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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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Основен автор: Wilson, Richard, 1964-
Формат: Електронна книга
Език: English
Публикувано: Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2001.
Серия: Cambridge studies in law and society.
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Онлайн достъп: http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=312733
Подобни документи: Print version:: Politics of truth and reconciliation in South Africa.
Резюме: "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.
Физически характеристики: 1 online resource (xxi, 271 pages) : illustrations, maps.
Библиография: Includes bibliographical references (pages 246-262) and index.
ISBN: 9780511674860
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