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Overcoming historical injustices : land reconciliation in South Africa /
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 inves...
| Call Number: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | Inglés |
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Cambridge ; New York :
Cambridge University Press,
2009.
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| Series: | Cambridge studies in public opinion and political psychology.
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| Online Access: | Texto completo |
| Summary: | 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. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xix, 306 pages) : illustrations |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780511540998 051154099X 0521517885 9780521517881 0511581637 9780511581632 052114440X 9780521144407 1107191521 9781107191525 1282187171 9781282187177 9786612187179 6612187174 0511540655 9780511540653 0511539452 9780511539459 0511538626 9780511538629 0511540299 9780511540295 |