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Rights and the Politics of Recognition in Africa / Harri Englund & Francis B. Nyamnjoh, editors.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextSeries: Postcolonial encountersPublication details: London ; New York : Zed Books ; New York : Distributed in the USA by Palgrave Macmillan, 2004.Description: xiv, 283 p. ; 22 cmISBN:
  • 1842772821
  • 184277283X
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 323.0967 22 RIG
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Contents:
Introduction : recognizing identities, imagining alternatives / Harri Englund -- Pt. I. The rhetoric of rights -- 1. Reconciling 'the rhetoric of rights' with competing notions of personhood and agency in Botswana / Francis B. Nyamnjoh -- 2. The rhetoric of human rights in Malawi : individualization and judicialization / Fidelis Edge Kanyongolo -- 3. Democratization and the rhetoric of rights : contradictions and debate in post-apartheid South Africa / Krista Johnson and Sean Jacobs -- 4. Taking rights talk seriously : reflections on Ugandan political discourse / Ulrik Halsteen -- Pt. II. Disadvantage, misrecognition, subjection -- 5. Deaf culture : problems of recognition in contemporary Kenyan politics / Marianne Sogaard Andersen -- 6. Neoliberal ideologies, identity and gender : managing diversity in Mauritius / Sheila Bunwaree -- 7. 'It will rain until we are in power!' : floods, elections and memory in Mozambique / Bjorn Enge Bertelsen -- Pt. III. Elites and communities -- 8. Ethnic identification in voluntary associations : the politics of development and culture in Burkina Faso / Sten Hagberg -- 9. Perilous dualisms : language, religion and identity in polyethnic Eritrea / Redie Bereketeab -- 10. Ecology, belonging and xenophobia : the 1994 forest law in Cameroon and the issue of 'community' / Peter Geschiere -- Epilogue : the new dialogue with post-liberalism / Richard Werbner.
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"In association with the International Centre for Contemporary Cultural Research (ICCCR), Universities of Manchester and Keele"--T.p. verso.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction : recognizing identities, imagining alternatives / Harri Englund -- Pt. I. The rhetoric of rights -- 1. Reconciling 'the rhetoric of rights' with competing notions of personhood and agency in Botswana / Francis B. Nyamnjoh -- 2. The rhetoric of human rights in Malawi : individualization and judicialization / Fidelis Edge Kanyongolo -- 3. Democratization and the rhetoric of rights : contradictions and debate in post-apartheid South Africa / Krista Johnson and Sean Jacobs -- 4. Taking rights talk seriously : reflections on Ugandan political discourse / Ulrik Halsteen -- Pt. II. Disadvantage, misrecognition, subjection -- 5. Deaf culture : problems of recognition in contemporary Kenyan politics / Marianne Sogaard Andersen -- 6. Neoliberal ideologies, identity and gender : managing diversity in Mauritius / Sheila Bunwaree -- 7. 'It will rain until we are in power!' : floods, elections and memory in Mozambique / Bjorn Enge Bertelsen -- Pt. III. Elites and communities -- 8. Ethnic identification in voluntary associations : the politics of development and culture in Burkina Faso / Sten Hagberg -- 9. Perilous dualisms : language, religion and identity in polyethnic Eritrea / Redie Bereketeab -- 10. Ecology, belonging and xenophobia : the 1994 forest law in Cameroon and the issue of 'community' / Peter Geschiere -- Epilogue : the new dialogue with post-liberalism / Richard Werbner.

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