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Lawfare and the Ovaherero and Nama Pursuit of Restorative Justice, 1918–2018 (Hardcover)
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Lawfare and the Ovaherero and Nama Pursuit of Restorative Justice, 1918–2018 (Hardcover)
Series: The Fairleigh Dickinson University Press Series in Law, Culture, and the Humanities
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This book provides readers with a critical analysis of the
restorative justice efforts of the Ovaherero and Nama communities
in Namibia, who contend that they should receive reparations for
what happened to their ancestors during, and after the 1904–1908
German-Ovaherero/Nama war. Arguing that indigenous communities who
once lived in a German colony called “German South West Africa”
suffered from a genocide that could be compared to the World War II
Holocaust Namibian activists sued Germany and German corporations
in U.S. federal courts for reparations. The author of this book
uses a critical genealogical approach to all of this “lawfare”
(the politicizing of the law) in order to illustrate some of the
historical origins of this quest for social justice. Portions of
the book also explain some of the historical and contemporary
realpolitik barriers that stood in the way of Ovaherero and Nama
activists who were asking for acknowledgments of the “Namibian
genocide,” apologies from German officials, repatriation of human
remains from colonial times as well as restitution that might help
with land redistribution in today’s Namibia. This book shows many
of the difficulties that confront those indigenous communities who
ask twenty-first century audiences to pay restitution for
large-scale colonial massacres or imperial genocides that might
have taken place more than a hundred years ago.
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