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Another Country - Everyday Social Restitution (Paperback)
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Another Country - Everyday Social Restitution (Paperback)
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Loot Price R308
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In Another Country: Everyday Social Restitution, author Sharlene
Swartz introduces the concept of `social restitution’ -
understood as the actions and attitudes that everyday people can
undertake in dialogue with each other to `make things good’ since
`making things right’ is impossible. In setting out an
understanding of and an agenda for social restitution, she offers
four ideas based on engaged reflection with sixty ordinary South
Africans of all ages, colours and classes. First, injustice damages
all our humanity and continues over time, and must be understood
before we can simply move forward. Second, that a broad
understanding of restitution is a helpful tool to bring about
change, and that we need new language beyond the labels of victim
and perpetrator to talk about our role in the past (such as
beneficiary, resister, ostrich, architect or implementer). Third,
that restitution should aim at restoring dignity, opportunity,
belonging and memory, and so should include not only symbolic but
also practical and financial acts. Fourth, that there is something
for everyone to do – individuals and communities, alongside
government and institutional efforts, and the best way to decide on
what action should be taken is to decide together, in dialogue,
across previous divides. This book offers stories, ideas and strong
theories for how South Africa can be Another Country in our
lifetime.
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