Unsettling Accounts

Neither Truth Nor Reconciliation In Confessions Of State Violence

by Leigh A. Payne
language: english
Publisher: DUKE UNIVERSITY PRESS, January of 2008 ‧
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Asks what happens when perpetrators publicly admit or discuss their actions. This book contends that public confessions do not settle the past. It argues that this debate and the public confessions that trigger it are healthy for democratic processes of political participation, freedom of expression, and contestation of political ideas.

Unsettling Accounts

Neither Truth Nor Reconciliation In Confessions Of State Violence

by Leigh A. Payne

Property Description
ISBN: 9780822340829
Publisher: DUKE UNIVERSITY PRESS
Release Date: January of 2008
Language: English
Cover: Softcover
Pages: 392
Format: Book
Categories: Books in English > Dictionaries and Encyclopedias > Encyclopedias
EAN: 9780822340829