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Overcoming Historical Injustices: Land Reconciliation in South Africa. By James L. Gibson

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  25 May 2012

Monika Nalepa
Monika Nalepa
Affiliation:
University of Notre Dame
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Overcoming Historical Injustices: Land Reconciliation in South Africa. By James L. Gibson. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2009. 328p. $92.00.

All three of James Gibson's books on transitional justice in South Africa focus on showing that the politics of reconciliation with the Apartheid regime are less related to economic “self-interest” than to “sociotropic fairness.” On close examination, Gibson concludes that an individual's preferences about land reconciliation are not a direct function of egocentric instrumentalism. Rather, in his view, they are shaped by conceptions of whether one's group has been fairly treated.

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Critical Dialogue
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Perspectives on Politics , Volume 10 , Issue 2 , June 2012 , pp. 429 - 431
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Copyright © American Political Science Association 2012

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