Steffen Jensen / Andrew Jefferson (ed.)

State Violence and Human Rights

State Officials in the South
Herausgeber: Jensen, Steffen; Jefferson, Andrew

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

State Violence and Human Rights addresses how legal practices - rooted in global human rights discourse or local demands - take hold in societies where issues of state violence remain to be resolved. Attempts to make societies accountable to human rights norms regularly draw on international legal conventions governing state conduct. As such, interventions tend to be based on inherently normative assumptions about conflict, justice, rights and law, and so often fail to take into consideration the reality of local circumstances, and in particular of state institutions and their structures of authority. Against the grain of these analyses, State Violence and Human Rights takes as its point of departure the fact that law and authority are contested. Grounded in the recognition that concepts of rights and legal practices are not fixed, the contributors to this volume address their contestation 'in situ'; as they focus on the everyday practices of state officials, non-state authorities and reformers. Addressing how state representatives - the police officer, the prison officer, the ex-combatant militia member, the hangman and the traditional leader - have to negotiate the tensions between international legal imperatives, the expectations of donors, the demands of institutions, as well as their own interests, this volume thus explores how legal discourses are translated from policy into everyday practice.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge-Cavendish
• Seitenzahl: 226
• Erscheinungstermin: 20. Februar 2009
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 240mm x 161mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 508g
• ISBN-13: 9780415477727
• ISBN-10: 0415477727
• Artikelnr.: 26488210

Autorenporträt

Steffen Jensen, Andrew Jefferson

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction Andrew M. Jefferson and Steffen Jensen 1. The Politics of
Palestinian Legal Reform: Judicial Independence and Accountability Under
Occupation Tobias Kelly 2. Traditional Authority and Localization of State
Law: The Intricacies of Boundary Making in Policing Rural Mozambique
Helene Maria Kyed 3. The Vision of the State: Audiences, Enchantments and
Policing in South Africa Steffen Jensen 4. Translating Human Rights in the
Margins: A Police-Migrant Encounter in Johannesburg Julia Hornberger 5. The
Special Field Force and Namibian Ex-Combatant 'Reintegration' Lalli Metsola
6. On Hangings and the Dubious Embodiment of Statehood in Nigerian Prisons
Andrew M. Jefferson 7. Taking the Snake out of the Basket - Indian Prison
Warders' Opposition to Human Rights Reform Tomas Martin 8. Community
Policing Programmes as Police Human Rights Strategies in Costa Rica
Quirine Eijkman 9. Commentary: The Piggy-in-the-Middle Mike Brogden