ISBN:
9780511522291
Language:
English
Pages:
1 online resource (xxi, 271 pages)
Series Statement:
Cambridge studies in law and society
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DDC:
305.8/00968
Keywords:
South Africa / Truth and Reconciliation Commission
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Südafrika
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Geschichte 1995-1998
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Politik
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Reconciliation / Political aspects / South Africa
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Apartheid / South Africa
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Post-apartheid era / South Africa
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Retribution
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Legitimation
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Südafrika (Staat)
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South Africa / Politics and government / 1994-
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South Africa / Race relations
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Südafrika Truth and Reconciliation Commission
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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 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
Note:
Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015)
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Human rights and nation-building
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Technologies of truth : the TRC's truth-making machine
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The politics of truth and human rights
,
Reconciliation through truth?
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Reconciliation in society : religious values and procedural pragmatism
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Vengeance, revenge and retribution
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Reconciliation with a vengeance
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Conclusions : human rights, reconciliation and retribution
DOI:
10.1017/CBO9780511522291
URL:
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URL:
https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511522291
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