UID:
kobvindex_HPB1224361059
Format:
1 online resource (378 pages)
ISBN:
9783748906674
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3748906676
Series Statement:
Studien zur Politischen Soziologie ; v. 39
Note:
5.3 What is the position of the Law in Relation to Witchcraft-based Physical Violence and Torture?
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Cover -- Abstract -- Introduction -- Objectives, Research Questions and Significance -- Structure and Organisation -- Chapter One: Human Rights in Practice: Beyond Existing Theories -- 1.1 Introduction -- 1.2 Naturalists-Rationalists-Idealists Conceptions -- 1.2.1 Rationalism and Colonial Conception and Regulation of Witchcraft -- 1.2.2 Critiquing Traditional Theorising -- 1.2.2.1 Asian Values' Debate -- 1.3 An-Na'im's Cross-Cultural Approach: Another Theoretical Puzzle? -- 1.4 Political-Practical Theoretical Solution? -- 1.4.1 Charles Beitz and the Political-Practical Theoretical Turn
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1.4.2 Beitz's Approach: A Recipe for States' Coercion and Citizens' Exclusion? -- 1.5 New Directions: Towards a Micro-Level Approach to Human Rights -- 1.6 Complimentarity of the Micro-Level and Political-Practical Approaches -- 1.6.1 Liberal Theory of Compliance -- 1.7 Conclusions -- Chapter Two: Ghana's Human Rights and Ghana's Alleged Witches' Camps -- 2.1 Introduction -- 2.2 Human Rights in Ghana: A Snapshot -- 2.2.1 Human Rights in Precolonial Africa -- 2.3 Witchcraft as a Contested Concept: Overview of Witchcraft Beliefs and Practices -- 2.3.1 Basic Traditional Explanations and Standpoints
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2.3.2 Witchcraft in Contemporary Africa: A Reflection of Unfulfilled and Unfinished Mission of Modernisation? -- 2.3.3 Bridging the Definational Differences and Contestations -- 2.4 Northern Ghana's Alleged Witches' Camps -- 2.4.1 Problematisng Practices in the Camps in an Era of Human Rights -- 2.4.2 Watchdog Role of the Media -- Chapter Three: The Beginning, the End: Navigating the Lifeworld of Research Participants -- 3.1 Introduction -- 3.2 How it all started: Research Interests -- 3.3 Grounded Theorectical Approach -- 3.4 Research Setting -- 3.5 Data Gathering and Collection Process
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3.5.1 Data Collection -- 3.5.2 Data Collection Tools -- 3.6 Data Analysis -- 3.6.1 Initial Coding -- 3.6.2 Focused Coding and the Development of Categories -- 3.6.2.1 Axial Coding -- 3.7 Ethics: Reflexivity, Positionality and Integrity -- 3.8 Conclusions -- Chapter Four: Women's Rights as Human Rights and Witchcraft -- 4.1 introduction -- 4.2 Feminisation of Witchcraft as Discrimination and Unequal Treatment of Women -- 4.2.1 Discrimination and Unequal Treatment of Women and Patriarchy -- 4.2.1.1 Patriarchy as Indirect Discrimination and Unequal Treatment of Women
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4.2.1.2 Patriarchy as Direct Discrimination and Unequal Treatment of Women -- 4.3.2 Discrimination and Unequal Treatment Centred on Widowhood and Disinheritance -- 4.4 Old Age a Regretful Transition, Ageism -- 4.5 Conclusions -- Chapter Five: Human Rights and Witchcraft-Related Physical Abuse, Destruction and Deprivation of Property -- 5.1 Introduction -- 5.2 Physical Torture, Violence and Abuse as Resentment and Revenge Actions -- 5.2.1 Youth as Assailants Driven by Fear of Death and Joblessness -- 5.2.2 Effects of Physical Torture as Reflection of Painful and Indelible Past
Additional Edition:
Print version: Musah, Baba Iddrisu. Ambivalence of Culture in Ghana's Alleged Witches' Camps : A Micro-Level Approach to Human Rights. Baden-Baden : Nomos Verlagsgesellschaft, ©2020 ISBN 9783848765904
Language:
English
URL:
ProQuest Ebook Central
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