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