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

dc.contributor.authorDunn, Kristie
dc.date.accessioned2006-09-03T07:50:37Z
dc.date.available2006-09-03T07:50:37Z
dc.date.issued2003-05
dc.description.abstractThis 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.sponsorshipAustralia Council, La Trobe University, National Library of Australia, Holding Redlich, Arts Victoriaen
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dc.identifier.citationDunn, 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.issn0155-2864
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/2328/1221
dc.language.isoen
dc.publisherAustralian Book Reviewen
dc.relation.ispartofseriesNo 251en
dc.subjectAustralianen
dc.subjectBook Reviewsen
dc.subjectPublishingen
dc.subject.otherAustralian Standard Research Classification > 420200 Literature Studies > 420202 Australia and New Zealanden
dc.titleA Sorry Challenge. "Taking Responsibility for the Past: Reparation and Historical Justice" by Janna Thompson. [review]en
dc.typeArticleen
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