Normative Spaces and Legal Dynamics in Africa

The book explores African legal realities by examining the interplay of transnational, regional, and local normative frameworks, institutions, and practices. It adopts a spatial approach to understand power relations, institutionalization, and the production of legitimacy and normativities. Case studies from thirteen African countries provide empirical data and insights into specific normative spaces. The chapters analyze the interrelationships between different normative orders, diverse actors, and their influences, highlighting the negotiation of values in these encounters. The volume offers nuanced perspectives on jurisprudence in Africa and serves as a valuable resource for scholars and students in anthropology, legal geography, legal studies, sociology, political sciences, international relations, African studies, and related fields.

Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 316 pages
Publication date: 01 February 2022
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd

African legal realities showcase a complex interplay of transnational, regional, and local normative frameworks, institutions, and practices that defy the notion of a sovereign territorial state. This comprehensive book delves into the novel configurations of governance actors and the contextual factors that shape their interactions and rivalries. Adopting a spatial perspective, the work emphasizes the significance of normative spaces in understanding power dynamics, institutionalization processes, and the creation of legitimacy and normativities.

Thirteen selected case studies from across Africa provide valuable empirical data and insightful perspectives from within specific normative spaces. The individual chapters examine the intricate interconnections between different normative orders, diverse actors, and their influences. The encounters between diverse normative understandings and actors create avenues for value negotiation and the reshaping of Africas multifaceted normative landscapes.

The authors analyze how different doctrines, institutions, and practices are constructed, contested, negotiated, and adapted during translation processes, thereby continuously reshaping Africas multidimensional normative spaces. This volume offers nuanced perspectives on jurisprudence in Africa and serves as an invaluable resource for scholars and students in anthropology, legal geography, legal studies, sociology, political sciences, international relations, African studies, and anyone seeking to enhance their understanding of how legal constellations are shaped by unreflected assumptions about the state and the rule of law.

Weight: 585g
Dimension: 234 x 156 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781032235608