Beyond law and development : resistance, empowerment and social injustice
- Full Title:
- Beyond law and development : resistance, empowerment and social injustice
- Other Author:
- Adelman, Sam.
Paliwala, Abdul H. - Statement of Responsibility:
- Edited By Sam Adelman, Abdul Paliwala
- Language:
- English
- Description:
- xv, 286 p.
- Summary:
- The book highlights new imaginaries required to transcend traditional approaches to law and development. The authors focus on injustices and harms to people and the...
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Summary:
The book highlights new imaginaries required to transcend traditional approaches to law and development. The authors focus on injustices and harms to people and the environment, and confront global injustices involving impoverishment, patriarchy, forced migration, global pandemics and intellectual rights in traditional medicine resulting from maldevelopment, bad governance and aftermaths of colonialism. New imaginaries emphasise deconstruction of fashionable myths of law, development, human rights, governance and post-coloniality to focus on communal and feminist relationality, non-western legal systems, personal responsibility for justice and forms of resistance to injustices. - Contents:
- • Introduction • Part I Towards New Imaginaries • Shifting the Frame from Law in Development to Ending Injustice • The Post-Hobbesian State, Sovereignty and...
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Contents:
• Introduction • Part I Towards New Imaginaries • Shifting the Frame from Law in Development to Ending Injustice • The Post-Hobbesian State, Sovereignty and Development • Returning the Anti-Colonial to Philosophy • The Constitution of Turbulence • ‘I Built this House on my Back’: An Historical Perspective on Care and Property in East Africa • The Role of Community in Human-Rights and Development Discourse: Resisting Apathy and Antipathy • Part II Rights and Injustices • Transnational human rights obligations: Beyond territory and state • Beyond Development: Human Rights, Personal Responsibility and the Search for Meaning • The Human Right to Water and Beyond: Some Reflections on Water Justice and Water Reform in Zimbabwe • Access to Justice for Refugees • Islamic Law, Social Justice and Injustices: The Case for Islamic Welfare Systems • Countering corruption to promote social justice in the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria: The Case of Uganda • ‘In My Own Village’: Chronotopes, Governmentality and the Changing Regulation of Traditional Medicine in Kenya - Publisher & Date:
- London ; New York : Routledge, 2022.
- Date of Publication:
- 2022
- Publisher:
- Routledge
- Classification:
- A 47.3
A 47.4 - ISBN:
- 9781138300323
9781032254135 (pbk)
9780203745298 (ebook)
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| Call Number | Location | Availability | Description | Loan Type |
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| A 47.3 Ade 2022 | General collection | On Shelf | - | For regular loan |
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A 47.3 Ade 2022
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General collection
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