Unsettling Apologies : : Critical Writings on Apology from South Africa /

Unsettling Apologies : : Critical Writings on Apology from South Africa / / ed. by Melanie Judge, Dee Smythe.

There has recently been a global resurgence of demands for the acknowledgement of historical and contemporary wrongs, as well as for apologies and reparation for harms suffered. Drawing on the histories of injustice, dispossession and violence in South Africa, this book examines the cultural, politi...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Bristol UP/Policy Press Complete eBook-Package 2022
MitwirkendeR:
Ally, Nurina,
Barnard-Naudé, Jaco,
Davies, Tracey,
Hassim, Shireen,
Jefthas, Diane,
Jonas, Siphokazi,
Judge, Melanie,
Khan, Leila,
Kiguwa, Peace,
Klug, Heinz,
Kolawole, Omowamiwa,
Mnisi Weeks, Sindiso,
Nkomo, Nkululeko,
Smythe, Dee,
Sooka, Yasmin,
Thipe, Thuto,
Williams, Kerry,
van der Westhuizen, Christi,
HerausgeberIn:
Judge, Melanie,
Smythe, Dee,
Place / Publishing House:Bristol : : Bristol University Press, , [2022]
©2022
Year of Publication:2022
Language:English
Series:Law, Society, Policy
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Physical Description:1 online resource (330 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Front Matter
  • Contents
  • Series Editor’s Preface
  • Notes on Contributors
  • Acknowledgements
  • The Power of Apology
  • We Speak in the Shadow of the Tongues They Took
  • Can an Apology Ever Be Enough for Crimes of the Past?
  • In Pursuit of Harmony: What Is the Value of a Court-Ordered Apology?
  • Penance and Punishment: Apology as a Remedy for Hate Speech
  • On Not Apologising: Winnie Madikizela-Mandela and the TRC Hearing into the Mandela United Football Club
  • (Mis)Recognitions in the Racial Apology: Reading the Racist Event and its Fallouts
  • Apology as a Pathway Out of White Unknowing
  • (Re)Collections: Her Sorry, Never Mine
  • Beyond Words: Apologies and Compensation in Sexual Offences
  • ‘She Told Me to Stop Making a Fuss’: Undignified Treatment, Medical Negligence Claims, and Desires for Apology
  • Unicorn Sightings: The Corporate Moral Apology in South Africa
  • In Black and White: The Hollow Apology of Racialised State Compensation to Freehold Landowners
  • On Apology and the Failure of Shame in the TRC
  • Amnesty, Amnesia, and Remembrance: Self-Reflections on a 23-Year-Old Justification
  • Index

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