ABSTRACT

The book highlights new imaginaries required to transcend traditional approaches to law and development. The authors focus on injustices and harms to people and the environment, and confront global injustices involving impoverishment, patriarchy, forced migration, global pandemics and intellectual rights in traditional medicine resulting from maldevelopment, bad governance and aftermaths of colonialism. New imaginaries emphasise deconstruction of fashionable myths of law, development, human rights, governance and post-coloniality to focus on communal and feminist relationality, non-western legal systems, personal responsibility for justice and forms of resistance to injustices.

The book will be of interest to students and scholars of development, law and development, feminism, international law, environmental law, governance, politics, international relations, social justice and activism.

chapter |16 pages

Introduction

part I|122 pages

Towards New Imaginaries

chapter 4|19 pages

The Constitution of Turbulence

Zavaleta, Linera and Constituent Power in Bolivia

chapter 5|18 pages

‘I Built this House on my Back’

A Historical Perspective on Care and Property in East Africa

chapter 6|22 pages

Resisting Apathy and Antipathy for Community in Human-Rights and Development Discourse

Locality, Human Interdependence and Participation

part II|139 pages

Rights and Injustices

chapter 9|21 pages

The human right to water and beyond

Some reflections on water justice and water reform in Zimbabwe

chapter 10|25 pages

Access to justice for refugees

chapter 11|17 pages

Islamic Law, Social Justice and Injustices

The Case for Islamic Welfare Systems

chapter 13|21 pages

‘In My Own Village’

Chronotopes, Governmentality and the Changing Regulation of Traditional Medicine in Kenya