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Unsettling apologies : critical writings on apology from South Africa /
Drawing on the histories of injustice, dispossession and violence in South Africa, this book examines the cultural, political and legal role and value of an apology.
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Otros Autores: | , |
| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Bristol :
Bristol University Press,
2022.
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| Colección: | Law, Society, Policy Ser.
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| Temas: | |
| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Front Cover
- Series
- Unsettling Apologies: Critical Writings on Apology from South Africa
- Copyright information
- About William Kentridge's Black Box/Chambre Noire
- Table of contents
- Series Editor's Preface
- Notes on Contributors
- Acknowledgements
- 1 The Power of Apology
- Apologies everywhere ... and nowhere
- Enacting apologies
- With truth
- Alongside justice
- Engaging power
- Apology unsettled
- (No) place for sorry
- References
- 2 We Speak in the Shadow of the Tongues They Took
- Death
- Chimera
- Can you Caliban?
- Mambhele's harvest
- Mourning
- Of dreams and mielie meal
- We do not 'get over'
- Making bread
- Big shoes
- The unveiling
- Mending
- 3 Can an Apology Ever Be Enough for Crimes of the Past?
- Introduction
- Apologies and transitional justice
- Apologies by heads of state
- Apologies before international criminal courts, tribunals, and regional bodies
- Apologies in the South African context
- The discourse on apologies in South Africa
- References
- 4 In Pursuit of Harmony: What Is the Value of a Court-Ordered Apology?
- Introduction
- Apology and harmony: in theory
- Can dignity be found in a coerced apology?
- Deconstructing colonial logics of harmony ideology
- Conclusion: Apology and harmony in the Traditional Courts Bill
- References
- 5 Penance and Punishment: Apology as a Remedy for Hate Speech
- Introduction
- Apology as an effective remedy under the Equality Act
- The effectiveness of compelled insincere apologies
- The role of apology in two hate speech cases
- Refusing to apologise: compelling Jon Qwelane's apology as an effective remedy
- Agreeing to apologise: The Chinese Association (TCA) case and apology as a restorative justice process
- Conclusion: The effectiveness of apology
- References
- 6 On Not Apologising: Winnie Madikizela-Mandela and the TRC Hearing into the Mandela United Football Club
- Introduction
- The affective and reconciliatory work of political apologies
- Background to the TRC hearing
- Interrogating violence: the Mandela United Football Club hearing
- Conclusion
- References
- 7 (Mis)Recognitions in the Racial Apology: Reading the Racist Event and its Fallouts
- Introduction
- Reconfiguring the racially affective event
- Pain and injury in/as outrage
- The (im)potency of racial apologies
- References
- 8 Apology as a Pathway Out of White Unknowing
- Whiteness: an epistemology of ignorance
- Eugene de Kock: the truth of (not) knowing
- Leon Wessels: the 'ought to have known' apology
- Antjie Krog: apology as a release from whiteness
- Conclusion
- References
- 9 (Re)Collections: Her Sorry, Never Mine
- 10 Beyond Words: Apologies and Compensation in Sexual Offences
- Introduction
- 'Justice' for sexual offences within the current legal framework