Adam Sitze (Amherst College). The Impossible Machine (The University of Michigan Press, 2013).
"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
James L. Gibson (Washington University, St. Louis). Overcoming Historical Injustices: Land Reconciliation in South Africa (Cambridge University Press, 2009).
“Overcoming Historical Injustices is the last entry in James L. Gibson's 'overcoming' trilogy on South Africa's transformation from apartheid to democracy. Focusing on the issue of historical land dispossessions - the taking of African land under colonialism and apartheid - this book investigates the judgments South Africans make about the fairness of their country's past.”
—Cambridge University Press website
