COVER -- HALF-TITLE -- TITLE -- COPYRIGHT -- CONTENTS -- TABLES AND FIGURES -- CONTRIBUTORS -- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS -- ABBREVIATIONS -- INTRODUCTION -- 1 Reconciliation as surrender: configurations of responsibility and memory -- Introduction -- Responsibility and reconciliation -- 'By design and default ...' -- The limits of negotiability -- Memory and reconciliation -- The time of memory -- Conflicting narratives and collective memory -- Historicising 'normal' excesses -- Conclusion -- 2 Radical forgiveness: Transforming traumatic memory beyond Hannah Arendt -- Introduction -- Hannah Arendt and the unforgivable -- Other philosophical views on forgiving the unforgivable -- The possibility of forgiveness -- Psychoanalytic notions of empathy -- Levinasian encounter with the face of the Other -- Concluding comments -- 3 Communicating criminal and political responsibility in the TRC process -- Introduction -- Responsibility for atrocity: a place to start -- Responsibility-ascription in the TRC process -- The challenge to the TRC model: dissipation and disavowal of responsibility? -- Conclusion: making political responsibility matter -- 4 The contribution of criminal justice -- Introduction -- Mirrored processes -- Reaffirmation of the apartheid legal order? -- No amnesty for leaders? -- Parallel processes -- Investigations and prosecutions in relation to the Security Branch of the South African police -- The Goldstone Commission -- The De Kock trial -- Other investigations and trials involving the Security Branch -- Prosecutions relating to secret operations of the military -- Complementary processes -- Post-TRC prosecutions -- Early reactions of the government -- Guidelines for the prosecution of apartheid crimes -- Prosecutions after the announcement of the new Prosecution Policy -- 5 Reparation and the forms of justice -- Introduction.

The approach to reparations -- Reparations under the TRC Act -- Restitution of land rights -- Reparation and distribution -- Conclusion -- 6 Land restitution and reconciliation in South Africa -- Introduction -- Property theory and the rectification of past unjust transfers -- The constitutional and statutory scheme for land restitution in South Africa -- Problems encountered in the implementation of land restitution -- Conclusion -- 7 For justice and reconciliation to come: the TRC archive, big business and the demand for material reparations -- Introduction -- The TRC'S work on the role of business in apartheid -- The chapter on the role of business and labour in the 1998 Report -- The chapter on reparations and the business sector in the 2003 Report -- Inattention in the archive -- Time is money: haste and the archive -- Evading the archive -- Conspicuous absences -- 'Don't ask us we only worked here': invoking the private to escape the public -- We did not benefit -- Business as usual: the insistence on forgetting -- For the sake of the future -- Re-conceptualising the archive -- Potentialities -- Conclusion: 'because The Future Too, Is Another Country' -- 8 Transition, forgiveness and citizenship: the TRC and the social construction of forgiveness -- Introduction -- The role of forgiveness for the TRC -- Christian forgiveness as the backdrop -- The objective of the TRC Act -- Forgiveness as the link between truth-telling and reconciliation -- The institutionalisation of forgiveness within the TRC -- The 'victim hearings' -- The amnesty hearings -- The 'theme' and 'institutional' hearings -- Self-reflection: the TRC Report -- Conclusion -- 9 The evolving legitimacy of the south african constitutional court -- Introduction -- The South African Constitutional Court And Questions Of Legitimacy -- Theories of institutional legitimacy.

A brief profile of the South African Constitutional Court -- The special meaning of legitimacy in a racially divided society -- Research Design -- Survey data -- The attentive publics for the Court and Parliament -- Loyalty toward the Constitutional Court and Parliament -- Main Survey Results -- Changing attitudes toward the Constitutional Court -- Cross-national comparisons -- Summary -- Racial Differences In Attitudes Toward Parliament And The Constitutional Court -- Connecting specific and diffuse support -- Summary and discussion -- Concluding Comments -- Appendix: the survey methodology -- 10 Drawing the line: justice and the art of reconciliation -- Introduction -- Drawing the line: law and the geometry of address -- Crossing the line: justice and the art of reconciliation -- Redrawing the lines: towards a post-apartheid aesthetic -- Conclusion: lines of force -- 11 Post-conflict justice and the reconciliatory paradigm: the South African experience -- Introduction -- Making apartheid 'past': reconciliation as aspiration -- Reconciliation, civic identity and moral repair -- Reconciliation as commitment -- Conclusion -- Index.

An assessment of the transitional processes aimed at creating a stable and just society in South Africa.

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