UID:
almafu_9959233674902883
Format:
1 online resource (xxi, 271 pages) :
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digital, PDF file(s).
ISBN:
1-107-12298-8
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1-282-48651-9
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9786612486517
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0-511-67367-1
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0-511-67486-4
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0-511-67161-X
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0-511-67033-8
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0-511-52229-0
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0-511-67288-8
Series Statement:
Cambridge studies in law and society
Content:
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 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.
Note:
Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).
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pt. 1. Human rights and truth -- pt. 2. Reconciliation, retribution and revenge.
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English
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0-521-00194-3
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0-521-80219-9
Language:
English
URL:
Volltext
(lizenzpflichtig)
URL:
https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511522291
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