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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... 3.2.1 Primary data 33 3.2.2 Secondary data 34 The archive in a Foucaultian sense 36 Archontic power 39 A hierarchy of archons 40 Conclusion 42 XI XIII 31 CHAPTER 4 The sample 43 4.1 Introduction 43 4.2 Textual Table of contents.
... 3.2.1 Primary data 33 3.2.2 Secondary data 34 The archive in a Foucaultian sense 36 Archontic power 39 A hierarchy of archons 40 Conclusion 42 XI XIII 31 CHAPTER 4 The sample 43 4.1 Introduction 43 4.2 Textual Table of contents.
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... archons might be more appropriate (Derrida 1996:2). 'Archons' does not simply refer to the people who collect the documents; it also encompasses the 'entities' that command and control the archived material. The archons have to unify ...
... archons might be more appropriate (Derrida 1996:2). 'Archons' does not simply refer to the people who collect the documents; it also encompasses the 'entities' that command and control the archived material. The archons have to unify ...
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... archons of the TRC archive: they ordered part of the TRC documents, they unified and classified them in order to fit the format of ... archons entextualise the TRC material differently,. 4o Reconciliation Discourse 3.5 A hierarchy of archons.
... archons of the TRC archive: they ordered part of the TRC documents, they unified and classified them in order to fit the format of ... archons entextualise the TRC material differently,. 4o Reconciliation Discourse 3.5 A hierarchy of archons.
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... archons entextualise the TRC material differently, they make use of diflerent technologies and they reach different audiences, dispersed over a wide variety of diflerent contexts. The political parties of the National Assembly who ...
... archons entextualise the TRC material differently, they make use of diflerent technologies and they reach different audiences, dispersed over a wide variety of diflerent contexts. The political parties of the National Assembly who ...
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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