Rights and the politics of recognition in Africa
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Rights and the politics of recognition in Africa
（Postcolonial encounters）
Zed Books, 2004
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"Published in association with the International Centre for Contemporary Cultural Research (ICCCR), Universities of Manchester and Keele, in 2004"--T.p. verso
Includes bibliographical references and index
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内容説明
This timely volume shows that, despite the global spread of a homogeneous neoliberal economic ideology, the need remains to understand variations in cultural values and political institutions. All over the world, people are claiming their rights. But are these claims prompted by similar values and aspirations? And even if human rights are universal, what are the consequences of claiming them in different historical, cultural and material realities? How do Western notions such as liberal individualism suit very different traditions that value sociability, negotiation and conviviality?
These questions are addressed in a wide variety of African countries whose very diversity compels careful thought about the meaning of such apparently universal values as democracy and rights. What are the consequences of introducing liberal institutions to African realities? How do Africans' ways of claiming rights challenge dominant Euro-American-inspired ideas and institutions?
Problems of xenophobia, land tenure, women's rights, nationalism, multi-partyism, minority rights, and cultural and ethnic 'authenticity' are among the volume's central themes. By laying bare some of the inadequacies of liberal individualism in highly plural societies, these detailed studies provide innovative critiques of such taken-for-granted concepts as civil society, democracy, citizenship and human rights, and unsettle dominant Euro-American paradigms.
目次
Acknowledgements
Notes on Contributors
Introduction: Recognising Identities, Imagining Alternatives - Harri Englund
PART 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 & Sean Jacobs
4. Taking Rights Talk Seriously: Reflections on Ugandan Political Discourse - Ulrik Halsteen
PART II: DISADVANTAGE, MISRECOGNITION, SUBJECTION
5. Deaf Culture: Problems of Recognition in Contemporary Kenyan Politics - Marianne 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
PART 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 Poly-Ethnic Eritrea - Redie Bereketeab
10. Ecology, Belonging and Xenophobia: The 1994 Forest Law in Cameroon and the Issue of 'Community' - Peter Geschiere
Epilogue - Richard Werbner
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