Competing Norms : State Regulations and Local Praxis in sub-Saharan Africa

Isaiah Afu

ISBN 10: 359350653X / ISBN 13: 9783593506531

Editore: Campus Verlag, University Of Chicago Press Okt 2016, 2016

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Neuware - Meist wird der Staat in Afrika, wie auch anderswo, als Träger von Ordnung, Fortschritt und Disziplin gesehen, da er über die Autorität verfügt, Gesetze zu erlassen und deren Einhaltung zum Wohl der Gesellschaft zu sanktionieren. Dieser Band untersucht die Bedeutung der staatlichen Gesetzgebung für die Bevölkerungen im subsaharischen Afrika und setzt diese in Beziehung zu bereits existierenden lokalen Normen, mit denen die neuen Gesetze konkurrieren müssen.

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• Titolo: Competing Norms : State Regulations and Local Praxis in sub-Saharan Africa
• Editore: Campus Verlag, University Of Chicago Press Okt 2016
• Data di pubblicazione: 2016
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 359350653X
• ISBN 13: 9783593506531
• Rilegatura: Taschenbuch
• Condizione: Neu
• Dimensioni: 213 L x 174 A x 17 P (millimetri) 213 millimetri di larghezza per 174 millimetri di altezza per 17 millimetri di profondità
• Peso: 350 grammi

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Riassunto

States in sub-Saharan Africa, as anywhere else, are vested with the authority to implement laws and sanction their application. But in spite of a growing emphasis in Africa on participatory approaches to legislation, little research has focused on the extent to which the public has become involved in policy making and whether the state regulations that have been produced have proven publicly beneficial. Offering a new anthropological perspective, Competing Norms fills that gap by exploring how people in sub-Saharan Africa view new regulations in the light of preexisting local norms with which new regulations often compete. A collection of international, interdisciplinary contributors discusses the competing local, state, and international norms as they have evolved over time, unfolding the intricate ambivalences and contradictions that often characterize state regulations.

Informazioni sull?autore

Mamadou Diawara is professor of African anthropology at Goethe-Universität Frankfurt. Ute Röschenthaler is professor of social and cultural anthropology at the Johannes Gutenberg University in Mainz, Germany. Together they are the coeditors of Copyright Africa: How Intellectual Property, Media and Markets Transform Immaterial Cultural Goods.