Overcoming Historical Injustices: Land Reconciliation in South Africa PDF
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This page intentionally left blank OvercomingHistoricalInjustices Land ReconciliationinSouthAfrica OvercomingHistoricalInjusticesisthelastentryinJamesL.Gibson’s ‘‘overcoming’’trilogyonSouthAfrica’stransformationfromapartheid todemocracy.Focusingontheissueofhistoricallanddispossessions– thetakingofAfricanlandundercolonialismandapartheid–thisbook investigates the judgments South Africans make about the fairness of theircountry’spast.Forinstance,shouldlandseizedunderapartheidbe returned today to its rightful owner? Gibson’s research zeroes in on groupidentitiesandattachmentsasthethreadthatconnectspeopleto thepast.Evenwhenindividualshaveexperiencednodirectharminthe past,theycareaboutthefairnessofthetreatmentoftheirgrouptothe extentthattheyidentifywiththatgroup.Gibson’sanalysisshowsthat land issues in contemporary South Africa are salient, volatile, and enshroudedinsymbolsand,mostimportant,thatinterracialdifferences in understandings of the past and preferences for the future are profound. JamesL.GibsoniscurrentlytheSidneyW.SouersProfessorofGovern- mentatWashingtonUniversityinSt.Louis.Hehaspublishedmorethan 100 refereed articles and chapters in a wide range of national and in- ternationalsocial-scientificjournals,includingalloftheleadingpoliti- cal science journals. He has also published five books, including the award-winningOvercomingApartheid:CanTruthReconcileaDivided Nation? and Citizens, Courts, and Confirmations: Positivity Theory andtheJudgmentsoftheAmericanPeople(co-authoredwithGregory A. Caldeira, forthcoming). Gibson has served as the President of the MidwestPoliticalScienceAssociationandasanofficeroftheAmerican Political Science Association. His research has been recognized with numerousawards.Gibson’soverallresearchagendaondemocratization wasrecognizedwiththe2005DecadeofBehaviorResearchAward. CAMBRIDGE STUDIES IN PUBLIC OPINION AND POLITICAL PSYCHOLOGY SeriesEditors DENNIS CHONG, Northwestern University JAMESH.KUKLINSKI,UniversityofIllinois,Urbana-Champaign Cambridge Studies in Public Opinion and Political Psychology pub- lishes innovative research from a variety of theoretical and methodo- logical perspectives on the mass public foundations of politics and society. Research in the series focuses on the origins and influence of mass opinion; the dynamics of information and deliberation; and the emotional, normative, and instrumental bases of political choice. In additiontoexaminingpsychologicalprocesses,theseriesexploresthe organizationofgroups,theassociationbetweenindividualandcollec- tivepreferences,andtheimpactofinstitutionsonbeliefsandbehavior. CambridgeStudiesinPublicOpinionandPoliticalPsychologyisdedi- catedtofurtheringtheoreticalandempiricalresearchontherelationship betweenthepoliticalsystemandtheattitudesandactionsofcitizens. BooksintheseriesarelistedonthepagefollowingtheIndex. Overcoming Historical Injustices Land Reconciliation in South Africa JAMES L. GIBSON Washington University in St. Louis CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS Cambridge, New York, Melbourne, Madrid, Cape Town, Singapore, São Paulo Cambridge University Press The Edinburgh Building, Cambridge CB2 8RU, UK Published in the United States of America by Cambridge University Press, New York www.cambridge.org Information on this title: www.cambridge.org/9780521517881 © James L. Gibson 2009 This publication is in copyright. Subject to statutory exception and to the provision of relevant collective licensing agreements, no reproduction of any part may take place without the written permission of Cambridge University Press. First published in print format 2009 ISBN-13 978-0-511-54099-8 eBook (NetLibrary) ISBN-13 978-0-521-51788-1 hardback ISBN-13 978-0-521-14440-7 Cambridge University Press has no responsibility for the persistence or accuracy of urls for external or third-party internet websites referred to in this publication, and does not guarantee that any content on such websites is, or will remain, accurate or appropriate. This book is dedicated to Monica E. Kinsella, without whom there would be no worthwhile past, present, or future.
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