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THE POLITICS OF TRUTH AND RECONCILIATION IN SOUTH AFRICA
LEGITIMIZING THE POST-APARTHEID STATE |
| By: |
Richard Ashby Wilson |
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Hardback |
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| ISBN 10: |
0521802199 |
| ISBN 13: |
9780521802192 |
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| Publisher: |
CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS |
| Pub. date: |
2 May, 2001 |
| Series: |
Cambridge Studies in Law and Society |
| Pages: |
296 |
| Description: |
This book shows the impact of the TRC in urban African communities in Johannesburg. |
| Synopsis: |
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. |
| Illustrations: |
3 maps |
| Publication: |
UK |
| Imprint: |
Cambridge University Press |
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