Governments today often apologize for past injustices and scholars increasingly debate the
issue, with many calling for apologies and reparations. Others suggest that what matters is …

In this enlightening and insightful book, John B. Hatch analyzes various public discourses
that have attempted to address the racialized legacy of slavery, from West Africa to the …

The article examines the role of apology in a process of reconciling with historic injustice. As
with so many other facets of the politics of reconciliation, official apologies are controversial …

Over recent decades, public admissions of our past wrongdoing have become increasingly
widespread. Usually, these practices are viewed as facilitating more inclusive modes of …

This paper considers the nexus of affective engagement, a critical analysis of systemic
discrimination, and reflexive self-implication in education committed to social change. I ask …

This book examines claims for recognition of cultural difference from immigrant and
Indigenous minorities, highlighting the ways in which they intersect with ideas of national …

During the 1990s and early 2000s in Europe, more than fifty historical commissions were
created to confront, discuss, and document the genocide of the Holocaust and to address …

This paper seeks to draw attention to the narcissistic dimensions of the reconciliation
movement in Australia and, more specifically, to the way in which the desire to 'make …

Institutional apologies for historical injustices can be conceived as acts of symbolic inclusion
directed to people whose collective experiences and memories of the past have not been …

I propose a novel account of the essentially expressive nature of reparations. My account is
descriptive of new practices of reparations that have emerged in the past half-century, and it …