Research Catalog

Title

The age of apology : facing up to the past / edited by Mark Gibney ... [et al.].

Publication

Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, c2008.

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Details

Additional Authors

Gibney, Mark.

Description

vii, 333 p.; 24 cm.

Series Statement

Pennsylvania studies in human rights

Subject

• Apologies
• Apologizing > Political aspects
• Truth commissions
• Civilization, Western > Historiography
• Reparations for historical injustices

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

• Introduction: apologies and the west / Rhoda E. Howard-Hassmann and Mark Gibney. Part I: Law, ethics, and the theory behind apologies. The role of apology in international law / Richard B. Bilder -- Apology, justice, and respect: a critical defense of political apology / Janna Thompson -- Historical injustice and liberal political theory / Michael Freeman -- Apologies: a cross-cultural analysis / Alison Dundes Renteln -- Elements of a road map for a politics of apology / Jean-Marc Coicaud and Jibecke Jönsson.
• Part II: Internal apologies by states. When sorry is enough: the possibility of a national apology for slavery / Eleanor Bright Fleming -- The university and the slaves: apology and its meaning / Alfred L. Brophy -- The role of apologies in national reconciliation processes: on making trustworthy institutions trusted / Pablo de Greiff -- Wrestling with the past: apologies, quasi-apologies, and non-apologies in Canada / Matt James -- Apology and reconciliation in New Zealand's Treaty of Waitangi settlement process / Meredith Gibbs.
• Part III: International apologies of states. State apolgies under U.S. hegemony / Carlos A. Parodi -- "Deliver us from original sin": Belgian apologies to Rwanda and the Congo / Paul Kerstens -- Germany faces colonial history in Namibia: a very ambiguous "I am sorry" / Leonard Jamfa -- Words require action: African elite opinion about apologies from the "West" / Rhoda E. Howard-Hassmann and Anthony P. Lombardo -- Colonialism, slavery, and the slave trade: a Dutch perspective / Peter Baehr -- Is Japan facing its past? The case of Japan and its neighbors / Elizabeth S. Dahl.
• Part IV: Apologies by non-state actors. Papal apologies of Pope John Paul II / Michael R. Marrus -- Rethinking corporate apologies: business and apartheid victimization in South Africa.
• Part V: The war on terror. Apology and the American "War on Terror" / Mark Gibney and Niklaus Steiner -- The fourth estate and the case for war in Iraq: apology or apologia? / Johathan Marks.

Call Number

JFE 08-1153

ISBN

• 9780812240337
• 0812240332

OCLC

180254858

Title

The age of apology : facing up to the past / edited by Mark Gibney ... [et al.].

Imprint

Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, c2008.

Series

Pennsylvania studies in human rights

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Added Author

Gibney, Mark.

Research Call Number

JFE 08-1153