dc.contributor.author | Schaap, Andrew | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2013-05-31T13:49:57Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2008-07-09 | |
dc.description.abstract | Against the critique of reconciliation as an irredeemably ideological concept, I want to retrieve the
concept of reconciliation for a popular politics. As a term of political discourse, reconciliation has been objected to
for being: too vague, illiberal, question-begging, assimilative, quietist and exculpatory. Each objection draws
attention to the tendency of every state-sanctioned project of reconciliation to become ideological in the Marxist sense.
In contrast, a politics of reconciliation would: be enabled by the contestability of what ‘real’ reconciliation requires;
refer to human rights in their constitutive political sense; invoke moral community to politicise the terms of political
belonging; acknowledge the risk that the beginning it seeks to enact in the present may not come to pass; be
predicated on a gratitude that a willingness to forgive makes reconciliation available as political opportunity in the
first place, and; conceive collective responsibility in terms of an ongoing responsiveness to the legacy of past wrongs
that might unite the community-to-be-reconciled. | en_GB |
dc.identifier.citation | Vol. 15, Issue 2, pp. 249 - 264 | en_GB |
dc.identifier.doi | 10.1111/j.1467-8675.2008.00488.x | |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10871/9771 | |
dc.language.iso | en | en_GB |
dc.publisher | Wiley Blackwell | en_GB |
dc.relation.url | http://repository.unimelb.edu.au/10187/1697 | en_GB |
dc.relation.url | http://www.wiley.com/bw/journal.asp?ref=1351-0487 | en_GB |
dc.subject | Roconciliation | en_GB |
dc.subject | Ideology | en_GB |
dc.subject | Politics | en_GB |
dc.title | Reconciliation as Ideology and Politics | en_GB |
dc.type | Article | en_GB |
dc.date.available | 2013-05-31T13:49:57Z | |
dc.identifier.issn | 1351-0487 | |
exeter.place-of-publication | United States | |
dc.description | publication-status: Published | en_GB |
dc.description | types: Article | en_GB |
dc.identifier.journal | Constellations: An International Journal of Critical and Democratic Theory | en_GB |