The Politics of Truth and Reconciliation in South Africa: Legitimizing the Post-Apartheid State

ISBN-13: 9780521001946 / Angielski / Miękka / 2001 / 296 str.

Rich Wilson; Richard Wilson; Chris Arup

Opis

The South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) was set up to deal with the human rights violations of apartheid. However, the TRC's restorative justice approach 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. It 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.

Recenzje

'Wilson's study makes a strong and convincing argument.' Journal of Southern African Studies

Spis treści

List of acronyms and glossary; Maps; Preface and acknowledgements; 1. Human rights and nation-building; Part I. Human Rights and Truth: 2. Technologies of truth: the TRC's truth-making machine; 3. The politics of truth and human rights; Part II. Reconciliation; Retribution and Revenge: 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; Notes; Bibliography; Index.