The penitent state exposure, mourning and the biopolitics of national healing /

This text asks a deceptively simple question: what are states actually doing when they do penance for past injustices? Why are these penitential gestures - especially the gesture of apology - becoming so ubiquitous and what implications do they carry for the way power is exercised?

Main Author: Muldoon, Paul (College teacher),
Other Authors: Oxford Scholarship Online.
Format: eBook
Language: English
Published: New York, NY : Oxford University Press, 2023.
Physical Description: 1 online resource.
Series: Oxford scholarship online.
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