Author : James L. Gibson
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 329 pages
File Size : 47,18 MB
Release : 2009-07-20
Category : History
ISBN : 0521517885
This book investigates the judgements South Africans make about the fairness of their country's past, focusing on historical land dispossessions.
Author : James L. Gibson
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 309 pages
File Size : 32,50 MB
Release : 2009-07-20
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1139477641
Overcoming Historical Injustices is the last entry in Gibson's 'overcoming trilogy' on South Africa's transformation from apartheid to democracy. Focusing on the issue of historical land dispossessions - the taking of African land under colonialism and apartheid - this book investigates the judgements South Africans make about the fairness of their country's past. Should, for instance, land seized under apartheid be returned today to its rightful owner? Gibson's research zeroes in on group identities and attachments as the thread that connects people to the past. Even when individuals have experienced no direct harm in the past, they care about the fairness of the treatment of their group to the extent that they identify with that group. Gibson's analysis shows that land issues in contemporary South Africa are salient, volatile, and enshrouded in symbols and, most important, that interracial differences in understandings of the past and preferences for the future are profound.
Author : Jeff Spinner-Halev
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 247 pages
File Size : 34,93 MB
Release : 2012-04-19
Category : Law
ISBN : 1107017513
Argues that understanding the impact of past injustices faced by some peoples can help us understand and overcome injustice today.
Author : Alasia Nuti
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 40,97 MB
Release : 2019-03-28
Category : Law
ISBN : 1108419941
Develops a new account of historical injustice and redress, demonstrating why a consideration of history is crucial for gender equality.
Author : John Torpey
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 15,60 MB
Release : 2003
Category : History
ISBN : 9780742517998
Offering a nuanced, historically grounded, and critical perspective, this book presents a multidisciplinary exploration of the growing public controversy over reparations for historical injustices.
Author : Nahshon Perez
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 186 pages
File Size : 49,55 MB
Release : 2012-07-18
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0748649646
Should contemporary citizens provide material redress to right past wrongs? There is a widespread belief that contemporary citizens should take responsibility for rectifying past wrongs. Nahshon Perez challenges this view, questioning attempts to aggregate dead wrongdoers with living people, and examining ideas of intergenerational collective responsibility with great suspicion. He distinguishes sharply between those who are indeed unjustly enriched by past wrongs, and those who are not. Looking at issues such as the distinction between compensation and restitution, counterfactuals and the non-identity problem, Perez concludes that individuals have the right to a clean slate, and that almost all of the pro-intergenerational redress arguments are unconvincing. Key Features *Unique in claiming past wrongs should not be rectified *Analyses pro-intergenerational material redress arguments *Case studies include court cases from Australia, Northern Cyprus, the United States and Austria, and political and social movements from the US, Palestine and Arab countries
Author : Robert W. Gordon
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 439 pages
File Size : 23,32 MB
Release : 2017-06-09
Category : History
ISBN : 1107193230
A critical catalogue of how lawyers use history - as authority, as evocation of lost golden ages, as a nightmare to escape and as progress towards enlightenment.
Author : Peter Malcontent
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 28,63 MB
Release : 2016
Category : Collective memory
ISBN : 9781780684031
How do societies at the national and international level try to overcome historical injustices? What remedies did they develop to do justice to victims of large scale atrocities? And, even more important, what have we learned from the implementation of these so-called instruments of transitional justice in practice? Lawyers, socials scientists, and historians have published shelves full of books and articles on how to confront the past through international criminal tribunals, truth commissions, financial compensation schemes, and other instruments of retributive/punitive and restorative justice. A serious problem continues to be that broad interdisciplinary accounts that include both categories of measures are still hardly available. In this volume, a group of international experts in the field endeavors to fill this gap, and more. By alternating historical overviews with critical assessments, this volume does not only offer an extensive introduction to the world of transitional justice, but also food for thought concerning the effectiveness of the remedies it offers to face the past successfully. (Series: Series on Transitional Justice, Vol. 21) Subject: Human Rights Law, Criminal Justice]
Author : John Torpey
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 32,93 MB
Release : 2006
Category : Law
ISBN : 9780674019430
This book explores the recent spread of political efforts to rectify past injustices. Although it recognizes that reparations campaigns may lead to improved well-being of victims and to reconciliation among former antagonists, it examines the extent to which concern with the past may depart from the future orientation of progressive politics.
Author : Gi-Wook Shin
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 283 pages
File Size : 18,33 MB
Release : 2007-01-24
Category : History
ISBN : 1135984786
Korea is a nation that has addressed issues of both internal and external injustices from past wrongs that were committed in times of colonialism, war and dictatorship. Using examples of this injustice, this book focuses on Korea and looks towards reconciliation in the region.
