"Adam Sitze meticulously traces the origins of South Africa's Truth and Reconciliation Commission to two well-established instruments of colonial and imperial governance: the jurisprudence of indemnity and the commission of inquiry. This genealogy provides a fresh, though counterintuitive, understanding of the TRC's legal, political, and cultural importance. The TRC's genius, Sitze contends, is not the substitution of 'forgiving' restorative justice for 'strict' legal justice but rather the innovative adaptation of colonial law, sovereignty, and government."
—The Impossible Machine book jacket
