Book Details
Orange Code:91265
Paperback:352 pages
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1. Constructing Fictions: Moral Economies in the Tribunalization of Violence2. Crafting the Victim, Crafting the Perpetrator: New Spaces of Power, New Specters of Justice3. Multiple Spaces of Justice: Uganda, the I nternational Criminal Court, and the Politics of Inequality4. “Religious” and “Secular” Micropractices: The Roots of Secular Law, the Political Content of Radical Islamic Beliefs5. “The Hand Will Go to Hell”: Islamic Law and the Crafting of the Spiritual Self6. Islamic Sharia at the Crossroads: Human Rights Challenges and the Strategic Translation of Vernacular Imaginaries
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By taking up the challenge of documenting how human rights values are embedded in rule of law movements to produce a new language of international justice that competes with a range of other formations, this book explores how notions of justice are negotiated through everyday micropractices and grassroots contestations of those practices. These micropractices include speech acts that revere the protection of international rights, citation references to treaty documents, the brokering of human rights agendas, the rewriting of national constitutions, demonstrations of religiosity that make explicit the piety of religious subjects, and ritual practices of forgiveness that involve the invocation of ancestral religious cosmologies - all practices that detail the ways that justice, as a social fiction, is made real within particular relations of power
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