by Routledge
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African legal realities reflect an intertwining of transnational, regional, and local normative frameworks, institutions, and practices that challenge the idea of the sovereign territorial state. This book analyses the novel constellations of governance actors and conditions under which they interact and compete. The work follows a spatial approach as the emphasis on normative spaces opens... Read more

PROLOGUE Normative Spaces In Africa: Constructing, Contesting, Renegotiating, And Adapting Dynamics
Katrin Seidel And Hatem Elliesie

PART I constructing Normative Spaces

1 ‘Forensic Fetishism’ And Human Rights After Violent Conflict: Uncovering Somaliland’s Troubled Past
Markus Virgil Hoehne And Shakira Bedoya Sánchez

2 Transitional Justice Atmospheres: The Role Of Space And Affect In The International Criminal Court’s Outreach Efforts In Northern Uganda
Jonas Bens

3 The Libyan Constitution-Making Process: A Tool For State-Building In A Divided Socio-Normative Space?
Felix-Anselm Van Lier

PART II Contesting Normative Spaces

4 Challenges, Limits, And Prospects Of ‘Judicial Governance’ In Nigeria’s Political Translation (1999–2014)
Hakeem O Yusuf

5 Contesting Normative Spaces: The Status Of African Traditional Courts Under International Human Rights Law
Prosper Simbarashe Maguchu

6 Protecting Groups In Africa: Between International Law, National Law, And Local Customary Law
Julia Kriesel

PART III Re-Negotiating Normative Spaces

7 Mind The Gaps: Renegotiating South African Legal Pluralism Within The Post-Apartheid State
Olaf Zenker

8 Judicial Governance In Ghana: Negotiating Jurisdictional Authority In The Post-Colonial State
Tillmann Schneider

9 Living Customary Law In South Africa: Negotiating Spaces For Women In Traditional Communities
Lisa Heemann

PART IV Adapting Normative Spaces

10 The Legal Laboratory In Rwanda: Experimentalization And Adaptation
Stefanie Bognitz

11 Negotiated Outcomes In Low-Resourced Courts: Tanzania’s Land Courts System
Kelly Askew

12 Land Grabbing In Ethiopia: Questioning FDI And Big Government Projects
Daniel Behailu Gebreamanuel

13 Whither Courts? Forest Protection In Kenya: Case Of Mau Forest
Hannah W Wanderi

EPILOGUE Beyond A Linear Model Of Law In Space And Time
Anne Griffiths

Biography

Katrin Seidel is a research fellow in the Law and Anthropology Department of the Max  Planck  Institute  for  Social  Anthropology,  Germany,  a  former  post-doctoral  fellow at Käte Hamburger Kolleg, Centre for Global Cooperation Research, and the Academic  Coordinator  of  the  ‘RSF  Hub’  (Joint  Network  Rule  of  Law  support)  at  Freie  Universität  Berlin,  in  collaboration  with  the  German  Federal  Foreign  Office.  Based  on  her  interdisciplinary  background  in  law  and  African/Asian  studies,  her  research  is  situated  at  the  intersection  of  legal  pluralism,  heterogeneous  statehood,  and governance.

Hatem  Elliesie  is  a  Max  Planck  Group  Leader  in  the  Law  and  Anthropology  Department of the Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology as well as member of the Executive Committee of the African Law Association in Germany. He earned his PhD at the Freie University in Berlin, with a dissertation dealing with Ethiopia’s and Eritrea’s related legal history, and holds a Magister Legum Europae (MLE) degree from Malta University and the University of Hannover.

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