Overcoming historical land injustices in South Africa
By: James L. Gibson.
Series: Cambridge studies in public opinion and political psychology
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 306
ISBN-13: 9780521517881
Subjects: Land reform -- Law and legislation -- South Africa; Land tenure -- Law and legislation -- South Africa; Reparations for historical injustices -- South Africa
Description: This is an investigation of the judgments South Africans make about the fairness of their country's past, focusing on historical land dispossessions.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Land reconciliation and theories of justice, past and present; title: Naming, blaming, and claiming on historical land injustices : the views of the South African people; title: Group identities and land policy preferences; title: Applied justice judgments: the problem of squatting; title: Judging the past : historical versus contemporary claims to land; title: Land reconciliation and theories of justice.