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Overcoming Historical Injustices : Land Reconciliation in South Africa

ISBN: 9780521517881 | 0521517885
Edition: 1st
Format: Hardcover
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Pub. Date: 7/20/2009

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SummaryTable of Contents
This 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 tortured past.

Overcoming Historical Land Injustices in South Africa is the last entry in Gibson's "overcoming trilogy" on South Africa's transformation from apartheid to democracy. Focus... MORE
List of Figuresp. xi
List of Tablesp. xiii
Preface and Acknowledgmentsp. xv
Land Reconciliation and Theories of Justice, Past and Presentp. 1
Commonsense Justicep. 4
Land Issues in South Africap. 11
Justice Considerations Implicatedp. 19
Multiculturalism and the Justice of Land Reconciliationp. 22
Specific Empirical Issues Ad... MOREp. 26
An Overview of the Land Reconciliation Surveyp. 28
A Chapter-by-Chapter Overview of This Bookp. 28
Naming, Blaming, and Claiming on Historical Land Injustices: The Views of the South African Peoplep. 31
The Salience of the Land Issuep. 34
The Sanctity of Private Propertyp. 40
Allocating Blame for Land Injusticesp. 45
The History of Land Injustice in South Africap. 48
The Extent of Land Grievingp. 53
Policy Attitudesp. 63
Support for the Rule of Lawp. 75
Land Activismp. 79
Summary and Conclusionsp. 79
Group Identities and Land Policy Preferencesp. 86
Identities and Group Historyp. 87
Social Identity Theory and Sociotropic Justicep. 90
Measuring Group Identitiesp. 92
Connecting Identities to Land Politicsp. 106
The Larger Symbolic Context of Landp. 110
Social Identities and Land Policy Preferencesp. 120
Discussion and Concluding Commentsp. 125
Appendix to Chapter 3: Measurementp. 128
Applied Justice Judgments: The Problem of Squattingp. 132
The Problem of Squatting and Its Relationship to Commonsense Justicep. 134
The Experiment - The Squatter Vignettep. 137
Fairness Judgments: The Dependent Variablep. 143
Analysisp. 144
Group Identities and Perceptions of Fairnessp. 155
Discussion and Concluding Commentsp. 160
Appendix to Chapter 4: The Full Squatter Vignettesp. 162
Judging the Past: Historical versus Contemporary Claims to Landp. 169
The Experiment - The Land Conflict Vignettep. 170
Manipulation Checksp. 173
Fairness Judgments: The Dependent Variablep. 179
Analysisp. 181
Discussion and Concluding Commentsp. 191
Appendix to Chapter 5: Full Vignettes - Historical Land Conflictsp. 192
Land Reconciliation and Theories of Justicep. 211
Expanding Research on Public Opinion and Land Issuesp. 215
Directions for Research on Group Identitiesp. 216
Concluding Commentsp. 218
A Note on Race in South Africap. 219
The Survey Methodologyp. 221
The Questionnairep. 227
Referencesp. 289
Indexp. 301
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