The Impossible Machine : A Genealogy of South Africa's Truth and Reconciliation Commission
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| Title: | The Impossible Machine : A Genealogy of South Africa's Truth and Reconciliation Commission |
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| Description: | Adam Sitze meticulously traces the origins of South Africa's Truth and Reconciliation Commission back to two well-established instruments of colonial and imperial governance: the jurisprudence of indemnity and the commission of inquiry. This genealogy provides a fresh, though counterintuitive, understanding of the TRC's legal, political, and cultural importance. The TRC's genius, Sitze contends, is not the substitution of “forgiving” restorative justice for “strict” legal justice but rather the innovative adaptation of colonial law, sovereignty, and government. However, this approach also contains a potential liability: if the TRC's origins are forgotten, the very enterprise intended to overturn the jurisprudence of colonial rule may perpetuate it. In sum, Sitze proposes a provocative new means by which South Africa's Truth and Reconciliation Commission should be understood and evaluated. |
| Authors: | Adam Sitze |
| Resource Type: | eBook. |
| Subjects: | Apartheid--South Africa, Justice, Administration of--South Africa--History, Rule of law--South Africa--History, Judges--South Africa--History |
| Categories: | HISTORY / General, HISTORY / Africa / South / Republic of South Africa, LAW / Alternative Dispute Resolution, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Human Rights |
| Database: | eBook Collection (EBSCOhost) |
| Abstract: | Adam Sitze meticulously traces the origins of South Africa's Truth and Reconciliation Commission back to two well-established instruments of colonial and imperial governance: the jurisprudence of indemnity and the commission of inquiry. This genealogy provides a fresh, though counterintuitive, understanding of the TRC's legal, political, and cultural importance. The TRC's genius, Sitze contends, is not the substitution of “forgiving” restorative justice for “strict” legal justice but rather the innovative adaptation of colonial law, sovereignty, and government. However, this approach also contains a potential liability: if the TRC's origins are forgotten, the very enterprise intended to overturn the jurisprudence of colonial rule may perpetuate it. In sum, Sitze proposes a provocative new means by which South Africa's Truth and Reconciliation Commission should be understood and evaluated. |
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| ISBN: | 9780472118755 9780472036585 9780472029105 |
