The politics of truth and reconciliation in South Africa : legitimizing the post-apartheid state / Richard A. Wilson.

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Wilson, Richard, 1964-

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TextSeries: Cambridge studies in law and societyPublication details: Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2001.Description: 1 online resource (xxi, 271 pages) : illustrations, mapsContent type:

text

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computer

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online resource

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9780511674860
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9780511670336
9780511522291
0511522290
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9781107122987
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Additional physical formats: Print version:: Politics of truth and reconciliation in South Africa.DDC classification:

305.8/00968 22

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DT1974.2 .W55 2001eb

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Contents:

1. Human rights and nation-building -- 2. Technologies of truth : the TRC's truth-making machine -- 3. The politics of truth and human rights -- 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.

Review: "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.

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Includes bibliographical references (pages 246-262) and index.

"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.