Rights After Wrongs: Local Knowledge and Human Rights in Zimbabwe

by Shannon Morreira

Book Overview

The international legal framework of human rights presents itself as universal. But rights do not exist as a mere framework; they are enacted, practiced, and debated in local contexts. Rights After Wrongs ethnographically explores the chasm between the ideals and the practice of human rights. Specifically, it shows where the sweeping colonial logics of Western law meets the lived experiences, accumulated histories, and humanitarian debts...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0804799083
• ISBN13: 9780804799089
• Release Date: May 2016
• Publisher: Stanford University Press
• Length: 216 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.0" x 8.9"