Bodies of truth : law, memory, and emancipation in post-apartheid South Africa /
Kesselring, Rita,
Bodies of truth : law, memory, and emancipation in post-apartheid South Africa / Rita Kesselring. - Stanford, California : Stanford University Press, 2016. - xii, 256 pages Illustrations (photographs) 23 cm - Stanford studies in human rights . - Stanford studies in human rights. .
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Apartheid victimhood before the courts -- Reparation, representation, and class actions -- Embodied memory and the social -- The formation of the political -- Emancipation from victimhood -- Ethnographic experience and anthropological knowledge -- Conclusion : the embodiment of experiences of violence as seeds of new forms of sociality.
South Africa. Truth and Reconciliation Commission.
South Africa. Truth and Reconciliation Commission.
Since 1994
Victims of state-sponsored terrorism--South Africa.
Post-apartheid era--South Africa.
Human rights--South Africa.
Collective memory--South Africa.
Transitional justice--South Africa.
Collective memory.
Human rights.
Politics and government.
Post-apartheid era.
Transitional justice.
Victims of state-sponsored terrorism.
South Africa--Politics and government--1994-
South Africa.
Electronic books.
JC599 / .K47 2017
Bodies of truth : law, memory, and emancipation in post-apartheid South Africa / Rita Kesselring. - Stanford, California : Stanford University Press, 2016. - xii, 256 pages Illustrations (photographs) 23 cm - Stanford studies in human rights . - Stanford studies in human rights. .
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Apartheid victimhood before the courts -- Reparation, representation, and class actions -- Embodied memory and the social -- The formation of the political -- Emancipation from victimhood -- Ethnographic experience and anthropological knowledge -- Conclusion : the embodiment of experiences of violence as seeds of new forms of sociality.
South Africa. Truth and Reconciliation Commission.
South Africa. Truth and Reconciliation Commission.
Since 1994
Victims of state-sponsored terrorism--South Africa.
Post-apartheid era--South Africa.
Human rights--South Africa.
Collective memory--South Africa.
Transitional justice--South Africa.
Collective memory.
Human rights.
Politics and government.
Post-apartheid era.
Transitional justice.
Victims of state-sponsored terrorism.
South Africa--Politics and government--1994-
South Africa.
Electronic books.
JC599 / .K47 2017