Staging Solidarity

Truth and Reconciliation in a New South Africa

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ID6551916
AuthorsTanya Goodman (0000-0002-9185-5906), Ronald Eyerman
EditorsRon Eyerman (0000-0002-6332-5414), Jeffrey C Alexander (0000-0003-3600-8023)
Year2007
Pages208
Publication date2007-01-01
Open AccessNo
TypeBOOK
VenueStaging Solidarity (SOURCE_BOOK)
PublisherParadigm Publishers (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.4324/9781315631929
OpenAlexW4241946509
Open LibraryOL12434380M, OL39536853M
ISBN9781594512865, 9781315631929
LanguageEN
Citations received3

The South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) is a modern social drama that enabled the nation's apartheid past to be constructed as a cultural trauma, and by doing so created a new collective narrative of diversity and inclusion. The TRC relied primarily on testimonies from victims and perpetrators of apartheid violence who came forward to tell their stories in a public forum. Rather than simply serving as data for setting the historical record straight, this book shows that it was not only the content of these testimonies but also how these stories were told and what values were attached to them that became significant. Goodman argues that the performative nature of the TRC process effectively designated the past as profane and simultaneously imagined a sacred future community based on democratic idealism and universal solidarity

Business · International relations · International Relations - General · Political science · Sociology · Sociology - General · Solidarity · Law · Memory, Trauma, and Commemoration · Political Conflict and Governance · South African History and Culture · 1994 · Apartheid · General · History · Human rights · Political aspects · Political aspects of Reconciliation · politics and government · Reconciliation · Republic of South Africa · Social conditions · South · South Africa · South Africa. Truth and Reconciliation Commission

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