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Making Whole what Has Been Smashed
John Torpey
其他書名
On Reparations Politics
出版
Harvard University Press
, 2006
主題
Law / Torts
Political Science / General
Political Science / Civil Rights
Political Science / Public Policy / General
Social Science / Ethnic Studies / American / African American & Black Studies
Social Science / Discrimination
Social Science / Race & Ethnic Relations
ISBN
0674019431
9780674019430
URL
http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=lOfjJ9nIKl0C&hl=&source=gbs_api
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This book explores the spread in recent years of political efforts to rectify injustices handed down from the past. Although it recognizes that campaigns for reparations may lead to an improvement in the well-being of victims of mistreatment by states and to reconciliation among former antagonists, it examines the extent to which the concern with the past may represent a departure from the traditionally future-oriented stance of progressive politics. Viewing the search for "coming to terms with the past" as a form of politics, it argues that there are major differences between reparations for the living victims of past wrongdoing and reparations for the descendants of such victims. More fundamentally, it argues that claims for reparations comprise a relatively novel kind of politics that involves a quest for symbolic recognition and material compensation for those seeking them--through the idiom of the past rather than the present. The prominent role of lawyers in such politics speaks to a larger trend toward the "juridification of politics" that often has problematic consequences for these campaigns. Concerns to right the wrongs of the past, the book concludes, may distract from the fight to overcome contemporary injustices.