Gender and Constitution-making in Kenya
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: John Idriss Lahai
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2017-07-12
Total Pages: 284
ISBN-13: 3319542028
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis volume counters one-sided dominant discursive representations of gender in human rights and transitional justice, and women’s place in the transformations of neoliberal human rights, and contributes a more balanced examination of how transitional justice and human rights institutions, and political institutions impact the lives and experiences of women. Using a multidisciplinary approach, the contributors to this volume theorize and historicize the place of women’s rights (and gender), situating it within contemporary country-specific political, legal, socio-cultural and global contexts. Chapters examine the progress and challenges facing women (and women’s groups) in transitioning countries: from Peru to Argentina, from Kenya to Sierra Leone, and from Bosnia to Sri Lanka, in a variety of contexts, attending especially to the relationships between local and global forces
Author: Aili Mari Tripp
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2008-11-17
Total Pages: 280
ISBN-13: 9780521879309
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWomen burst onto the political scene in Africa after the 1990s, claiming more than one third of the parliamentary seats in countries like Angola, Mozambique, South Africa, Tanzania, Uganda, and Burundi. Women in Rwanda hold the highest percentage of legislative seats in the world. Women's movements lobbied for constitutional reforms and new legislation to expand women's rights. This book examines the convergence of factors behind these dramatic developments, including the emergence of autonomous women's movements, changes in international and regional norms regarding women's rights and representation, the availability of new resources to advance women's status, and the end of civil conflict. The book focuses on the cases of Cameroon, Uganda, and Mozambique, situating these countries in the broader African context. The authors provide a fascinating analysis of the way in which women are transforming the political landscape in Africa, by bringing to bear their unique perspectives as scholars who have also been parliamentarians, transnational activists, and leaders in these movements.
Author: Rosalind Dixon
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2018-04-19
Total Pages: 471
ISBN-13: 1108415334
DOWNLOAD EBOOKEvaluates the successes and failures of the 1996 South African Constitution following the twentieth anniversary of its enactment.
Author: Kivutha Kibwana
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Published: 1996
Total Pages: 246
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Leonhard Praeg
Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2022-06-08
Total Pages: 368
ISBN-13: 900445795X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAs academic subject African philosophy is predominantly concerned with epistemology. It aims at re-presenting a lost body of authentic African thought. This apparently austere a-historical concern is framed by a grand narrative of liberation that cannot but politicise the quest for epistemological autonomy. By “politicise” I mean that the desire to re-cover an authentic African epistemology in order to establish African philosophy as autonomous subject, ironically re-iterates Western, enlightenment notions of the autonomous subject. Here, in the pursuit of an autonomous subject the terms of historical oppression are necessarily duplicated in the terms of liberation. In this study I use the term disfigurement to refer to the double-bind - peculiar to post-coloniality - in which the African subject finds itself when it has to establish and affirm a sense of apartheid (in order to confirm the assumption of difference) by inventing its own autonomy in a way that ironically conflicts with an African conception of the autonomous subject. The transcendental concern with epistemological authenticity and autonomy - indicative of an oppressive desire for Western style autonomy - necessary as it may be in a post-colonial context, is placed in an ethical framework that seeks to remain faithful to the African dictum of identity and autonomy “I am because we are”. Whereas the first three chapters are concerned with the transcendental question ‘what is African philosophy?’, the fourth and last chapter situates the ethical framework within which this question arises in the context of the recently “completed” South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission.
Author: Susan H. Williams
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2009-07-31
Total Pages: 383
ISBN-13: 1139481266
DOWNLOAD EBOOKConstituting Equality addresses the question, how would you write a constitution if you really cared about gender equality? The book takes a design-oriented approach to the broad range of issues that arise in constitutional drafting concerning gender equality. Each section of the book examines a particular set of constitutional issues or doctrines across a range of different countries to explore what works, where, and why. Topics include: governmental structure (particularly electoral gender quotas); rights provisions; constitutional recognition of cultural or religious practices that discriminate against women; domestic incorporation of international law; and the role of women in the process of constitution making. Interdisciplinary in orientation and global in scope, the book provides a menu for constitutional designers and others interested in how the fundamental legal order might more effectively promote gender equality.
Author: Nanjala Nyabola
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Published: 2018
Total Pages: 208
ISBN-13: 9789966028815
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Godwin R. Murunga
Publisher: Zed Books Ltd.
Published: 2014-12-11
Total Pages: 234
ISBN-13: 1780323689
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe aftermath of recent Kenyan elections has been marred by violence and an apparent crisis in democratic governance, with the negotiated settlement resulting from the 2007 election bringing into sharp focus longstanding problems of state and society. The broader reform process has involved electoral, judicial and security-sector reforms, among others, which in turn revolve around constitutional reforms. Written by a gathering of eminent specialists, this highly original volume interrogates the roots and impact of the 2010 constitution. It explains why reforms were blocked in the past but were successful this time around, and explores the scope for their implementation in the face of continued resistance by powerful groups. In doing so, the book demonstrates that the Kenyan experience carries significance well past its borders, speaking to debates surrounding social justice and national cohesion across the African continent and beyond.
Author: Beverley Baines
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2012-04-16
Total Pages: 495
ISBN-13: 0521761573
DOWNLOAD EBOOKExplores the relationship between constitutional law and feminism, offering a spectrum of approaches and analysis set across a wide range of topics.