Judith Scheele

Special attention is paid to the Berberist movement of 2001.

Knowledge, Politics & Community in Kabylia, Algeria

Village Matters

Fernanda Pirie

That law is, or should be, related to justice generally goes without saying; that communities are the basis for (or objects of) laws is also easily assumed; and notable theories of justice explicitly or implicitly elide the two. In this volume historians and anthropologists use empirical examples to unpick conceptual knots formed by law, justice, and community, asking how these relations appear in practice, and how fundamental they are.

Community and Justice

Legalism

Julien Brachet

Based on long-term research in northern Chad, this book provides a unique account of mobility, wealth, and aspirations to political autonomy at the heart of the contemporary Sahara.

Autonomy, Prosperity, and Plunder in the Chadian Sahara

The Value of Disorder

This book describes life on the contemporary border between Algeria and Mali, exploring current developments in a broad historical and socioeconomic context.

Judith Scheele

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