Judging State-Sponsored Violence, Imagining Political Change.

By: Leebaw, BronwynMaterial type: TextTextPublisher: New York : Cambridge University Press, 2011Copyright date: ©2011Description: 1 online resource (224 pages)Content type: text Media type: computer Carrier type: online resourceISBN: 9781139080408Subject(s): Crimes against humanity | International police | Intervention (International law) | Political violence | Transitional justice | Truth commissions -- South Africa -- History | War crime trials -- Germany -- NurembergGenre/Form: Electronic books.Additional physical formats: Print version:: Judging State-Sponsored Violence, Imagining Political ChangeDDC classification: 340.115 LOC classification: KZ6374 .L44 2011Online resources: Click to View
Contents:
Cover -- Half-title -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- 1 Introduction: Transitional Justice and the "Gray Zone" -- A great legalistic act -- A different kind of justice -- Remembering victims and perpetrators, forgetting politics -- Recovering political judgment -- Plan of the book -- 2 Human Rights Legalism and the Legacy of Nuremberg -- The creative legalism of nuremberg -- Amnesty international and human rights legalism in the cold war era -- Argentina's transition and the "duty to prosecute" -- Reconciling with the law -- Conclusion -- 3 A Different Kind of Justice: South Africa's Alternative to Legalism -- The case for political judgment -- Healing past wounds -- Psychological Healing -- Physical Healing -- Redemptive Healing -- A "nation of victims" -- A Humanitarian Ethic -- A "Human Rights Violation Syndrome" -- An Internal Critique -- Conclusion -- 4 Political Judgment and Transitional Justice: Actors and Spectators -- Depoliticization and despair -- The actor and the spectator -- Imagination and reflection -- The oresteia as a drama of transitional justice -- Conclusion -- 5 Rethinking Restorative Justice -- Restore what? -- Beyond therapy -- Ubuntu, Ritual, and Gesture -- Democratic Dialogue -- Critical Acknowledgment and Historical Reflection -- Conclusion -- 6 Remembering Resistance -- The failure to resist -- Political resistance -- Privileged resistance -- Conclusion -- 7 Conclusion: The Shadows of the Past -- The work of political judgment -- Confronting the limits of legalism -- Evaluating restorative alternatives -- Truth commissions and the politics of memory -- Select Bibliography -- Index.
Summary: Offers a new way to think about the legacies of two institutions - the Nuremberg Trials and South Africa's Truth and Reconciliation Commission.
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Cover -- Half-title -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- 1 Introduction: Transitional Justice and the "Gray Zone" -- A great legalistic act -- A different kind of justice -- Remembering victims and perpetrators, forgetting politics -- Recovering political judgment -- Plan of the book -- 2 Human Rights Legalism and the Legacy of Nuremberg -- The creative legalism of nuremberg -- Amnesty international and human rights legalism in the cold war era -- Argentina's transition and the "duty to prosecute" -- Reconciling with the law -- Conclusion -- 3 A Different Kind of Justice: South Africa's Alternative to Legalism -- The case for political judgment -- Healing past wounds -- Psychological Healing -- Physical Healing -- Redemptive Healing -- A "nation of victims" -- A Humanitarian Ethic -- A "Human Rights Violation Syndrome" -- An Internal Critique -- Conclusion -- 4 Political Judgment and Transitional Justice: Actors and Spectators -- Depoliticization and despair -- The actor and the spectator -- Imagination and reflection -- The oresteia as a drama of transitional justice -- Conclusion -- 5 Rethinking Restorative Justice -- Restore what? -- Beyond therapy -- Ubuntu, Ritual, and Gesture -- Democratic Dialogue -- Critical Acknowledgment and Historical Reflection -- Conclusion -- 6 Remembering Resistance -- The failure to resist -- Political resistance -- Privileged resistance -- Conclusion -- 7 Conclusion: The Shadows of the Past -- The work of political judgment -- Confronting the limits of legalism -- Evaluating restorative alternatives -- Truth commissions and the politics of memory -- Select Bibliography -- Index.

Offers a new way to think about the legacies of two institutions - the Nuremberg Trials and South Africa's Truth and Reconciliation Commission.

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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2018. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.

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