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