TY  - BOOK
AU  - Wilson,Richard
TI  - The politics of truth and reconciliation in South Africa: legitimizing the post-apartheid state 
T2  - Cambridge studies in law and society
SN  - 0521802199
AV  - DT1974.2 .W66
PY  - 2001///
CY  - Cambridge, New York
PB  - Cambridge University Press
KW  - South Africa
KW  - Truth and Reconciliation Commission
KW  - Reconciliation
KW  - Political aspects
KW  - Apartheid
KW  - Post-apartheid era
KW  - Retribution
KW  - Reward (Theology)
KW  - Punishment
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (pages 246-262) and index; 1; Human rights and nation-building --; 2; Technologies of truth : the TRC's truth-making machine --; 3; The politics of truth and human rights --; 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
N2  - "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
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