Making Whole What Has Been Smashed - On Reparations Politics (Paperback, Revised, with a new preface by the author)

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.

General

Imprint:	Rutgers University Press
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	September 2017
Authors:	John Torpey
Dimensions:	235 x 156 x 10mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	232
Edition:	Revised, with a new preface by the author
ISBN-13:	978-0-8135-9223-7
Categories:	Books > Humanities > History > History of specific subjects > General Books > Social sciences > Politics & government > International relations > General Books > History > History of specific subjects > General
LSN:	0-8135-9223-2
Barcode:	9780813592237

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