The Impossible Machine : A Genealogy of South Africa's Truth and Reconciliation Commission /

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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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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Sitze, Adam (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Ann Arbor : The University of Michigan Press, [2013]
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
South Africa. > Truth and Reconciliation Commission.
Truth and reconciliation commissions.
Amnesty.
Transitional justice.
Apartheid.
South Africa.
Rule of law.
Justice, Administration of.
Judges.
LAW > Alternative Dispute Resolution.
HISTORY > Africa > South > Republic of South Africa.
HISTORY > Africa > South > General.
Apartheid > Afrique du Sud.
Regle de droit > Afrique du Sud > Histoire.
Apartheid > South Africa.
Judges > South Africa > History.
Rule of law > South Africa > History.
Justice, Administration of > South Africa > History.
History.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • Indemnity and amnesty
  • Indemnity and sovereignty
  • Indemnity in crisis
  • Indemnity in the TRC
  • What is a commission?
  • The rise and fall of the tumult commission
  • A tumult commission of a special type?
  • Out of commission : Salus or Ubuntu?
  • Epilogue : Toward a critique of transitional justice.

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