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Melissa Nobles - The Politics of Official Apologies (2008), Książki USA

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The Politics of Official Apologies
Intense interest in past injustice lies at the center 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 govern-
ments do or do not offer them. Melissa Nobles argues that apologies can
help to alter the terms and meanings of national membership. Minor-
ity groups demand apologies in order to focus attention on historical
injustices, the rectification of which, they argue, should guide changes in
present-day government policies. Similarly, state actors support apolo-
gies for ideological and moral reasons, driven by their support of group
rights, responsiveness to group demands, and belief that acknowledg-
ment is due. Apologies, as employed by political actors, play an impor-
tant, if underappreciated, role in bringing certain views about history
and moral obligation to bear in public life.
Melissa Nobles is an associate professor of political science at the
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Professor Nobles’ teaching and
research interests are in the comparative study of racial and ethnic pol-
itics and issues of retrospective justice. She is the author of
Shades of
Citizenship: Race and the Census in Modern Politics
(2000), which
received the 2001 Outstanding Book Award from the National Confer-
ence of Black Political Scientists, as well as honorable mention of the
Ralph Bunche Book Award from the American Political Science Asso-
ciation. Nobles has been a Fellow at Boston University’s Institute on
Race and Social Division (2000–1) and Harvard University’s Radcliffe
Center for Advanced Study (2003–4).
The Politics of Official Apologies
MELISSA NOBLES
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
ISBN-13 978-0-521-69385-1
CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS
Cambridge, New York, Melbourne, Madrid, Cape Town, Singapore, São Paulo
Cambridge University Press
The Edinburgh Building, Cambridge CB2 8RU, UK
ISBN-13 978-0-521-87231-7
First published in print format
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