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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The case of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission Annelies Verdoolaege. Through ... Testifying, complaining, apologising, venting one's rage, expressing one's ... victims could testify about what had happened to them under apartheid. In ...
The case of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission Annelies Verdoolaege. Through ... Testifying, complaining, apologising, venting one's rage, expressing one's ... victims could testify about what had happened to them under apartheid. In ...
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... testifying victims, but also between testifiers and the audience or between testifiers and some of the contextual features (media, discursive setting, etc.). As with any institutional situation, power relations took shape through ...
... testifying victims, but also between testifiers and the audience or between testifiers and some of the contextual features (media, discursive setting, etc.). As with any institutional situation, power relations took shape through ...
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... testifying victims; and the ways in which it reverberated through South African society at large. Therefore, South Africa's apartheid victims and their visions on the past and the future are the central focus of this work. All this ...
... testifying victims; and the ways in which it reverberated through South African society at large. Therefore, South Africa's apartheid victims and their visions on the past and the future are the central focus of this work. All this ...
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... testifying victims and their families — for instance, during their testimonies victims were constantly assisted by 'briefers', staff members ofthe TRC who had been trained in order to psychologically support survivors of human rights ...
... testifying victims and their families — for instance, during their testimonies victims were constantly assisted by 'briefers', staff members ofthe TRC who had been trained in order to psychologically support survivors of human rights ...
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The case of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission Annelies Verdoolaege. Many victims and survivors of human rights ... testifying. Therefore, the victims were allowed to tell their stories in the languages of their choice, even if these ...
The case of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission Annelies Verdoolaege. Many victims and survivors of human rights ... testifying. Therefore, the victims were allowed to tell their stories in the languages of their choice, even if these ...
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