Author: Fiona C. Ross
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781783715268
Category : Apartheid
Languages : en
Pages : 240
Book Description
People who witness acts of terror and violence are often called after the event to bear witness to what they saw. In cases where this violence is inflicted by the state upon its own people, the process of bearing witness is both politically complex and traumatic for the individual involved. Independent trials and commissions have become important mechanisms through which the truth of past violence is sought in democratising states, but to date there has been little close attention to the processes and complexity of the work of such institutions. Fiona Ross's fascinating study of the process of bearing witness is the first book to examine the gendered dimensions of this topic from an anthropological and ethnographic viewpoint. Taking as a key example the Truth and Reconciliation Commission in South Africa, Ross explores women's relationships to testimony, particularly the extent to which women avoid talking about or are silent about certain forms of violence and suffering. Offering a wealth of first-hand examples, Ross approaches a more subtle understanding of the achievements and the limitations of testimony as a measure of suffering and recovery generally. Is it, she asks, the panacea it is usually seen as? Or do conventional discourses on human rights, suffering and reconciliation oversimplify an altogether more complex and problematic process?
Bearing Witness
Author: Fiona C. Ross
Publisher: Pluto Press (UK)
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 224
Book Description
New expanded edition of a classic anthropology title that examines ethnicity as a dynamic and shifting aspect of social relations.
Publisher: Pluto Press (UK)
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 224
Book Description
New expanded edition of a classic anthropology title that examines ethnicity as a dynamic and shifting aspect of social relations.
Bearing Witness
Author: Fiona C. Ross
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781783715268
Category : Apartheid
Languages : en
Pages : 240
Book Description
People who witness acts of terror and violence are often called after the event to bear witness to what they saw. In cases where this violence is inflicted by the state upon its own people, the process of bearing witness is both politically complex and traumatic for the individual involved. Independent trials and commissions have become important mechanisms through which the truth of past violence is sought in democratising states, but to date there has been little close attention to the processes and complexity of the work of such institutions. Fiona Ross's fascinating study of the process of bearing witness is the first book to examine the gendered dimensions of this topic from an anthropological and ethnographic viewpoint. Taking as a key example the Truth and Reconciliation Commission in South Africa, Ross explores women's relationships to testimony, particularly the extent to which women avoid talking about or are silent about certain forms of violence and suffering. Offering a wealth of first-hand examples, Ross approaches a more subtle understanding of the achievements and the limitations of testimony as a measure of suffering and recovery generally. Is it, she asks, the panacea it is usually seen as? Or do conventional discourses on human rights, suffering and reconciliation oversimplify an altogether more complex and problematic process?
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781783715268
Category : Apartheid
Languages : en
Pages : 240
Book Description
People who witness acts of terror and violence are often called after the event to bear witness to what they saw. In cases where this violence is inflicted by the state upon its own people, the process of bearing witness is both politically complex and traumatic for the individual involved. Independent trials and commissions have become important mechanisms through which the truth of past violence is sought in democratising states, but to date there has been little close attention to the processes and complexity of the work of such institutions. Fiona Ross's fascinating study of the process of bearing witness is the first book to examine the gendered dimensions of this topic from an anthropological and ethnographic viewpoint. Taking as a key example the Truth and Reconciliation Commission in South Africa, Ross explores women's relationships to testimony, particularly the extent to which women avoid talking about or are silent about certain forms of violence and suffering. Offering a wealth of first-hand examples, Ross approaches a more subtle understanding of the achievements and the limitations of testimony as a measure of suffering and recovery generally. Is it, she asks, the panacea it is usually seen as? Or do conventional discourses on human rights, suffering and reconciliation oversimplify an altogether more complex and problematic process?
Apartheid in South Africa
Author: David Downing
Publisher: Heinemann-Raintree Library
ISBN: 9781403448705
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 64
Book Description
This book examines the historical forces that led to the development of the system of apartheid, what life was like under the system for both blacks and whites, and the efforts that caused the end of this system.
Publisher: Heinemann-Raintree Library
ISBN: 9781403448705
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 64
Book Description
This book examines the historical forces that led to the development of the system of apartheid, what life was like under the system for both blacks and whites, and the efforts that caused the end of this system.
Witnesses in South Africa
Author: Esther Steyn
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Witnesses
Languages : en
Pages : 428
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Witnesses
Languages : en
Pages : 428
Book Description
The South African Law of Evidence (formerly Hoffmann and Zeffert)
Author: David T. Zeffertt
Publisher: Butterworth-Heinemann
ISBN:
Category : Evidence (Law)
Languages : en
Pages : 1054
Book Description
Publisher: Butterworth-Heinemann
ISBN:
Category : Evidence (Law)
Languages : en
Pages : 1054
Book Description
The Hostile Witness in English and South African Law of Evidence
Author: Lee Gary Marler
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Witnesses
Languages : en
Pages : 330
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Witnesses
Languages : en
Pages : 330
Book Description
Can I Get a Witness?
Author: Brian K. Blount
Publisher: Westminster John Knox Press
ISBN: 9780664228699
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 172
Book Description
In this accessible and provocative study, Brian Blount reads the book of Revelation through the lens of African American culture, drawing correspondences between Revelation's context and the long-standing suffering of African Americans. Applying the African American social, political, and religious experience as an interpretive cipher for the book's complicated imagery, he contends that Revelation is essentially a story of suffering and struggle amid oppressive assimilation. He examines the language of "martyr" and the image of the lamb, and shows that the thread of resistance to oppressive power that runs through John's hymns resonates with a parallel theme in the music of African America.
Publisher: Westminster John Knox Press
ISBN: 9780664228699
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 172
Book Description
In this accessible and provocative study, Brian Blount reads the book of Revelation through the lens of African American culture, drawing correspondences between Revelation's context and the long-standing suffering of African Americans. Applying the African American social, political, and religious experience as an interpretive cipher for the book's complicated imagery, he contends that Revelation is essentially a story of suffering and struggle amid oppressive assimilation. He examines the language of "martyr" and the image of the lamb, and shows that the thread of resistance to oppressive power that runs through John's hymns resonates with a parallel theme in the music of African America.
South African Law of Evidence
Author: Leonard Hubert Hoffmann
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Evidence (Law)
Languages : en
Pages : 500
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Evidence (Law)
Languages : en
Pages : 500
Book Description
The Justice Sector Afterthought
Author: Chris Mahony
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : International criminal courts
Languages : en
Pages : 230
Book Description
This book is the first of its kind to address the frictions between protecting the rights of accused persons and protecting the physical and psychological well being of witnesses in Africa. Included are justice reform, initiatives to create protection programs, legislation, and dependence on state and international cooperation. Specific attention is given to the International Criminal Court (ICC) and international criminal tribunals.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : International criminal courts
Languages : en
Pages : 230
Book Description
This book is the first of its kind to address the frictions between protecting the rights of accused persons and protecting the physical and psychological well being of witnesses in Africa. Included are justice reform, initiatives to create protection programs, legislation, and dependence on state and international cooperation. Specific attention is given to the International Criminal Court (ICC) and international criminal tribunals.
Not by Might Nor by Power, But by His Spirit
Author: John Holding
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Lay ministry
Languages : en
Pages : 120
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Lay ministry
Languages : en
Pages : 120
Book Description