Competing norms: state regulations and local praxis in sub-Saharan Africa
In: Normative orders volume 19
"Explores what state regulations mean to people in sub-Saharan Africa in the light of already existing local norms with which new regulations compete. The contributions to this volume discuss the competing local, state, and international norms in a diachronic perspective and unfold the intricate ambivalences and contradictions that often characterize these regulations."--Page [4] of cover