This book makes a valuable contribution to recent debates on redress for historical injustices, offering a broad array of case studies from nine different countries on five continents. Its essays highlight the diversity of claims and movements and of the ways in which societies have tried to right past wrongs.
This book makes a valuable contribution to recent debates on redress for historical injustices, offering a broad array of case studies from nine different countries on five continents. Its essays highlight the diversity of claims and movements and of the ways in which societies have tried to right past wrongs.
Part I. The Politics of Restitution: 1. An avalanche of history: the 'collapse of the future' and the rise of reparations politics John Torpey; 2. Reparations, gender, and ethnicity: why, when and how democratic governments get involved Angelika von Wahl; Part II. Reparations and Restitution: 3. Historical continuity and counterfactual history in the debate over reparations for slavery Manfred Berg; 4. Disputed victims: the German discourse on restitution for Nazi victims Constantin Goschler; 5. Greenlanders displaced by the Cold War: relocation and compensation Svend Aage Christensen and Kristian Soby Kristensen; Part III. Memory and Recognition: 6. Apologizing for Vichy in contemporary France Julie Fette; 7. Limited rehabilitation? Historical observations on the legal rehabilitation of foreign citizens in today's Russia Andreas Hilger; 8. Politics, diplomacy, and accountability in Cambodia: severely limiting personal jurisdiction in prosecution of perpetrators of crimes against humanity Steve Heder; Part IV. Reconciliation: 9. Settling histories, unsettling pasts: reconciliation and historical justice in a settler society Bain Attwood; 10. Fitting Aotearoa into New Zealand: politico-cultural change in a modern bicultural nation Richard Hill and Brigitte Boenisch-Brednich; 11. The politics of judging the past: South Africa's Truth and Reconciliation Commission Bronwyn Leebaw; Part V. Conclusion: 12. 'The issue that won't go away' James McAdams.
Part I. The Politics of Restitution: 1. An avalanche of history: the 'collapse of the future' and the rise of reparations politics John Torpey; 2. Reparations, gender, and ethnicity: why, when and how democratic governments get involved Angelika von Wahl; Part II. Reparations and Restitution: 3. Historical continuity and counterfactual history in the debate over reparations for slavery Manfred Berg; 4. Disputed victims: the German discourse on restitution for Nazi victims Constantin Goschler; 5. Greenlanders displaced by the Cold War: relocation and compensation Svend Aage Christensen and Kristian Soby Kristensen; Part III. Memory and Recognition: 6. Apologizing for Vichy in contemporary France Julie Fette; 7. Limited rehabilitation? Historical observations on the legal rehabilitation of foreign citizens in today's Russia Andreas Hilger; 8. Politics, diplomacy, and accountability in Cambodia: severely limiting personal jurisdiction in prosecution of perpetrators of crimes against humanity Steve Heder; Part IV. Reconciliation: 9. Settling histories, unsettling pasts: reconciliation and historical justice in a settler society Bain Attwood; 10. Fitting Aotearoa into New Zealand: politico-cultural change in a modern bicultural nation Richard Hill and Brigitte Boenisch-Brednich; 11. The politics of judging the past: South Africa's Truth and Reconciliation Commission Bronwyn Leebaw; Part V. Conclusion: 12. 'The issue that won't go away' James McAdams.
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