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

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

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Author / Creator:	Wilson, Richard, 1964-
Imprint:	Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2001.
Description:	1 online resource (xxi, 271 pages) : illustrations, maps
Language:	English
Series:	Cambridge studies in law and society Cambridge studies in law and society.
Subject:	South Africa. -- Truth and Reconciliation Commission. South Africa. -- Truth and Reconciliation Commission. Reconciliation -- Political aspects -- South Africa. Apartheid -- South Africa. Post-apartheid era -- South Africa. Retribution. Apartheid. Politics and government Post-apartheid era. Race relations. Reconciliation -- Political aspects. Retribution. South Africa -- Politics and government -- 1994- South Africa -- Race relations. South Africa. Electronic books.
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11206679

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ISBN:	9780511674860 0511674864 9780511671616 051167161X 0511670338 9780511670336 9780511522291 0511522290 0521802199 0521001943 9780521802192 9780521001946 1107122988 9781107122987 1282486519 9781282486515 9786612486517 6612486511 0511673671 9780511673672 0511672888 9780511672880
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references (pages 246-262) and index. English. Print version record.
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.
Other form:	Print version: Wilson, Richard, 1964- Politics of truth and reconciliation in South Africa. Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2001 9780521802192

Table of 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.