Description
| Product ID: | 9781683931881 |
| Product Form: | Hardback |
| Country of Manufacture: | US |
| Series: | The Fairleigh Dickinson University Press Series in Law, Culture, and the Humanities |
| Title: | Lawfare and the Ovaherero and Nama Pursuit of Restorative Justice, 1918–2018 |
| Authors: | Author: Marouf A., Jr. Hasian |
| Page Count: | 316 |
| Subjects: | Genocide and ethnic cleansing, Genocide & ethnic cleansing, Social discrimination and social justice, Ethnic groups and multicultural studies, War crimes, International law, Social discrimination & inequality, Ethnic minorities & multicultural studies, War crimes, International law |
| Description: | Select Guide Rating This book provides readers with a critical study of the challenges that confronted Namibian activists who tried to sue Germany for genocidal acts that were committed during the German South West Africa (GSWA) years. This book provides readers with a critical analysis of the restorative justice efforts of the Ovaherero and Nama communities in Namibia, who contend that they should receive reparations for what happened to their ancestors during, and after the 1904–1908 German-Ovaherero/Nama war. Arguing that indigenous communities who once lived in a German colony called “German South West Africa” suffered from a genocide that could be compared to the World War II Holocaust Namibian activists sued Germany and German corporations in U.S. federal courts for reparations. The author of this book uses a critical genealogical approach to all of this “lawfare” (the politicizing of the law) in order to illustrate some of the historical origins of this quest for social justice. Portions of the book also explain some of the historical and contemporary realpolitik barriers that stood in the way of Ovaherero and Nama activists who were asking for acknowledgments of the “Namibian genocide,” apologies from German officials, repatriation of human remains from colonial times as well as restitution that might help with land redistribution in today’s Namibia. This book shows many of the difficulties that confront those indigenous communities who ask twenty-first century audiences to pay restitution for large-scale colonial massacres or imperial genocides that might have taken place more than a hundred years ago. |
| Imprint Name: | Fairleigh Dickinson University Press |
| Publisher Name: | Fairleigh Dickinson University Press |
| Country of Publication: | GB |
| Publishing Date: | 2019-10-04 |
