THE POLITICS OF TRUTH AND RECONCILIATION IN SOUTH AFRICA by Richard Ashby Wilson, Chris Arup, Martin Chanock ( 9780521001946 )

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THE POLITICS OF TRUTH AND RECONCILIATION IN SOUTH AFRICA
LEGITIMIZING THE POST-APARTHEID STATE

By:

Richard Ashby Wilson, Chris Arup, Martin Chanock

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0521001943

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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.

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