ISBN:
9780511674860
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0511674864
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9780511671616
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051167161X
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0511670338
,
9780511670336
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9780511522291
,
0511522290
Language:
English
Pages:
1 Online-Ressource (xxi, 271 pages)
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Illustrations, maps
Series Statement:
Cambridge studies in law and society
DDC:
305.8/00968
Keywords:
Südafrika
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."--Jacket.
Note:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 246-262) and index
URL:
https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511522291
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