Politics and the past : on repairing historical injustices / edited by John Torpey.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Torpey, John, 1959-

Series:

World social change

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Reparations for historical injustices.

Intergenerational relations.

Ethnic relations.

Restorative justice.

Physical Description:

ix, 316 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.

Place of Publication:

Lanham, Md. : Rowman & Littlefield, [2003]

Summary:

Offering a nuanced, historically grounded, and critical perspective, this book presents a multidisciplinary exploration of the growing public controversy over reparations for historical injustices.

Contents:

1. Introduction: Politics and the past / J. Torpey

2. The politics of regret: analytical frames / J. Olick and B. Coughlin

3. Coming to terms with the past / A. Cairns

4. Restitution and amending historical injustices in international morality / E. Barkan

5. Reflections on reparations / R. Brooks

6. Calculating slavery reparations: theory, numbers and implications / D. Conley

7. War compensation: claims against the Japanese government and Japanese corporations for war crimes / L. Hein

8. Negotiating new relationships: Canadian museums, first nations, and cultural property / R. Phillips and E. Johnson

9. Is truth enough? Reparations and reconciliation in Latin America / S. Lean

10. Moral integrity and reparations for Africa / R. Howard-Hassmann

11. Wealth of nations: aboriginal treaty-making in the era of globalization / R.S. Ratner, W.K. Carroll and A. Woolford

12. Victims of genocide, crimes against humanity, and war crimes in Rwanda: the legal and institutional framework of their right to reparation / S. Vandeginste

13. Justice, history and memory in France: reflections on the Papon trial / H. Rousso

14. Overcoming the past? Narrative and negotiation, remembering and reparation: issues at the interface of history and the law / C. Maier.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0742517985

0742517993

OCLC:

50511432