{"pk":2608,"title":"Featured Commentary: Nelson Mandela, Memory, and the Work of Justice","subtitle":null,"abstract":"Verne Harris uses the 18th Alan Paton Lecture to reflect on the roles of  memory in the reconstruction of South Africa in the wake of the  apartheid era.  He addresses three interlinked questions: has  post-apartheid memory work only scratched the surface of the country's  pain and alienation; does the really hard work remain to be done; and to  what extent are the failures of the post-apartheid project failures of  memory?  These questions are addressed along five lines of enquiry:  metarrative, access to information, healing, reconciliation and  learning.  For each Harris suggests a deconstructive interrogation.   While focused on South African specificities, the enquiry speaks to  global questions of transitional justice and reckoning with oppressive  pasts.","language":"en","license":null,"keywords":[{"word":"memory"},{"word":"Transitional Justice"},{"word":"Metanarrative"},{"word":"Access to information"},{"word":"Healing"},{"word":"Deconstruction"},{"word":"reconciliation"}],"section":"Special Section Articles","is_remote":true,"remote_url":"https://escholarship.org/uc/item/4ng874xp","frozenauthors":[{"first_name":"Verne","middle_name":"","last_name":"Harris","name_suffix":"","institution":"The Nelson Mandela Centre of Memory","department":"None"}],"date_submitted":"2012-01-27T16:02:43Z","date_accepted":"2012-01-27T16:02:43Z","date_published":"2012-06-14T23:59:27Z","render_galley":null,"galleys":[{"label":"","type":"","path":"https://journalpub.escholarship.org/gseis_interactions/article/2608/galley/1570/download/"}]}