Description: Further DetailsTitle: Bodies of TruthCondition: NewSubtitle: Law, Memory, and Emancipation in Post-Apartheid South AfricaISBN-10: 0804799784EAN: 9780804799782ISBN: 9780804799782Publisher: Stanford University PressFormat: PaperbackRelease Date: 10/12/2016Description: Bodies of Truth offers an intimate account of how apartheid victims deal with the long-term effects of violence, focusing on the intertwined themes of embodiment, injury, victimhood, and memory. In 2002, victims of apartheid-era violence filed suit against multinational corporations, accusing them of aiding and abetting the security forces of the apartheid regime. While the litigation made its way through the U.S. courts, thousands of victims of gross human rights violations have had to cope with painful memories of violence. They have also confronted an official discourse claiming that the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of the 1990s sufficiently addressed past injuries. This book shows victims' attempts to emancipate from their experiences by participating in legal actions, but also by creating new forms of sociality among themselves and in relation to broader South African society. Rita Kesselring's ethnography draws on long-term research with members of the victim support group Khulumani and critical analysis of legal proceedings related to apartheid-era injury. Using juridical intervention as an entry point into the question of subjectivity, Kesselring asks how victimhood is experienced in the everyday for the women and men living on the periphery of Cape Town and in other parts of the country. She argues that the everyday practices of the survivors must be taken up by the state and broader society to allow for inclusive social change in a post-conflict setting.Language: EnglishCountry/Region of Manufacture: USItem Height: 229mmItem Length: 152mmAuthor: Rita KesselringGenre: Law & PoliticsBook Series: Stanford Studies in Human RightsTopic: Society & Culture, Social SciencesRelease Year: 2016 Missing Information?Please contact us if any details are missing and where possible we will add the information to our listing.
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Book Title: Bodies of Truth
Title: Bodies of Truth
Subtitle: Law, Memory, and Emancipation in Post-Apartheid South Africa
ISBN-10: 0804799784
EAN: 9780804799782
ISBN: 9780804799782
Release Date: 10/12/2016
Release Year: 2016
Country/Region of Manufacture: US
Genre: Law & Politics
Topic: Social Sciences
Number of Pages: 272 Pages
Publication Name: Bodies of Truth : Law, Memory, and Emancipation in Post-Apartheid South Africa
Language: English
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Item Height: 0.7 in
Publication Year: 2016
Subject: Terrorism, Human Rights, General, Anthropology / Cultural & Social, Cognitive Psychology & Cognition, World / African, Courts
Item Weight: 15.2 Oz
Type: Textbook
Item Length: 8.9 in
Subject Area: Law, Political Science, Social Science, Psychology
Author: Rita Kesselring
Series: Stanford Studies in Human Rights Ser.
Item Width: 6 in
Format: Trade Paperback
