Politics and the past : on repairing historical injustices /

Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Torpey, John, 1959-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Lanham, Md. : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, [2003]
Series:World social change.
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Table of Contents:
  • 1. Introduction: Politics and the past / J. Torpey
  • 2. The politics of regret: analytical frames / J. Olick and B. Coughlin
  • 3. Coming to terms with the past / A. Cairns
  • 4. Restitution and amending historical injustices in international morality / E. Barkan
  • 5. Reflections on reparations / R. Brooks
  • 6. Calculating slavery reparations: theory, numbers and implications / D. Conley
  • 7. War compensation: claims against the Japanese government and Japanese corporations for war crimes / L. Hein
  • 8. Negotiating new relationships: Canadian museums, first nations, and cultural property / R. Phillips and E. Johnson
  • 9. Is truth enough? Reparations and reconciliation in Latin America / S. Lean
  • 10. Moral integrity and reparations for Africa / R. Howard-Hassmann
  • 11. Wealth of nations: aboriginal treaty-making in the era of globalization / R.S. Ratner, W.K. Carroll and A. Woolford
  • 12. Victims of genocide, crimes against humanity, and war crimes in Rwanda: the legal and institutional framework of their right to reparation / S. Vandeginste
  • 13. Justice, history and memory in France: reflections on the Papon trial / H. Rousso
  • 14. Overcoming the past? Narrative and negotiation, remembering and reparation: issues at the interface of history and the law / C. Maier.