Making Whole What Has Been Smashed

Informationen zum Autor John Torpey is Professor of Sociology at the Graduate Center, City University of New York. Klappentext This book explores the recent spread of political efforts to rectify past injustices. Although it recognizes that reparations campaigns may lead to improved well-being of victims and to reconciliation among former antagonists! it examines the extent to which concern with the past may depart from the future orientation of progressive politics. Zusammenfassung This book explores the recent spread of political efforts to rectify past injustices. Although it recognizes that reparations campaigns may lead to improved well-being of victims and to reconciliation among former antagonists! it examines the extent to which concern with the past may depart from the future orientation of progressive politics.

Produktdetails

• Autoren: John Torpey, John C. Torpey, Torpey John
• Verlag: Harvard University Press
• Sprache: Englisch
• Produktform: Fester Einband
• Erschienen: 03.02.2006
• EAN: 9780674019430
• ISBN: 978-0-674-01943-0
• Seiten: 224
• Abmessung: 160 mm x 240 mm x 15 mm
• Themen: Sozialwissenschaften, Recht,Wirtschaft > Politikwissenschaft > Politische Wissenschaft und Politische Bildung; POLITICAL SCIENCE / Civics & Citizenship, Civil rights & citizenship, Civics and citizenship