Prologue -- Normative Spaces in Africa: Constructing, Contesting, Renegotiating, and Adapting Legal Dynamics / Katrin Seidel and Hatem Elliesie -- Part II. Contesting Normative Spaces -- 'Forensic Fetishism' and Human Rights after Violent Conflict: Uncovering Somaliland's Troubled Past / Markus Virgil Höhne & Shakira Bedoya Sánchez -- Transitional Justice Atmospheres: The Role of Space and Affect in the International Criminal Court's Outreach Efforts in Northern Uganda / Jonas Bens -- The Libyan Constitution-Making Process: A Tool for State-Building in a Divided Socio-Normative Space? / Felix-Anselm van Lier -- Part II. Contesting Normative Space -- Challenges, Limits and Prospects of 'Judicial Governance' in Nigeria's Political Translation (1999-2014) / Hakeem O Yusuf -- Contesting Normative Spaces: The Status of African Traditional Courts under International Human Rights Law / Prosper Simbarashe Maguchu -- Protecting Groups in Africa: Between International Law, National Law, and Local Customary Law / Julia Kriesel -- Part III. Re-negotiating Normative Spaces -- Mind the Gaps: Renegotiating South African Legal Pluralism within the Post-apartheid State / Olaf Zenker -- Judicial Governance in Ghana: Negotiating Jurisdictional Authority in the Post-colonial State / Tillmann Schneider -- Living Customary Law in South Africa: Negotiating Spaces for Women in Traditional Communities / Lisa Heemann -- Part IV. Adapting Normative Spaces -- The Legal Laboratory in Rwanda: Experimentalization and Adaptation / Stefanie Bognitz -- Negotiated Outcomes in Low-Resourced Courts: Tanzania's Land Courts System / Kelly Askew -- Land Grabbing in Ethiopia: Questioning FDI and Big Government Projects / Daniel Behailu Gebreamanuel -- Whither Courts? Forest Protection in Kenya: Case of Mau Forest / Hannah W Wanderi -- Epilogue -- Beyond a Linear Model of Law in Space and Time / Anne Griffiths.

"Selected case studies from thirteen African countries deliver new empirical data and grounded insights from, and into, particular normative spaces. The individual chapters explore the interrelationships between various normative orders, diverse actors, and their influences. The encounters between different normative understandings and actors open up space and multiple forums for negotiating values. The authors analyse how different doctrines, institutions, and practices are constructed, contested, negotiated, and adapted in translation processes and thereby continuously reshape Africa's multidimensional normative spaces"-- Provided by publisher.

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