Stichproben 23/2012
Special Issue: Human Rights and Africa. Between Theory and Practice
edited by Martina Ciganikova and Miša Krenčeyová
Articles
Preface “Human Rights and Africa: Between Theory and Practice”
Martina Ciganikova & Miša Krenčeyová
Human Rights and the Rule of Law - Challenges (not only) for South Africa
Henning Melber
Challenging (Neo)liberal Women's Rights and Opening Transformative Spaces in Southern Africa
Judith Van Allen
Refugee Rights in Kenya between Theory and Practice
Eva Freudenthaler
Authors
studied African and Development Studies at the University Vienna. Research stay in Kenya. She is currently studying law with a focus on human rights.
Contact: Eva.Freudenthaler@univie.ac.at
PhD candidate in the Department of Anthropology and Sociology at the University of Amsterdam. His dissertation is interested in looking at how different forms of state craft meet in efforts to integrate TB and HIV services.
Contact: olhuman@gmail.com or O.Human@uva.nl
PhD candidate at the Institute of Social Anthropology, University of Basel, who works at the intersection of legal anthropology and the anthropology of the body. She is particularly interested in the embodiment of experiences and the possibilities for emancipation from painful memories in a post-conflict setting. The frequent turn to legal measures to deal with past abuses poses the question of the justiciability of experienced injuries.
Contact: Rita.Kesselring@unibas.ch
Extraordinary Professor at the Department of Political Sciences/University of Pretoria, where he is affiliated to the Institute for Strategic and Political Studies (ISPA). As Senior Advisor and Director emeritus at The Dag Hammarskjöld Foundation he is based in Uppsala/Sweden.
Contact: Henning.Melber@dhf.uu.se
PhD in political science from the University of California, Berkeley, USA. She is a long-time scholar-activist and is currently a Senior Fellow at the Institute for African Development at Cornell University, Ithaca, NY. She has written on the political economy of African women's activism since 1972.
Contatc: jv43@cornell.edu