Politics of Truth and Reconciliation in South Africa
Legitimizing the Post-Apartheid State
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 Johannesburg. 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 pro…
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- ISBN: 978-0-511-66876-0
- EAN: 9780511668760
- Produktnummer: 13859397
- Verlag: Cambridge University Press
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2001
- Seitenangabe: 0 S.
- Plattform: PDF
- Masse: 1'241 KB
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