Rights and the politics of recognition in Africa

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Acknowledgements Notes on Contributors Introduction: Recognising Identities, Imagining Alternatives - Harri Englund PART I: THE RHETORIC OF RIGHTS 1. Reconciling 'the Rhetoric of Rights' with Competing Notions of Personhood and Agency in Botswana - Francis B. Nyamnjoh 2. The Rhetoric of Human Rights in Malawi: Individualization and Judicialization - Fidelis Edge Kanyongolo 3. Democratization and the Rhetoric of Rights: Contradictions and Debate in Post-Apartheid South Africa - Krista Johnson & Sean Jacobs 4. Taking Rights Talk Seriously: Reflections on Ugandan Political Discourse - Ulrik Halsteen PART II: DISADVANTAGE, MISRECOGNITION, SUBJECTION 5. Deaf Culture: Problems of Recognition in Contemporary Kenyan Politics - Marianne Andersen 6. Neoliberal Ideologies, Identity and Gender: Managing Diversity in Mauritius - Sheila Bunwaree 7. 'It Will Rain until We Are in Power': Floods, Elections and Memory in Mozambique - Bjorn Enge Bertelsen PART III: ELITES AND COMMUNITIES 8. Ethnic Identification in Voluntary Associations: The Politics of Development and Culture in Burkina Faso - Sten Hagberg 9. Perilous Dualisms: Language, Religion and Identity in Poly-Ethnic Eritrea - Redie Bereketeab 10. Ecology, Belonging and Xenophobia: The 1994 Forest Law in Cameroon and the Issue of 'Community' - Peter Geschiere Epilogue - Richard Werbner

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