The politics of being sorry
The Greensboro truth process and efforts at restorative justice
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 3978299 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Joshua F J Inwood (0000-0002-8291-5970, University of Tennessee at Knoxville, corresponding author), Joshua Inwood |
| Year | 2012 |
| Volume | 13 |
| Issue | 6 |
| Pages | 607-624 |
| Publication date | 2012-09-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Social & Cultural Geography (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1464-9365 • E-ISSN: 1470-1197 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/14649365.2012.710914 |
| OpenAlex | W2057700066 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 12 |
| References cited | 25 |
This paper examines the Greensboro Truth and Reconciliation Commission (GTRC) to better understand the way the truth process in Greensboro, North Carolina intersects with conceptions of restorative justice and geographic understandings of the ‘right to the city.’ The GTRC was a grassroots truth process focused on a shooting of labor organizers in 1979 by Ku Klux Klan and American Nazi Party Members and the complicity of local officials in the violence. In 2006, the GTRC released its report to the citizens of Greensboro and its recommendations for the city touched off a contentious debate. Using a multi-method qualitative approach—including open-ended interviews and archival research—I argue the GTRC process engages with notions of right to the city activism that challenges the right to the city literature to focus on broader discussions of racism, activism, and white privilege that emerges from critical race scholarship and contributes to the growth of robust, multiracial anticapitalist coalitions; an approach to scholarship on the right to the city that has broad academic purchase for social geography and urban political engagement in general
Complicity · Grassroots · Ivory tower · Political science · Politics · Privilege (computing · Racism · Right to the city · Scholarship · Sociology · Environmental Justice and Health Disparities · Gender Studies · Law · Urban Planning and Governance · Urban, Neighborhood, and Segregation Studies
The Work of Southering
News Media Apologies for Racist Coverage
Making repair reparative
Interracial Dialogues in Dixie
Moral regulation
Do black lives really matter in the workplace? Restorative justice as a means to reclaim humanity
Grammars of reckoning
Race, biopolitics, and the future
Street naming and the politics of belonging
Theorizing Violence and the Dialectics of Landscape Memorialization
Hate-crimes as racial violence
Was Tulsa's Brady Street really renamed? Racial (in)justice, memory-work and the neoliberal politics of practicality
Restorative Justice and Reparations
Recapturing Democracy
Retributive and restorative justice
“The Ku Klux Government”
The ‘Right to the City’ in the context of shifting mottos of urban social movements
The pragmatics of political apologies
What kind of right is the right to the city
Making law, making place
The Geography of Survival and the Right to the City
Lawyering Landscapes
Race, Class, and Political Activism
Institutions for Restorative Justice
Saying Sorry
Conflict and Cooperation in Diverse Workgroups
The Klan Revival
Towards a geography of peace
Righting Unrightable Wrongs
Citizenship and the problem of community
Excavating Lefebvre
The right to the city
The Material Effects of the Word
On plantations, prisons, and a black sense of place
| Unique citing works | 12 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,92 |
| Citation span | 2013 - 2026 (14) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 12 |