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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... TRC victim hearings 143 6.1.4 Ideal versus non-ideal testifiers 146 6.1.5 Accepting various interpretations of ... process 176 7.7 The TRC as a powerful state institution 177 7.8 The TRC as a political instrument? 178 7.9 TRC power and ...
... TRC victim hearings 143 6.1.4 Ideal versus non-ideal testifiers 146 6.1.5 Accepting various interpretations of ... process 176 7.7 The TRC as a powerful state institution 177 7.8 The TRC as a political instrument? 178 7.9 TRC power and ...
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... process of reworking my doctorate and making it accessible to the larger public. In addition, I should also thank ... TRC specialists have given me valuable advice and supported me in my first tentative attempts to discover the ...
... process of reworking my doctorate and making it accessible to the larger public. In addition, I should also thank ... TRC specialists have given me valuable advice and supported me in my first tentative attempts to discover the ...
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... TRC and discourse? South Africa's apartheid regime unofficially came to an end with the release of Nelson Mandela in ... process of reconciling South Africans — became a task assigned to the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC). In ...
... TRC and discourse? South Africa's apartheid regime unofficially came to an end with the release of Nelson Mandela in ... process of reconciling South Africans — became a task assigned to the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC). In ...
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... TRC consciously addressed all South Africans and tried to involve all of them in its process — this in an attempt to establish an inclusive national unity. This issue was also part of the inclusive superstructure of the Commission. All ...
... TRC consciously addressed all South Africans and tried to involve all of them in its process — this in an attempt to establish an inclusive national unity. This issue was also part of the inclusive superstructure of the Commission. All ...
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... TRC and its impact on present-day South African society posed a number of problems. To begin with, the main part of the TRC process had been finished about three years earlier; my investigation would thus necessarily be retrospective ...
... TRC and its impact on present-day South African society posed a number of problems. To begin with, the main part of the TRC process had been finished about three years earlier; my investigation would thus necessarily be retrospective ...
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