Staging Solidarity: Truth and Reconciliation in a New South Africa

By Ronald Eyerman, Tanya Goodman, Jeffrey C. Alexander

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: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1594512868
• ISBN13: 9781594512865
• Release Date: December 2010
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 194 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 8.9"