Michael Cunningham
- Published in print:
- 2014
- Published Online:
- January 2015
- ISBN:
- 9780719089268
- eISBN:
- 9781781707654
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- Manchester University Press
- DOI:
- 10.7228/manchester/9780719089268.001.0001
- Subject:
- Political Science, Conflict Politics and Policy
The book considers the issues surrounding the political apology. These include the relationship between the personal and the political apology, reasons for the emergence of the political apology and ...
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The book considers the issues surrounding the political apology. These include the relationship between the personal and the political apology, reasons for the emergence of the political apology and the principal issues relating to the coherence of the political apology as a project. It also considers the dynamics of apologies between states and those within states and tries to explain the basis of support and opposition to different apologies.Less
The book considers the issues surrounding the political apology. These include the relationship between the personal and the political apology, reasons for the emergence of the political apology and the principal issues relating to the coherence of the political apology as a project. It also considers the dynamics of apologies between states and those within states and tries to explain the basis of support and opposition to different apologies.
Giselle Byrnes
- Published in print:
- 2015
- Published Online:
- May 2016
- ISBN:
- 9780719091537
- eISBN:
- 9781526104120
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Manchester University Press
- DOI:
- 10.7228/manchester/9780719091537.003.0014
- Subject:
- History, Imperialism and Colonialism
This chapter argues that New Zealand’s national apologies, in the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries –those produced by the modern Treaty of Waitangi settlements process, as well as more ...
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This chapter argues that New Zealand’s national apologies, in the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries –those produced by the modern Treaty of Waitangi settlements process, as well as more recent declarations of regret – are evidence of its little-acknowledged historical role as a colonising power and imperial force. It considers a number of case studies in which the New Zealand nation-state has willingly engaged in public acts of contrition as a way of coming to terms with a less than ideal past, suggesting that such moments are characteristic of the ways in which the brutality and violence of the colonial past have been successfully silenced and increasingly estranged from the past.Less
This chapter argues that New Zealand’s national apologies, in the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries –those produced by the modern Treaty of Waitangi settlements process, as well as more recent declarations of regret – are evidence of its little-acknowledged historical role as a colonising power and imperial force. It considers a number of case studies in which the New Zealand nation-state has willingly engaged in public acts of contrition as a way of coming to terms with a less than ideal past, suggesting that such moments are characteristic of the ways in which the brutality and violence of the colonial past have been successfully silenced and increasingly estranged from the past.
Michael Cunningham
- Published in print:
- 2014
- Published Online:
- January 2015
- ISBN:
- 9780719089268
- eISBN:
- 9781781707654
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Manchester University Press
- DOI:
- 10.7228/manchester/9780719089268.003.0002
- Subject:
- Political Science, Conflict Politics and Policy
The chapter examines how different disciplines have considered the apology, the relationship between the personal apology and the apology in politics and develops a typology of political apologies.
The chapter examines how different disciplines have considered the apology, the relationship between the personal apology and the apology in politics and develops a typology of political apologies.
