ISBN:
0-521-00194-3
,
978-0-521-00194-6
,
0-521-80219-9
,
978-0-521-80219-2
Language:
German
Pages:
XXI, 271 Seiten
Edition:
fourth printing
Series Statement:
Cambridge Studies in Law and Society
Keywords:
Südafrika Apartheid
;
Menschenrecht
;
Entschädigung
;
Institution, politische
;
Beziehungen, interethnische
;
Rassismus
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 Johannesburg. 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.
Description / Table of Contents:
Preface 1. Human rights and nation building 2. Technologies of the truth: the TRC's truth-making machine 3. The politics of truth and human rights 4. Reconciliation through truth? 5. Reconciliation in society: religious values and procedural loyalties 6. Vengeance, revenge and retribution 7. Reconciliation with a vengeance 8. Conclusions: human rights.
Note:
Literaturverzeichnis: Seite 246 - 262
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