Politics of Truth and Reconciliation in South Africa - Legitimizing the Post-Apartheid State

Informationen zum Autor Both Frank Lloyd Wright and Le Corbusier, along with historical vernacular of similar desert regions, contribute to a thoughtful and sophisticated dwelling design appropriate to the Sonoran Desert region. Klappentext This book shows the impact of the TRC in urban African communities in Johannesburg. Zusammenfassung The TRC was set up to deal with the human rights violations of apartheid. However! its restorative justice approach did not always serve the needs of communities at a local level. Based on detailed fieldwork! this book illustrates the impact of the TRC in urban African communities in Johannesburg. Inhaltsverzeichnis List of acronyms and glossary; Maps; Preface and acknowledgements; 1. Human rights and nation-building; Part I. Human Rights and Truth: 2. Technologies of truth: the TRC's truth-making machine; 3. The politics of truth and human rights; Part II. Reconciliation; Retribution and Revenge: 4. Reconciliation through truth?; 5. Reconciliation in society: religious values and procedural pragmatism; 6. Vengeance, revenge and retribution; 7. Reconciliation with a vengeance; 8. Conclusions: human rights, reconciliation and retribution; Notes; Bibliography; Index.

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• Authors: Richard Wilson, Richard A. Wilson, Richard A. (University of Sussex) Wilson, Richard Ashby Wilson
• Assisted by: Chris Arup (Editor), Martin Chanock (Editor)
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 02.05.2001
• EAN: 9780521802192
• ISBN: 978-0-521-80219-2
• No. of pages: 296
• Series: Cambridge Studies in Law and S
• Subject: Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education