Law and the Politics of Reconciliation

Herausgeber: Veitch, Scott

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This collection of essays by an international group of authors explores the ways in which law and legal institutions are used in countries coming to terms with traumatic pasts, and, in some cases, traumatic presents. Drawing on work in politics, philosophy, theology, sociology and law, this book will appeal to a wide audience of researchers and academics working in these areas.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 256
• Erscheinungstermin: 8. Januar 2007
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 16mm
• Gewicht: 535g
• ISBN-13: 9780754649243
• ISBN-10: 0754649245
• Artikelnr.: 47739403

Autorenporträt

Dr Scott Veitch is Reader in Law at the University of Glasgow, UK.

Inhaltsangabe

List of Contributors
Introduction
1 The Time of Reconciliation and the Space of Politics
2 Reconciliation and Reconstitution
3 The Risk of Reconciliation
4 Reconciliation as Domination
5 'Spatialising History' and Opening Time: Resisting the Reproduction of the Proper Subject
6 Reconciliation: Where is the Law?
7 Transnational Law and Societal Memory
8 Sacrum
Profanum and Social Time: Quasi-theological Reflections on Time and Reconciliation
9 Reconciliation as Therapy and Compensation: A Critical Analysis
10 Feminism and the Ethics of Reconciliation
11 Constitution as Archive
12 The Time of Address
Index