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Overcoming Historical Injustices is the last entry in Gibson's 'overcoming trilogy' on South Africa's transformation from apartheid to democracy. Focusing on the issue of historical land dispossessions - the taking of African land under colonialism and apartheid - this book investigates the judgements South Africans make about the fairness of their country's past. Should, for instance, land seized under apartheid be returned today to its rightful owner? Gibson's research zeroes in on group identities and attachments as the thread that connects people to the past. Even when individuals have experienced no direct harm in the past, they care about the fairness of the treatment of their group to the extent that they identify with that group. Gibson's analysis shows that land issues in contemporary South Africa are salient, volatile, and enshrouded in symbols and, most important, that interracial differences in understandings of the past and preferences for the future are profound.

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Book category Books in English Society & social sciences Politics & government Political structure & processes

• Full title: Overcoming Historical Injustices
• Subtitle: Land Reconciliation in South Africa
• Author: James L. Gibson
• Language: English
• Binding: Hardback
• Number of pages: 328
• EAN: 9780521517881
• ISBN: 0521517885
• ID: 02033262
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Weight: 600 g
• Dimensions: 235 × 160 × 27 mm
• Date of publishing: 20. July 2009

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