Normative Spaces and Legal Dynamics in Africa.

Cover -- Half Title -- Series -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- List of contributors -- PROLOGUE Normative spaces in Africa: constructing, contesting, renegotiating, and adapting dynamics -- Part I Constructing normative spaces -- 1 'Forensic Fetishism' and human rights after violent conflict: uncovering Somaliland's troubled past -- 2 Transitional justice atmospheres: the role of space and affect in the International Criminal Court's outreach efforts in Northern Uganda -- 3 The Libyan constitution-making process: a tool for state-building in a divided socio-normative space? -- Part II Contesting normative spaces -- 4 Challenges, limits, and prospects of 'Judicial Governance' in Nigeria's political translation (1999-2014) -- 5 Contesting normative spaces: the status of African traditional courts under international human rights law -- 6 Protecting groups in Africa: between international law, national law, and local customary law -- Part III Re-negotiating normative spaces -- 7 Mind the gaps: renegotiating South African legal pluralism within the post-apartheid state -- 8 Judicial governance in Ghana: negotiating jurisdictional authority in the post-colonial state -- 9 Living customary law in South Africa: negotiating spaces for women in traditional communities -- Part IV Adapting normative spaces -- 10 The legal laboratory in Rwanda: experimentalization and adaptation -- 11 Negotiated outcomes in low-resourced courts: Tanzania's land courts system -- 12 Land grabbing in Ethiopia: questioning FDI and big government projects -- 13 Whither courts? Forest protection in Kenya: case of Mau Forest -- EPILOGUE Beyond a linear model of law in space and time -- Glossary of acronyms -- Index.

The volume delivers nuanced views of jurisprudence in Africa and presents an excellent resource for scholars and students of anthropology, legal geography, legal studies, sociology, political sciences, international relations, African studies.

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