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The Impossible Machine : A Genealogy of South Africa's Truth and Reconciliation Commission /
This book traces the origins of South Africa's Truth and Reconciliation Commission back to two well-established instruments of colonial and imperial governance: the jurisprudence of indemnity and the commission of inquiry. This genealogy provides a fresh, though counterintuitive, understanding...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | Inglés |
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Ann Arbor :
The University of Michigan Press,
[2013]
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| Series: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Online Access: | Texto completo |
| Summary: | This book traces the origins of South Africa's Truth and Reconciliation Commission back to two well-established instruments of colonial and imperial governance: the jurisprudence of indemnity and the commission of inquiry. This genealogy provides a fresh, though counterintuitive, understanding of the TRC's legal, political, and cultural importance. The TRC's genius, the author contends, is not the substitution of "forgiving" restorative justice for "strict" legal justice but rather the innovative adaptation of colonial law, sovereignty, and government. However, this approach also contains a potential liability: if the TRC's origins are forgotten, the very enterprise intended to overturn the jurisprudence of colonial rule may perpetuate it. In sum, the author proposes a provocative means by which South Africa's Truth and Reconciliation Commission should be understood and evaluated. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (392 pages). |
| ISBN: | 9780472029105 |