Spirit of the Laws in Mozambique
"This anthropological study, spiced by a philosophical touch, magnificently explores local appropriations of a national law reform in the turmoil of the post-Cold War moment. The revival of customary law, deeply affected by socialism but now in a neoliberal context, produces hybrids that help people to steer their lives through great uncertainties. A challenging study that opens up new perspectives for understanding the 'structural adjustment state' and its uneasy compromises with rapidly evolving customary practices." (Peter Geschiere, author of Witchcraft, Intimacy, and Trust)"
Mozambique has been hailed as a success story by the international community, which has watched it evolve through a series of violent political upheavals: from colonialism, through socialism, to its current democracy. Les mer
Ultimately, he looks toward local rituals and relations as producing an emergent kind of citizenship in Africa, which he dubs "customary citizenship," forming not a vestige of the past but a yet ill-defined political future.
Detaljer
- Forlag
- University of Chicago Press
- Innbinding
- Paperback
- Språk
- Engelsk
- Sider
- 280
- ISBN
- 9780226153865
- Utgivelsesår
- 2014
- Format
- 2 x 2 cm
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"This anthropological study, spiced by a philosophical touch, magnificently explores local appropriations of a national law reform in the turmoil of the post-Cold War moment. The revival of customary law, deeply affected by socialism but now in a neoliberal context, produces hybrids that help people to steer their lives through great uncertainties. A challenging study that opens up new perspectives for understanding the 'structural adjustment state' and its uneasy compromises with rapidly evolving customary practices." (Peter Geschiere, author of Witchcraft, Intimacy, and Trust)"