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Published 2008.
This volume is a research monograph analysing the South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) from an ethnographic/linguistic point of view. According to the central proposition of this book, the TRC can be regarded ...
Published 2008.
This volume is a research monograph analysing the South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) from an ethnographic/linguistic point of view. According to the central proposition of this book, the TRC can be regarded as a mechanism to produce power through discourse. The aim is to analyse 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, it is an investigation of the long-term implications a truth commission can exert on a traumatised post-conflict society. The uniqueness of this book can be identified on several distinct levels: TRC discourse is explored on the basis of personal stories from TRC testifiers; a combination of poststructuralism and Critical Discourse Analysis form the theoretical foundations; and by means of an extensive bibliography the book provides an impressive database of TRC publications.
