Editors:
- Analyzes African women in the context of justice in southern Africa
- Highlights the complex and organic ways in which women have power and influence in relation to justice on the ground
- Challenges the literature stating that informal justice and governance practices are necessarily disempowering of women
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Table of contents (7 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
About this book
This book explores justice ‘on the ground’ in Southern African communities, and in particular the roles that women play in these processes. Justice on the ground is often critiqued for being male-dominated and patriarchal. This volume seeks to unpack and problematize this assumption through the case studies of Namibia, Zimbabwe, Mozambique and South Africa. Contributions focus on the lived experiences of women and the intersections of race, class, culture and the colonial experience that shape their lives. In the rural and peri-urban contexts discussed in this book, justice on the ground is found to be relational. The network of relationships between people and the well-being and health of a community as an integral whole continue to be of central importance as the survival of the community depends on the entire community functioning interdependently.
An engagement with African feminisms is helpful in providing a number of lenses, or simply questions, through which to readthe case studies. These case studies reveal the complex and organic ways in which women have power and influence in relation to justice on the ground which may not be immediately obvious.Editors and Affiliations
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Centre for Mediation in Africa, University of Pretoria, Hatfield, South Africa
Cori Wielenga
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: African Feminisms and Women in the Context of Justice in Southern Africa
Editors: Cori Wielenga
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-82128-9
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Political Science and International Studies, Political Science and International Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2022
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-82127-2Published: 08 October 2021
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-82130-2Published: 08 October 2022
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-82128-9Published: 07 October 2021
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVII, 117
Number of Illustrations: 1 b/w illustrations
Topics: African Politics, Development Studies, Human Rights