John Torpey

Making Whole What Has Been Smashed

On Reparations Politics

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Explores the spread of political efforts to rectify injustices handed down from the past. Although it recognises that campaigns for reparations may lead to an improvement in the well-being of victims of mistreatment and to reconciliation among former antagonists, this book examines the extent to which the concern with the past represents a departure from the future-oriented stance of progressive politics.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Rutgers University Press
• Revised edition
• Seitenzahl: 232
• Erscheinungstermin: 21. September 2017
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 233mm x 156mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 341g
• ISBN-13: 9780813592237
• ISBN-10: 0813592232
• Artikelnr.: 49038879

Autorenporträt

JOHN TORPEY is Presidential Professor of Sociology and History at the Graduate Center, City University of New York, and director of the Ralph Bunche Institute for International Studies at the Graduate Center. He is the author or coauthor of eight books, including The Three Axial Ages: Moral, Material, Mental (Rutgers University Press).

Inhaltsangabe

Preface to the Paperback Edition
Acknowledgments
Introduction
1 The Surfacing of Subterranean History
2 An Anatomy of Reparations Politics 
3 Commemoration, Redress, and Reconciliation: The Cases of
Japanese-Americans and Japanese-Canadians
4 Forty Acres: The Case of Reparations for Black Americans 
5 Post-Colonial Reparations: Reparations Politics in Post-Apartheid Namibia
and South Africa 
Conclusion 
Notes
Index