A Sorry Challenge. "Taking Responsibility for the Past: Reparation and Historical Justice" by Janna Thompson. [review]

dc.contributor.author Dunn, Kristie
dc.date.accessioned 2006-09-03T07:50:37Z
dc.date.available 2006-09-03T07:50:37Z
dc.date.issued 2003-05
dc.description.abstract This book gives us new ways of thinking about questions regarding an apology for historical wrongs sommitted against Indigenous Australians. In a tight and coherent argument, philosopher Janna Thompson develops a moral (as opposed to a legal) theory of reparative justice that helps us understand why we might have obligations to remedy the wrongs of our predecessors. Thompson draws on a number of examples, including white Australia’s obligations towards members of the Stolen Generations, indigenous claims to land in Australia and elsewhere, and claims for compensation for victims of slavery and the Holocaust. Her argument, in a nutshell, is that we owe it to each other to remedy historical injustices because only then can we expect that our own experience of injustice will be remedied by future generations. en
dc.description.sponsorship Australia Council, La Trobe University, National Library of Australia, Holding Redlich, Arts Victoria en
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dc.identifier.citation Dunn, Kristie 2003. A Sorry Challenge. Review of "Taking Responsibility for the Past: Reparation and Historical Justice" by Janna Thompson. 'Australian Book Review', No 251, May, 59. en
dc.identifier.issn 0155-2864
dc.identifier.uri http://hdl.handle.net/2328/1221
dc.language.iso en
dc.publisher Australian Book Review en
dc.relation.ispartofseries No 251 en
dc.subject Australian en
dc.subject Book Reviews en
dc.subject Publishing en
dc.subject.other Australian Standard Research Classification > 420200 Literature Studies > 420202 Australia and New Zealand en
dc.title A Sorry Challenge. "Taking Responsibility for the Past: Reparation and Historical Justice" by Janna Thompson. [review] en
dc.type Article en
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