256 Pages
by
Routledge
256 Pages
by
Routledge
256 Pages
by
Routledge
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This collection of essays by an international group of authors explores the ways in which law and legal institutions are used in countries coming to terms with traumatic pasts and, in some cases, traumatic presents. In putting to question what is often taken for granted in uncritical calls for reconciliation, it critically analyses and frequently challenges the political and legal assumptions... Read more
List of Contributors, Introduction, 1 The Time of Reconciliation and the Space of Politics, 2 Reconciliation and Reconstitution, 3 The Risk of Reconciliation, 4 Reconciliation as Domination, 5 ‘Spatialising History’ and Opening Time: Resisting the Reproduction of the Proper Subject, 6 Reconciliation: Where is the Law?, 7 Transnational Law and Societal Memory, 8 Sacrum, Profanum and Social Time: Quasi-theological Reflections on Time and Reconciliation, 9 Reconciliation as Therapy and Compensation: A Critical Analysis, 10 Feminism and the Ethics of Reconciliation, 11 Constitution as Archive, 12 The Time of Address, Index
Biography
Dr Scott Veitch is Reader in Law at the University of Glasgow, UK.
'...asks a number of intellectually interesting questions and, in addressing them, raises intriguing questions for further research.' Law and Politics Review '...an outstanding book, indispensable to anyone concerned with its themes...this is a work that, in depth as well as in breadth, will repay with considerable interest the time spent reading it.' Social and Legal Studies
