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 is made real.
| ISBN: | 9780521889100 |
| Publication date: | 25th May 2009 |
| Author: | Kamari Maxine Yale University, Connecticut Clarke |
| Publisher: | Cambridge University Press |
| Format: | Hardback |
| Pagination: | 352 pages |
| Series: | Cambridge Studies in Law and Society |
| Genres: |
Law and society, sociology of law |
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 is made real.
Fictions of Justice features in the following genres: Law and society, sociology of law
Fictions of Justice is available in Paperback, Hardback
Fictions of Justice was written by Kamari Maxine Yale University, Connecticut Clarke and published by Cambridge University Press
Fictions of Justice has 352 pages
Yes it is part of Cambridge Studies in Law and Society series
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