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The Politics of Official Apologies

By Melissa Nobles

Book information

Year
2008
ISBN
9780521872317, 0521872316, 0521693853, 9780521693851, 9780511378928
LCC
JC599.N66 N63 2008
Open Library ID
OL10436587M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
739 kB (756888 bytes)
Pages
215\215
Scanned
no
Time added
2011-06-04 13:46:07

Description

This book examines the political uses of official apologies in the United States, Australia, Canada, and New Zealand. Nobles explores why minority groups demand such apologies and why governments do or do not offer them. She argues that apologies can help to alter the terms and meanings of national membership. Minorities demand apologies in order to focus attention on historical injustices, the rectification of which, they argue, should guide changes in present-day government policies. When employed by political actors, apologies play an important, if under appreciated, role in bringing certain views about history and moral obligation to bear in public life.

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