Reconciliation Discourse: The case of the Truth and Reconciliation CommissionThis volume is a research monograph analysing the South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) from an ethnographic/linguistic point of view. The central proposition of this book is that the TRC can be regarded as a mechanism that leads to the hegemony of specific discourses, thus excercising power. The analysis illustrates how, through a certain type of reconciliation discourse constructed at the TRC hearings, a reconciliation-oriented reality took shape in post-TRC South Africa. Basically, the study points to the long-term implications a truth commission can exert on a traumatised post-conflict society. The book is unique on several levels: TRC discourse is explored in-depth on the basis of personal stories from TRC testifiers; a combination of Poststructuralist and Critical Discourse Analysis approaches form the theoretical foundations; and an extensive bibliography provides an impressive database of TRC publications. |
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... law in Iuly 1995 and came into effect on the 15th of December 1995 (Boraine 2000c: 71). It was this Promotion ofNational Unity and Reconciliation Act 34 of 1995 (from now on 'TRC Act') by which the Truth and Reconciliation Commission ...
... law in Iuly 1995 and came into effect on the 15th of December 1995 (Boraine 2000c: 71). It was this Promotion ofNational Unity and Reconciliation Act 34 of 1995 (from now on 'TRC Act') by which the Truth and Reconciliation Commission ...
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... Act; 3. establishing and making known the fate or whereabouts of victims and restoring the human and civil dignity ... (TRC Report 1998, 1/4:54). The TRC was seen as a bridge-building process between a past of injustice, dis— crimination ...
... Act; 3. establishing and making known the fate or whereabouts of victims and restoring the human and civil dignity ... (TRC Report 1998, 1/4:54). The TRC was seen as a bridge-building process between a past of injustice, dis— crimination ...
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... TRC and the Methodist minister Alex Boraine became the deputy chairperson ... Act also allowed for the appointment of additional committee members to ... (TRC Report 1998, 1/6: 137). Apart from the selection of the commissioners, it was ...
... TRC and the Methodist minister Alex Boraine became the deputy chairperson ... Act also allowed for the appointment of additional committee members to ... (TRC Report 1998, 1/6: 137). Apart from the selection of the commissioners, it was ...
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... (TRC Report 1998, 1/11:331). Although the Investigation Unit was considered to be one of the four cornerstones of the TRC, it was especially the three Committees that attracted most attention. 2.3.1 The Human Rights Violations Committee ...
... (TRC Report 1998, 1/11:331). Although the Investigation Unit was considered to be one of the four cornerstones of the TRC, it was especially the three Committees that attracted most attention. 2.3.1 The Human Rights Violations Committee ...
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... TRC. Hundreds of apartheid victims were given a voice and were offered a platform to talk about their experiences in ... Act. Following the Act, the AC consisted initially of a chairperson, a vice-chairperson and three other members ...
... TRC. Hundreds of apartheid victims were given a voice and were offered a platform to talk about their experiences in ... Act. Following the Act, the AC consisted initially of a chairperson, a vice-chairperson and three other members ...
Contents
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4 The sample | 43 |
5 Layering and HRV discour | 53 |
6 Reconciliation discourse truth and society | 141 |
62 A multilayered reconciliation discourse in South African reality | 155 |
7 Exercising power through discourse | 167 |
8 Towards a conclusion | 185 |
References | 193 |
Index | 229 |
The series Discourse Approaches to Politics Society and Culture | 239 |
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a-typical African National Congress Afrikaans Alex Boraine amnesty apartheid past apartheid victims archons audience Bambiso Beck Blommaert Boraine Buthelezi Cape Town code switching concept conflict constructed Critical Discourse Analysis David Philip Publishers defined definitely diflerent Discourse Analysis emotional explicitly expressed final find findings first forgiveness Foucault groups historical HRV Committee HRV discourse HRV hearings Human Rights Violations ideal testifiers identified identity ideology influence institution interpretation Iohannesburg language layering liberation movement linguistic Mandela MANTHATA master narrative national unity Nelson Mandela officials ofthe TRC perpetrators police political Reconciliation Commission reconciliation discourse reconciliation in South reconciliation-oriented Reflections reparations SABC Siko social South Africa South African society specific statements stories stress struggle talk term reconciliation testifying victims testimony tion tortured traumatic TRC Act TRC archive TRC process TRC Report 1998 TRC’s Truth and Reconciliation Truth Commission Tutu ubuntu University Press Villa-Vicencio Whitfield