Imagining Justice: The Politics of Postcolonial Forgiveness and Reconciliation

Discourses of forgiveness and reconciliation have emerged as powerful scripts for interracial negotiations in states struggling with the legacies of colonialism. While such discourses can obscure or even perpetuate existing power relations, they can also encourage remembrance, reformulate notions of justice, and ultimately bring about social transformation.

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Imagining Justice: The Politics of Postcolonial Forgiveness and Reconciliation

Discourses of forgiveness and reconciliation have emerged as powerful scripts for interracial negotiations in states struggling with the legacies of colonialism. While such discourses can obscure or even perpetuate existing power relations, they can also encourage remembrance, reformulate notions of justice, and ultimately bring about social transformation.

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Imagining Justice: The Politics of Postcolonial Forgiveness and Reconciliation

Imagining Justice: The Politics of Postcolonial Forgiveness and Reconciliation

by Julie McGonegal
Imagining Justice: The Politics of Postcolonial Forgiveness and Reconciliation

Imagining Justice: The Politics of Postcolonial Forgiveness and Reconciliation

by Julie McGonegal

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Overview

Discourses of forgiveness and reconciliation have emerged as powerful scripts for interracial negotiations in states struggling with the legacies of colonialism. While such discourses can obscure or even perpetuate existing power relations, they can also encourage remembrance, reformulate notions of justice, and ultimately bring about social transformation.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780773534582
Publisher: McGill-Queens University Press
Publication date: 03/01/2009
Edition description: First Edition
Pages: 248
Product dimensions: 6.30(w) x 9.10(h) x 0.90(d)

About the Author

Julie McGonegal is a SSHRC postdoctoral research fellow at the University of Tasmania, Australia.
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