The politics of truth and reconciliation in South Africa : legitimizing the post-apartheid state
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The politics of truth and reconciliation in South Africa : legitimizing the post-apartheid state
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- The politics of truth and reconciliation in South Africa : legitimizing the post-apartheid state
- Title remainder
- legitimizing the post-apartheid state
- Statement of responsibility
- Richard A. Wilson
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- "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
- Cataloging source
- N$T
- Illustrations
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- illustrations
- maps
- Index
- index present
- LC call number
- DT1974.2
- LC item number
- .W55 2001eb
- Literary form
- non fiction
- Nature of contents
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- dictionaries
- bibliography
- Series statement
- Cambridge studies in law and society
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