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, and by doing so created a new collective narrative of diversity and inclusion. The TRC relied primarily on testimonies from victims and perpetrators of apartheid violence who came forward to tell their stories in a public forum. Rather than simply serving as data for setting the historical...

• 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"