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From apartheid to democracy : deliberating truth and reconciliation in South Africa / Katherine Elizabeth Mack.
LIBRA DT1974.2 .M33 2014
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Mack, Katherine Elizabeth, 1974- author.
- Series:
- Rhetoric and democratic deliberation ; 11.
- Rhetoric and democratic deliberation
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- South Africa. Truth and Reconciliation Commission.
- South Africa.
- Rhetoric--South Africa.
- Rhetoric.
- Deliberative democracy--South Africa.
- Deliberative democracy.
- Reconciliation--Social aspects--South Africa.
- Reconciliation.
- Post-apartheid era--South Africa.
- Post-apartheid era.
- Social aspects.
- Apartheid--South Africa.
- Apartheid.
- Physical Description:
- xiv, 156 pages ; 24 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- University Park, Pennsylvania : The Pennsylvania State University Press, [2014]
- Summary:
- "Analyzes the deliberations and impact of the South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC). Argues that while it failed to realize its idealistic goals, its very failure generated valuable contestation within and beyond the TRC process"--Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- Introduction : the rhetoricity of truth commissions
- Localizing transitional justice
- Ambivalent speech, resonant silences
- Contesting accountability
- Imagining reconciliation
- Conclusion.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780271064970
- 0271064978
- OCLC:
- 880499900
- Publisher Number:
- 40024316125
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