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Lawfare and the Ovaherero and Nama Pursuit of Restorative Justice, 1918-2018
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2019
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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.
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2019
ISBN-Print
978-1-68393-188-1
ISBN-Online
978-1-68393-189-8
Publisher
University Press Copublishing, Lanham
Language
English
Pages
307
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Acknowledgments No access
Chapter One: Introduction No access Pages 1 - 30
Chapter Two: Heroic and Tragic Tales of Colonial Deeds in German South West Africa, 1884 to 1908 No access Pages 31 - 66
Chapter Three: The German Social Democrats’ Anti-Imperialist Rhetorics and the Promotion of “Native” Rights during Reichstag Debates, 1904–1913 No access Pages 67 - 86
Chapter Four: “Little Heaps of Sand,” and the Transcontinental Debates about the Evidentiary Nature of the 1918 British Blue Book No access Pages 87 - 110
Chapter Five: Apartheid, Colonial Aphasia, and Decolonizing Remembrances, 1919–1969 No access Pages 111 - 136
Chapter Six: Academic Scholarship, Cold War Politics, and the Revival of Scholarly Interest in Ovaherero and Nama Restitution No access Pages 137 - 162
Chapter Seven: The 2001 Herero People’s Reparations Case Filed in U.S. Courts No access Pages 163 - 194
Chapter Eight: Realpolitik Entanglements of Namibian-German Relationships and the Dingpolitik of Ovaherero Herero and Nama Human Remains No access Pages 195 - 230
Chapter Nine: The 2017 Ovaherero and Nama Reparations Lawsuit No access Pages 231 - 258
Chapter Ten: Contemplating the Future of Lawfare in Contests over Namibian Claims for Restorative Justice No access Pages 259 - 288
Bibliography No access Pages 289 - 300
Index No access Pages 301 - 306
About the Author No access Pages 307 - 307
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