The politics of official apologies /

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Author / Creator:Nobles, Melissa.
Imprint:New York : Cambridge University Press, 2008.
Description:1 online resource (xiii, 200 pages)
Language:English
Subject:Civil rights -- North America -- History.
Civil rights -- Australia -- History.
Civil rights -- New Zealand -- History.
Reconciliation -- Political aspects -- North America.
Reconciliation -- Political aspects -- Australia.
Reconciliation -- Political aspects -- New Zealand.
Apologizing.
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Political Freedom & Security -- Civil Rights.
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Political Freedom & Security -- Human Rights.
Apologizing.
Civil rights.
Reconciliation -- Political aspects.
Australia.
New Zealand.
North America.
Electronic books.
History.
Format: E-Resource Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11813488
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ISBN:9780511378928
0511378920
0511378033
9780511378034
0521872316
0521693853
9780521872317
9780521693851
Notes:Includes bibliographical references (pages 167-187) and index.
Print version record.
Summary:"Intense interest in past injustice lies at the center of contemporary world politics. Most scholarly and public attention has focused on truth commissions, trials, lustration, and other related decisions, following political transitions. This book examines the political uses of official apologies in Australia, Canada, New Zealand, and the United States. It explores why minority groups demand such apologies and why governments do or do not offer them. Melissa Nobles argues that apologies can help to alter the terms and meanings of national membership. Minority groups demand apologies in order to focus attention on historical injustices, the rectification of which, they argue, should guide changes in present-day government policies. Similarly, state actors support apologies for ideological and moral reasons, driven by their support of group rights, responsiveness to group demands, and belief that acknowledgment is due. Apologies, as employed by political actors, play an important, if underappreciated, role in bringing certain views about history and moral obligation to bear in public life."--Jacket.
Other form:Print version: Nobles, Melissa. Politics of official apologies. New York : Cambridge University Press, 2008 9780521872317 0521872316