The Penitent State - Muldoon, Paul
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This book asks a deceptively simple question: what are states actually doing when they do penance for past injustices? Why are these penitential gestures - especially the gesture of apology - becoming so ubiquitous and what implications do they carry for the way power is exercised?

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This book asks a deceptively simple question: what are states actually doing when they do penance for past injustices? Why are these penitential gestures - especially the gesture of apology - becoming so ubiquitous and what implications do they carry for the way power is exercised?
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Paul Muldoon teaches political theory in the School of Social Sciences at Monash University. His research focuses on the way societies come to terms with their past with a special interest in rituals of political transformation and public mourning in modern and ancient societies. He has published widely on questions of historical injustice, reconciliation, sovereignty, political apology, and the politics of the emotions in journals such as the European Journal of Social Theory, International Political Science Review, Political Psychology, Critical Review of International Political Philosophy and Social and Legal Studies.