TY  - BOOK
AU  - Gibson,James L.
TI  - Overcoming historical injustices: land reconciliation in South Africa 
T2  - Cambridge studies in public opinion and political psychology
SN  - 9780511540998
AV  - KTL3056 .G53 2009eb
U1  - 346.6804/32 22
PY  - 2009///
CY  - Cambridge, New York
PB  - Cambridge University Press
KW  - Land reform
KW  - Law and legislation
KW  - South Africa
KW  - Land tenure
KW  - Reparations for historical injustices
KW  - Réparations des crimes de l'histoire
KW  - Afrique du Sud
KW  - LAW
KW  - Administrative Law & Regulatory Practice
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - fast
KW  - Electronic books
KW  - gtlm
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; Land reconciliation and theories of justice, past and present -- Naming, blaming, and claiming on historical land injustices : the views of the South African people -- Group identities and land policy preferences -- Applied justice judgments: the problem of squatting -- Judging the past : historical versus contemporary claims to land -- Land reconciliation and theories of justice
N2  - Overcoming Historical Injustices is the last entry in Gibson's 'overcoming trilogy' on South Africa's transformation from apartheid to democracy. Focusing on the issue of historical land dispossessions - the taking of African land under colonialism and apartheid - this book investigates the judgements South Africans make about the fairness of their country's past. Should, for instance, land seized under apartheid be returned today to its rightful owner? Gibson's research zeroes in on group identities and attachments as the thread that connects people to the past. Even when individuals have experienced no direct harm in the past, they care about the fairness of the treatment of their group to the extent that they identify with that group. Gibson's analysis shows that land issues in contemporary South Africa are salient, volatile, and enshrouded in symbols and, most important, that interracial differences in understandings of the past and preferences for the future are profound
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