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The transitional justice discourse The transitional justice discourse
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The dislocation of justice as a possible anchor point of the debate The dislocation of justice as a possible anchor point of the debate
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Responses to the dislocation: the articulation of transitional justice and the promotion of reconciliation as an alternative transitional ideal Responses to the dislocation: the articulation of transitional justice and the promotion of reconciliation as an alternative transitional ideal
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The articulation of reconciliation in the context of the transitional justice discourse The articulation of reconciliation in the context of the transitional justice discourse
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Reconciliation v. justice? The disputed discursive relation between competing transitional ideals Reconciliation v. justice? The disputed discursive relation between competing transitional ideals
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Reconciliation through truth: the stabilisation and authorisation of the South African constructions of reconciliation Reconciliation through truth: the stabilisation and authorisation of the South African constructions of reconciliation
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Science and discourse: the production of reconciliation as a truth Science and discourse: the production of reconciliation as a truth
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Reconciliation and its critics Reconciliation and its critics
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Reconciliation and the authorisation of the truth commission Reconciliation and the authorisation of the truth commission
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Conclusion: the global proliferation of the reconciliation language Conclusion: the global proliferation of the reconciliation language
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Notes Notes
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The global proliferation of the reconciliation language in the context of the transitional justice discourse
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Published:March 2013
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Abstract
In the years after the South African transition, these constructions of reconciliation began to proliferate beyond the borders of South Africa. Chapter 3 reconstructs this process and examines how the South African transition and reconciliation discourse were part of and fed into another discourse that emerged on the global level at the time, namely the discourse on transitional justice. Chapter 3 argues that it was in the context of this emerging global discourse that the reconciliation ideal gained authority beyond the South African confines from the late 1990s onwards, and the South African constructions of reconciliation diffused around the globe. The global spread of the reconciliation language, as argued in chapter 3, performed in global politics by authorizing the truth commission as a legitimate institution in the context of transition. While the truth commission was no new institution at the time, it was hitherto seen as a ‘second-best’ response to human rights violations, and it was through the rise of global reconciliation discourse that this institution gained normative authority on its own.
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