This book 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, it 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, it 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, it 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. The
prominent role of lawyers in such politics speaks to a larger trend
toward the "juridification of politics" that often has problematic
consequences for these campaigns. Concerns to right the wrongs of
the past, the book concludes, may distract from the fight to
overcome contemporary injustices.
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