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The politics of truth and reconciliation in South Africa : = legitimizing the post-apartheid state /

紀錄類型:	書目-語言資料,印刷品 : Monograph/item
正題名/作者:	The politics of truth and reconciliation in South Africa :/ Richard A. Wilson.
其他題名:	legitimizing the post-apartheid state /
其他題名:	The Politics of Truth & Reconciliation in South Africa
作者:	Wilson, Richard,
面頁冊數:	1 online resource (xxi, 271 pages) :digital, PDF file(s). :
附註:	Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).
標題:	Retribution. -
標題:	South Africa - Politics and government - 1994- -
電子資源:	https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511522291
ISBN:	9780511522291 (ebook)

The politics of truth and reconciliation in South Africa : = legitimizing the post-apartheid state /
Wilson, Richard,1964-

The politics of truth and reconciliation in South Africa :legitimizing the post-apartheid state /The Politics of Truth & Reconciliation in South AfricaRichard A. Wilson. - 1 online resource (xxi, 271 pages) :digital, PDF file(s). - Cambridge studies in law and society. - Cambridge studies in law and society..

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).

Human rights and nation-building --1.

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.

ISBN: 9780511522291 (ebook)Subjects--Corporate Names:

962178
South Africa.
Truth and Reconciliation Commission.Subjects--Topical Terms:

575467
Retribution.
Subjects--Geographical Terms:

798951
South Africa
--Politics and government--1994-

LC Class. No.: DT1974.2 / .W55 2001

Dewey Class. No.: 305.8/00968

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