Staging Solidarity

Truth and Reconciliation in a New South Africa

Nonfiction, Social & Cultural Studies, Social Science, Sociology
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Author: Tanya Goodman, Ronald Eyerman, Jeffrey C. Alexander ISBN: 9781317251484
Publisher: Taylor and Francis Publication: November 17, 2015
Imprint: Routledge Language: English
Author: Tanya Goodman, Ronald Eyerman, Jeffrey C. Alexander
ISBN: 9781317251484
Publisher: Taylor and Francis
Publication: November 17, 2015
Imprint: Routledge
Language: English

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.

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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.

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