Dear all,
I would like to inform you about the panel *"**Law in Africa: Charting
one’s course of action in a field of multiple normative orders"* that my
colleague Annelien Bouland and I are organizing for the ECAS Edinburgh 2019
Conference (deadline 21 January 2019).
Our panel might be interesting for anthropologists with an interest in
socio-legal studies, legal pluralism and/or hybrid governance.
For more information or submission see:
https://nomadit.co.uk/ecas/ecas2019/conferencesuite.php/panels/7566
Short abstract:
This panel builds on socio-legal theories on law and governance in Africa
and is concerned with the way people interact in complex legal settings. It
takes up how people understand, give meaning to and navigate multiple
(co)existing legal and normative orders that set several (overlapping or
competing) rules for social and economic life.
Long abstract:
Africa has experienced a long history of legal change. Central and
particularly disruptive instances of such change are colonization and the
concomitant importation of laws, as well as the definition of state
boundaries, often resulting in complex legal settings where multiple legal
and normative orders (co)exist and interact in the governance of social,
economic and political relationships.
This complexity creates tension, as different frameworks of law and
governance overlap and may compete for societal legitimacy. This also means
that, in going about their everyday lives, people may choose between
multiple norms and authorities while simultaneously being constrained by
the social relationships in which they take part. Examples range from the
street-level tax man, to a police officer trying to implement norms on
gender-based violence, to a man quarrelling with his neighbour over the
demarcation of his property. This panel is concerned with the way people
understand, give meaning to and act upon legal, quasi-legal and normative
orders. Existing scholarship highlights how people may make strategic
choices in shopping between different forums. Other authors have equally
drawn attention to the importance of the local context, power relationships
and the social-economic networks people are engaged in. The aim of this
panel is to discuss and build on these ideas. We welcome papers that
contribute new case studies as well as papers with a more theoretical
focus. We especially encourage academics from within the region of interest
to reply.
Warm regards,
Annelien and Danse
D.A.M. de Bondt, MSc | PhD Candidate | European Joint Doctorate in Law and
Development (EDOLAD) | Public Law and Governance | Tilburg Law School |
Centre of African Studies | The University of Edinburgh
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