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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... concept 31 3.2 3-3 3-4 3-5 3.6 The material TRC archive 33 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 ...
... concept 31 3.2 3-3 3-4 3-5 3.6 The material TRC archive 33 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 ...
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... concept of reconciliation, turning it into a highly inclusive term. Because of this vagueness the debate on reconciliation was sustained and is ongoing today; reconciliation became South Africa's national symbol, meaning that by keeping ...
... concept of reconciliation, turning it into a highly inclusive term. Because of this vagueness the debate on reconciliation was sustained and is ongoing today; reconciliation became South Africa's national symbol, meaning that by keeping ...
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... concept was constructed at the HRV hearings; the ways in which it was conceptualised by the testifying victims; and the ways in which it reverberated through South African society at large. Therefore, South Africa's apartheid victims ...
... concept was constructed at the HRV hearings; the ways in which it was conceptualised by the testifying victims; and the ways in which it reverberated through South African society at large. Therefore, South Africa's apartheid victims ...
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... concept The establishment of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission, its proceedings and its final results, were ... concept. It is an uncommon place, “at the intersection of [...] the place and the law, the substrate and the authority ...
... concept The establishment of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission, its proceedings and its final results, were ... concept. It is an uncommon place, “at the intersection of [...] the place and the law, the substrate and the authority ...
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... concept accessible to South Africans who were beyond the reach of regular media. The main part of the TRC archive, however, took shape after the TRC Act had been accepted by parliament in Iuly 1995. The first component of the archive to ...
... concept accessible to South Africans who were beyond the reach of regular media. The main part of the TRC archive, however, took shape after the TRC Act had been accepted by parliament in Iuly 1995. The first component of the archive to ...
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