The penitent state : exposure, mourning and the biopolitics of national healing /

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Author / Creator:	Muldoon, Paul, author.
Imprint:	New York, NY : Oxford University Press, 2023.
Description:	1 online resource.
Language:	English
Series:	Oxford scholarship online Oxford scholarship online.
Subject:	State, The -- Moral and ethical aspects. Repentance -- Political aspects. Restorative justice -- Political aspects. Reparations for historical injustices. Collective memory -- Political aspects.
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/13504028

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ISBN:	9780191869501 No price
Notes:	Also issued in print: 2023. Includes bibliographical references and index. Description based on online resource and publisher information; title from PDF title page (viewed on September 13, 2023).
Summary:	This text asks a deceptively simple question: what are states actually doing when they do penance for past injustices? Why are these penitential gestures - especially the gesture of apology - becoming so ubiquitous and what implications do they carry for the way power is exercised?
Target Audience:	Specialized.
Other form:	Print version : 9780198831624
Standard no.:	10.1093/oso/9780198831624.001.0001

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