The politics of truth and reconciliation in South Africa : legitimizing the post-apartheid state

• Main Author: Wilson, Richard, 1964-
• Format: eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2001.
• Series: Cambridge studies in law and society.
• Subjects: South Africa. > Truth and Reconciliation Commission; Since 1994; Reconciliation > Political aspects > South Africa.; Apartheid > South Africa.; Post-apartheid era > South Africa.; Retribution.; Reward (Theology); Punishment.; South Africa > Politics and government > 1994-; South Africa > Race relations.; South Africa; elektronické knihy; electronic books
• ISBN: 9780511674860; 9780511671616; 9780511670336; 9780511522291; 9781107122987; 9781282486515; 9786612486517; 9780511673672; 9780511672880; 9780521802192; 9780521001946
• Physical Description: 1 online zdroj (xxi, 271 stran) : ilustrace, mapy.
• Access: Plný text je dostupný pouze z IP adres počítačů Univerzity Tomáše Bati ve Zlíně nebo vzdáleným přístupem pro zaměstnance a studenty

"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 the Johannesburg area. 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."--Jacket.