Staging Solidarity: Truth and Reconciliation in a New South Africa (Yale Cultural Sociology)

by JeffreyC.Alexander (Author), RonaldEyerman (Author), TanyaGoodman (Author)

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  Illustrated
  2007

  $271.05

  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. This book argues that the performative nature of the TRC effectively designated the past as profane and put a sacred community based on democratic idealism and universal solidarity.