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9780521001946

The Politics of Truth and Reconciliation in South Africa: Legitimizing the Post-Apartheid State

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  • ISBN13:

    9780521001946

  • ISBN10:

    0521001943

  • Format: Paperback
  • Copyright: 2001-05-07
  • Publisher: Cambridge University Press

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Summary

The South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) was set up to deal with the human rights violations of apartheid. However, the TRC's restorative justice approach 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. It 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.

Table of Contents

Preface
1 Human rights and nation building
2 Technologies of the 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 loyalties
6 Vengeance, revenge and retribution
7 Reconciliation with a vengeance
8 Conclusions: human rights

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