NUMBER 42 / 1998 / CONTENTS

SPECIAL ISSUE:

URBAN NORMATIVE FIELDS IN AFRICA TODAY/

CHAMPS NORMATIFS URBAINS EN AFRIQUE

CONTEMPORAINE

        Guest Editors: Marie-Claire Foblets and Filip Reyntjens

About the contributors | text |

Part I. INTRODUCTION

Urban Normative Fields in Africa Today
Champs normatifs urbains en afrique contemporaine. [Pages 1-8]
       Marie-Claire Foblets and Filip Reyntjens

       | article (pdf) | article (htm) |

Le droit urbain de Kinshasa.  [Pages 9-20]

       Johan Pauwels | article (pdf) | article (htm) |

Part II. URBAN NORMATIVE FIELDS:

CONCEPTS, THEORIES AND CRITIQUES

Ideological Combat and Social Observation:

Recent Debate about Legal Pluralism. [Pages 21-59]

       Gordon R. Woodman | article (pdf) | article (htm) |

Legal Pluralism and Cultural Difference: What is the Difference?

A Response to Professor Woodman.  [Pages 61-72]

       Carol J. Greenhouse | article (pdf) | article (htm) | 

Constitutionalism, Pluralism and Democracy in Africa.

[Pages 73-88]

       Sammy Adelman | article (pdf) | article (htm) | 

Democracy and the State-Society Paradigm:

Reflections on S. Adelman's Paper.  [Pages 89-94]

       Filip De Boeck | article (pdf) | article (htm) |

Against Legal Pluralism:

Some Reflections on the Contemporary Enlargement of the Legal

Domain.  [Pages 95-106]

       Simon Roberts | article (pdf) | article (htm) | 

Part III. CASE STUDIES

The ‘Proposition':

Maintenance in the Twilight in Urban Zimbabwe.  [Pages 107-122]

       Andrew Ladley | article (pdf) | article (htm) |

Legal Pluralism in Botswana:

Women's Access to Law.  [Pages 123-138]

       Anne Griffiths | article (pdf) | article (htm) |

The Waziri and the Thief: Hausa Islamic Law in a Yoruba City.

A Case Study from Ibadan, Nigeria.  [Pages 139-156]

       Frank A. Salamone | article (pdf) | article (htm) |

La jurisprudence nigérienne en droit de la famille et l'émergence

de la notion de ‘coutume urbaine.  [Pages 157-170]

       Abdourahaman Chaïbou | article (pdf) | article (htm) |

The Supreme Court of Niger and Polynormativism in Urban Centres:

A Comment on Abdourahaman Chaïbou.  [Pages 171-177]

       Jan Michiel Otto | article (pdf) | article (htm) |

La justice expéditive à Nairobi:

informalité ou formalité juridique?  [Pages 179-198]

       Deyssi Rodriguez-Torres | article (pdf) | article (htm) |

Le juge et le jeu de la normalisation islamique du droit positif.

[Pages 199-220]

       Baudouin Dupret | article (pdf) | article (htm) |

Colonial State Building in The Congo, and its Dismantling.

[Pages 221-244]

       René Devisch | article (pdf) | article (htm) |

Part IV. A PERSONAL SUMMARY AND DISCUSSION

Villes africaines et pluralisme juridique. [Pages 245-274]

       Jacques Vanderlinden | article (pdf) | article (htm) |

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