Staging Solidarity: Truth and Reconciliation in a New South Africa

By Tanya Goodman, Jeffrey C. Alexander, Ronald Eyerman

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.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 159451285X
• ISBN13: 9781594512858
• Release Date: January 2009
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 194 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.1" x 9.1"