Making Whole What Has Been Smashed : On Reparations Politics

John Torpey

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Language: English

Published by Rutgers University Press Sep 2017, 2017

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Neuware - Making Whole What Has Been Smashed explores the spread in recent years of political efforts to rectify injustices handed down from the past. Although it recognizes that campaigns for reparations may lead to an improvement in the well-being of victims of mistreatment by states and to reconciliation among former antagonists, this timely book, featuring a new and updated preface, examines the extent to which the concern with the past may represent a departure from the traditionally future-oriented stance of progressive politics. Viewing the search for "coming to terms with the past" as a form of politics, John Torpey argues that there are major differences between reparations for the living victims of past wrongdoing and reparations for the descendants of such victims. More fundamentally, he argues that claims for reparations comprise a relatively novel kind of politics that involves a quest for symbolic recognition and material compensation for those seeking them-through the idiom of the past rather than the present. This reissue is the first paperback edition and contains a new preface by the author.…

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Title
Making Whole What Has Been Smashed : On Reparations Politics
Author
John Torpey
Publisher
Rutgers University Press Sep 2017
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2017
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Language
English
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0813592232
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9780813592237
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