The Impossible Machine: A Genealogy of South Africa s Truth and Reconciliation Commission - Hardcover

Sitze, Adam

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0472118757 ISBN 13: 9780472118755

Verlag: The University of Michigan Press, 2013

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"This meticulously documented work with nearly 100 pages of footnotes traces the legal and philosophical roots of South Africa's groundbreaking Truth and Reconciliation Commission. Sitze (law, jurisprudence, and social thought, Amherst College) brings to light the extent to which the commission must be seen as drawing upon past legal precedent within both the context of South Africa and the broader jurisprudence of Europe."--Choice-- (04/04/2014) "This meticulously documented work . . . traces the legal and philosophical roots of South Africa's groundbreaking Truth and Reconciliation Commission. Sitze brings to light the extent to which the commission must be seen as drawing upon past legal precedent within both the context of South Africa and the broader jurisprudence of Europe." --Christopher W. Herrick, Muhlenberg College, in Choice "[Sitze] makes an invaluable contribution to our understanding of the origins and historical location of the South African TRC and poses important questions to both scholars of transitional justice as well as scholars and practitioners of South African law and legal history." --Heinz Klug, University of Wisconsin Law School "Beautifully written and engaging to read . . . the book will be a significant contribution to the corpus of political, legal, and philosophical work on transitional justice and postcolonial justice more generally, will have a wide audience and is likely to reshape the field of transitional and postcolonial justice studies." --Fiona Ross, University of Cape Town

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Adam Sitze meticulously traces the origins of South Africa's Truth and Reconciliation Commission to two well-established instruments of colonial and imperial governance: the jurisprudence of indemnity and the commission of inquiry. The TRC's genius, he contends, is its innovative adaptation of colonial law, sovereignty, and government. However, if the TRC's origins are forgotten, the very enterprise intended to overturn the jurisprudence of colonial rule may perpetuate it. Sitze proposes a provocative new means by which South Africa's Truth and Reconciliation Commission should be understood and evaluated.

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• Verlag: The University of Michigan Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2013
• ISBN 10: 0472118757
• ISBN 13: 9780472118755
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Anzahl der Seiten: 392