Claire Moon

Narrating Political Reconciliation

South Africa's Truth and Reconciliation Commission

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Produktbeschreibung

Narrating Political Reconciliation advances a distinctive discourse analysis of South Africa's reconciliation process by enquiring into the politics of the following: writing national history, confessional, and testimonial styles of truth, and reconciliation as theology and therapy. Moon argues that the TRC was the catalyst for, and shaped the parameters of, what is now powerful 'reconciliation industry,' and her insights provide a theoretical framework through which to think and problematise the politics of transitional justice in post-conflict and democratizing states more generally.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Lexington Books
• Seitenzahl: 188
• Erscheinungstermin: 16. Juli 2009
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 10mm
• Gewicht: 282g
• ISBN-13: 9780739140451
• ISBN-10: 0739140450
• Artikelnr.: 26986052

Autorenporträt

Claire Moon is lecturer in the sociology of human rights at London School of Economics and Political Science.

Inhaltsangabe

Chapter 1 Introduction. Reconciliation and the Governance of Political
Transition
Chapter 2 Chapter 1. Dealing With Past Atrocity: The TRC in Context
Chapter 3 Chapter 2. Narrating Political Reconciliation in South Africa
Chapter 4 Chapter 3. Narrating the Past: Writing South Africa's Violent
History
Chapter 5 Chapter 4. Narrating the Present: Confessional and Testimonial
Truth-Telling
Chapter 6 Chapter 5. Narrating the Future: Theology and Therapy in
Reconciliation
Chapter 7 Conclusions. A Book of Confessions