The Politics of Official Apologies
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 6577763 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Melissa Nobles |
| Year | 2008 |
| Pages | 216 |
| Publication date | 2008-01-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | BOOK |
| Venue | Politics of Official Apologies (SOURCE_BOOK) |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1017/cbo9780511756252 |
| ISBN | 9780511756252 |
| Open Library | OL10436587M |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 137 |
Intense interest in past injustice lies at the centre of contemporary world politics. Most scholarly and public attention has focused on truth commissions, trials, lustration, and other related decisions, following political transitions. This book examines the political uses of official apologies in Australia, Canada, New Zealand, and the United States. It explores why minority groups demand such apologies and why governments do or do not offer them. Nobles argues that apologies can help to alter the terms and meanings of national membership. Minority groups demand apologies in order to focus attention on historical injustices. Apologies, as employed by political actors, play an important, if underappreciated, role in bringing certain views about history and moral obligation to bear in public life.
Current Events · General · International relations · Political economy · Political science · Politics · POLITICS & GOVERNMENT · Apologizing · Australia · canada · Civil rights · History · New zealand · North america · Political aspects · Political aspects of Reconciliation · Political rights · Politics & Government · Politics/International Relations · Reconciliation · united states
Unthinking Racial Realism
The Audacity of Affect
The "Idle No More" Movement
Apologies to Indigenous Peoples in Comparative Perspective
Unsettling settler colonialism in words and land
Gender and Political Apology
Intergroup apologies from both sides
You say it best when you say nothing at all”
Mediatisation and Institutions of Public Memory
Conceptualising and Categorising Child Abuse Inquiries
Mellemværender Om Fortiden
Undskyld
Tunisian university students' choice of apology strategies in a discourse completion task
Reparations and racism, discourse and diversity
Thoughts and Prayers
Making room for negative emotions about the national past
Forced Child Removal and the Politics of National Apologies in Australia
Saying sorry
Australian Memory and the Apology to the Stolen Generations of Indigenous People
Do Apologies End Events? Bloody Sunday, 1972–2010
Using a Mixed Approach to Content Analysis
Archival silences
Pride, Not Prejudice
Does History Matter? Making and debating citizenship, immigration and refugee policy in Australia and New Zealand
Transforming Justice Responses to Non-Recent Institutional Abuses
The Prose of Counter-Sovereignty
A Sorry State
Normative Expectations and the Colonial Past
Political Apologies for Historical Injustices
Anger and Apology, Recognition and Reconciliation
“I Feel Removed, Distant, Shattered, in Two Halves”
Apologies as ‘shame management’
Official apologies as reparations for dirty hands
Historical consciousness matters
La politique des excuses. Repentir officiel et gestion stratégique de la culpabilité dans un ancien port négrier (Liverpool)
Race, crime, and emotions
Performing the meanings of money in the trials of war orphans against Japan
Leviathan on trial
The paradoxes of colonial reparation
Environmental commemoration
Indian drum in the house’
The political responsibility of bystanders
Post-conflict peace initiatives, British Mau Mau compensation, and the mastering of colonial pasts
A day that unites the nation
Roundtable Discussion of Jennifer Lind'S Sorry States
The Debate over African American Reparations
Ida B. Wells and “Color Line Justice”
Impermanent Apologies
Private Lives, Public History
Waiting for a Meaningful State Apology
Closing chapters of the past? Rhetorical strategies in political apologies for human rights violations across the world
A line under the past
The gendered politics of recognition and recognizability through political apology
Reactive remembrance
To tighten or relax social bonds
Sexual violence, political apology and competing victimhoods
We must be happy that times are different now’. Shaping public memory of Danish colonial history in popular culture
Rethinking the nation
Just pretending
The Authoritarian Past and South European Democracies
Reconciling Historical Injustices
Interstate reconciliation
Contested Memories, Precarious Apology
When is an apology not an apology? Contrition chic and Japan's (un)apologetic politics
When political apology becomes a source of soft power
Rituals of apology in the global arena
Comparing Post-War (West) German–Polish and Sino-Japanese Reconciliation
Apologizing for historical injustice
Can Transnational Feminist Solidarity Accommodate Nationalism? Reflections from the Case Study of Korean “Comfort Women”
With God on One's Side
Accounting for the past
Facing Slavery as Saving Face
Retroactive Responsibility
Acts of contrition
When is a justice campaign over? Transitional justice, ‘overing’ and Bloody Sunday
The Negotiated Apology
Rebuild or Reconcile
Does History Matter
The Political Sociology of Emotions
Reconciliation and remembering
The Politics of Reparations for Black Americans
Uneasy Settlements
Rudd's Apology to the Stolen Generations
Apologia, Image Repair, and Reconciliation The Application, Limitations, and Future Directions of Apologetic Rhetoric
Signals of Remorse and Perceptions of Threat
The “sorrystan”
Isopolitics, Deep Colonizing, Settler Colonialism
We are sorry
Knowledge types and presuppositions
Solemn and just demands’
I'm sorry for apologising’
The sorrow of empire
Apologies of the Rich and Famous
Colonial apologies and the problem of the transgressor speaking
State apologies, postcolonial resistance and ontological insecurity
Re‐Member Move
California’s Sterilization Survivors
Coming to Terms With the Past
Racial Reconciliation or Retreat? How Legislative Resolutions Apologizing for Slavery Promulgate White Supremacy
Emotional and Gendered Sense-Making through Apologies for Conflict-Related Sexual Violence
| Citations per year | 8.06 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2009 - 2026 (18) |
| Highly cited | Yes |