ISBN:
0521001943
,
0521802199
Language:
English
Pages:
XXI, 271 S.
Edition:
1. publ.
Series Statement:
Cambridge studies in law and society
DDC:
305.8/00968
Keywords:
Afrique du Sud - Truth and Reconciliation Commission
;
South Africa.
;
Südafrika
;
Geschichte 1995-1998
;
Apartheid - Afrique du Sud
;
Mensenrechten
;
Réconciliation - Aspect politique - Afrique du Sud
;
Rétribution (Théologie)
;
Truth and Reconciliation Commission
;
Verzoening
;
Menschenrecht
;
Politik
;
Apartheid
;
Post-apartheid era
;
Reconciliation Political aspects
;
Retribution
;
Legitimation
;
Afrique du Sud - Politique et gouvernement - 1994-1999
;
Afrique du Sud - Relations raciales
;
Südafrika (Staat)
;
South Africa Politics and government 1994-
;
South Africa Race relations
;
Südafrika Truth and Reconciliation Commission
;
Legitimation
;
Geschichte 1995-1998
Abstract:
"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."--BOOK JACKET.
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