Reconciliation Discourse

Name: Reconciliation Discourse | The case of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission
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The case of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission

Annelies Verdoolaege(Autor*in)

John Benjamins Publishing Company

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Erschienen am 6. Februar 2008

XIII, 238 Seiten

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Reconciliation Discourse
Editorial page
Title page
LCC data
dedication page
Table of contents
Preface
Acronyms
1. Introduction
1.1 The TRC and discourse?
1.2 Central proposition of this book
1.3 Theoretical framework
1.4 Some general remarks
2. The South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission
2.1 How it all began
2.2 Formal aspects of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission
2.3 The TRC ready for operation
2.3.1 The Human Rights Violations Committee
2.3.2 The Amnesty Committee
2.3.3 The Reparation and Rehabilitation Committee
2.4 The TRC as a favourable phenomenon
2.5 Negative critiques on the TRC
2.6 Language at the HRV hearings
2.7 Discourse at the HRV hearings
3. The TRC archive
3.1 The 'archive' as a concept
3.2 The material TRC archive
3.2.1 Primary data
3.2.2 Secondary data
3.3 The archive in a Foucaultian sense
3.4 Archontic power
3.5 A hierarchy of archons
3.6 Conclusion
4. The sample
4.1 Introduction
4.2 Textual data
4.3 Audio-visual material
4.4 Translating and transcribing
4.5 My concrete selection
5. Layering and HRV discour
5.1 Introduction
5.2 Ideological layering
5.2.1 Trying to define ideology
5.2.2 Ideology through discourse
5.2.3 The TRC ideological master narrative
5.2.4 Feature One: Introducing reconciliation
5.2.5 Feature Two: Stressing national unity/community spirit
5.2.6 Feature Three: Respecting testifiers
5.2.7 Feature Four: Emphasising emotional discourse
5.3 Historical layering
5.3.1 Introduction
5.3.2 Feature Five: Apartheid-talk
5.3.3 Feature Six: Continuity between the past and the present
5.3.4 Feature Seven: Audience as actor
5.4 Identity layering
5.4.1 Introduction
5.4.2 Feature Eight: Struggling with an Afrikaner/white identity
5.4.3 Feature Nine: Victim-perpetrator identity
5.4.4 Feature Ten: Pro-con ANC identity
5.5 The ideal testifier
5.5.1 Introduction
5.5.2 Mr. Gregory Beck
5.5.3 Discussion
5.6 Conclusion
6. Reconciliation discourse, truth and society
6.1 Reconciliation as a multidimensional term at the HRV hearings
6.1.1 Introduction
6.1.2 Constructing truth through discourse
6.1.3 The term 'reconciliation' at the TRC victim hearings
6.1.4 Ideal versus non-ideal testifiers
6.1.5 Accepting various interpretations of reconciliation
6.2 A multilayered reconciliation discourse in South African reality
6.2.1 Introduction
6.2.2 Reconciliation discourse pre-TRC
6.2.3 Reconciliation discourse after 1995
6.2.4 Reconciliation discourse following the Mandela era
6.2.5 Reconciliation discourse outside politics
6.2.6 A multilayered reconciliation-oriented reality
7. Exercising power through discourse
7.1 Introduction
7.2 Power and discourse, the contex
7.3 The TRC exercised power at the HRV hearings
7.4 Power exertion yes, but .
7.5 The TRC and power in society
7.6 The historical setting of the TRC process
7.7 The TRC as a powerful state institution
7.8 The TRC as a political instrument?
7.9 TRC power and its impact on South African society
8. Towards a conclusion
8.1 In short: The main findings of this study
8.2 The researcher's perspective
8.2.1 Methodology
8.2.2 Evaluating the TRC?
8.2.3 Suggesting vs. concluding
8.3 The South African TRC and beyond
References
Index
The series Discourse Approaches to Politics, Society and Culture

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