Staging Solidarity - Truth and Reconciliation in a New South Africa - Hardback - 2007

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.
Year of publication: 2007
Pagination: 194 pages, Illustrations
Format: Hardback
Serie: The Yale Cultural Sociology Series
Editor: Ron Eyerman, Jeffrey C. Alexander