03265oam 22005294a 450 991048873860332120230621141100.01-80034-480-510.3828/9781800349261(CKB)5590000000516357(OCoLC)1257951200(MdBmJHUP)muse99326(MiAaPQ)EBC6977965(Au-PeEL)EBL6977965(oapen)https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/70963(EXLCZ)99559000000051635720210629d2021 uy 0engur|||||||nn|ntxtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierImprovising ReconciliationConfession after the Truth Commission /Ed CharltonLiverpoolLiverpool University Press2021Liverpool :Liverpool University Press,2021.©2021.1 online resource (1 online resource) : illustrations1-80085-842-6 1-80034-926-2 "An Open Access edition of this book will be made available on the Liverpool University Press website and the OAPEN library on publication. Improvising Reconciliation is prompted by South Africa’s enduring state of injustice. It is both a lament for the promise with which non-racial democracy was inaugurated and, more substantially, a space within which to consider its possible renewal. As such, this study lobbies for an expanded approach to the country’s formal transition from apartheid in order to grapple with reconciliation’s ongoing potential within the contemporary imaginary. It does not, however, presume to correct the contradictions that have done so much to corrupt the concept in recent decades. Instead, it upholds the language of reconciliation for strategic, rather than essential, reasons. And while this study surveys some of the many serious critiques levelled at the country’s Truth and Reconciliation Commission (1996-2001), these misgivings help situate the plural, improvised approach to reconciliation that has arguably emerged from the margins of the cultural sphere in the years since. Improvisation serves here as a separate way of both thinking and doing reconciliation. It recalibrates the concept according to a series of deliberative, agonistic and iterative, rather than monumental, interventions, rendering reconciliation in terms that make failure a necessary condition for its future realisation."ConfessionReconciliationSocial aspectsSouth AfricaReconciliationPolitical aspectsSouth AfricaSouth AfricaRace relationsElectronic books. South Africa;transition;drama;theatre;film;stage;Marc Kaplin;democracy;Truth;Commission;performance;separation;Farber;Ingrid Gavshon;Ramadan Suleman;justice;human rightsConfession.ReconciliationSocial aspectsReconciliationPolitical aspects323.49Charlton Ed871334MdBmJHUPMdBmJHUPBOOK9910488738603321Improvising Reconciliation1945220UNINA