On the uses and abuses of political apologies
By: edited by Mihaela Mihai, Department of Politics, University of York, UK and Mathias Thaler, Department of Politics and International Relations, University of Edinburgh, UK
Series: Rhetoric, politics and society series
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2014
Place of publication: Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 246
ISBN-13: 9781137343710
Subjects: Apologizing; Political aspects
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 220-240) and index.
Table of contents: title: Pt. I; title: Theoretical Foundations -- -- 1.; title: Beyond the Ideal Political Apology  -- Alice MacLachlan -- 2.; title: Political Apologies and Categorical Apologies  -- Nick Smith -- pt. II; title: Rites and Rituals of Regret -- -- 3.; title: From Mea Culpa to Nostra Culpa: A Reparative Apology from the Catholic Church?  -- Danielle Celermajer -- 4.; title: The Power of Ritual Ceremonies in State Apologies: An Empirical Analysis of the Bilateral Polish -- Russian Commemoration Ceremony in Katyn in 2010  -- Michel-Andre Horelt -- 5.; title: Confessing the Holocaust: The Evolution of German Guilt  -- Stefan Engert -- pt. III; title: Challenging Cases -- -- 6.; title: Revisiting the M̀embership Theory of Apologies': Apology Politics in Australia and Canada  -- Melissa Nobles -- 7.; title: The Canadian Apology to Indigenous Residential School Survivors: A Case Study of Renegotiation of Social Relations  -- Neil Funk-Unrau -- 8.; title: What Makes a State Apology Authoritative? Lessons from Post-Authoritarian Brazil  -- Nina Schneider -- pt. IV; title: Obstacles and Limitations -- -- 9.; title: The Apology in Democracies: Reflections on the Challenges of Competing Goods, Citizenship, Nationalism and Pluralist Politics  -- Michael Cunningham -- 10.; title: An Apology for Public Apologies?  -- Juan Espindola -- 11.; title: Reasoning Like a State: Integration and the Limits of Official Regret -- Cindy Holder.