South Sudan's Injustice System: Law and Activism on the Frontline
- Submitting institution
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Goldsmiths' College
- Unit of assessment
- 19 - Politics and International Studies
- Output identifier
- 3022
- Type
- A - Authored book
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- Publisher
- Zed Books
- ISBN
- 9781786993397
- Open access status
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- Month of publication
- August
- Year of publication
- 2019
- URL
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- Supplementary information
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
- No
- COVID-19 affected output statement
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- Forensic science
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- Criminology
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- Interdisciplinary
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- Number of additional authors
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0
- Research group(s)
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- Proposed double-weighted
- Yes
- Double-weighted statement
- This book draws on five-years ethnographic research during South Sudan’s civil war (2014-2019). It examines the everyday practices of courts and legal activists, revealing the political salience of law during violent conflict. It is based on 80 life-history interviews; multi-sited participant observation; and collaborative action research with lawyers and paralegals, including 596 court observation reports gathered in seven towns. The methodology was innovative; the empirical materials and insights are unique. The arguments are of crucial relevance to the study and transformation of conflict in South Sudan, while offering a novel contribution to political sociologies of conflict, law and human rights.
- Reserve for an output with double weighting
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- Additional information
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- Author contribution statement
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- Non-English
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- English abstract
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