The politics of truth and reconciliation in South Africa : legitimizing the post-apartheid state /
"The South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) was set up to deal with the human rights violations of apartheid during the years 1960-1994. However, as Wilson shows, the TRC's restorative justice approach to healing the nation did not always serve the needs of communities at...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Cambridge ; New York :
Cambridge University Press,
2001.
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| Series: | Cambridge studies in law and society.
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| Online Access: | CONNECT |
| Summary: | "The South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) was set up to deal with the human rights violations of apartheid during the years 1960-1994. However, as Wilson shows, the TRC's restorative justice approach to healing the nation did not always serve the needs of communities at a local level. Based on extended anthropological fieldwork, this book illustrates the impact of the TRC in urban African communities in the Johannesburg area. While a religious constituency largely embraced the Commission's religious-redemptive language of reconciliation, Wilson argues that the TRC had little effect on popular ideas of justice as retribution. This provocative study deepens our understanding of post-apartheid South Africa and the use of human rights discourse. It ends on a call for more cautious and realistic expectations about what human rights institutions can achieve in democratizing countries."--Jacket. |
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| Item Description: | EBSCO eBook Academic Comprehensive Collection North America |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xxi, 271 pages) : illustrations, maps |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 246-262) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780511674860 0511674864 9780511671616 051167161X 0511670338 9780511670336 9780511522291 0511522290 1107122988 9781107122987 1282486519 9781282486515 9786612486517 6612486511 0511673671 9780511673672 0511672888 9780511672880 |
