Research into Reconciliation and Forgiveness at the South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission and Homi Bhabha's "Architecture of the New"
Research into Reconciliation and Forgiveness at the South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission and Homi Bhabha's "Architecture of the New"
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南非真相与和解委员会的和解与宽恕研究以及霍米·巴巴的“新建筑”
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10.1017/cls.2015.14
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2015
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Krog A
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本文的中心论点是，在围绕南非真相与和解委员会（TRC）的话语中，许多学者在分析TRC的工作时没有充分应用非洲本土世界观的概念，导致他们有时将这一过程描述为胁迫，矛盾和政治操纵。使用我的研究的不同阶段以及不同的文本，“照亮”每一个阶段，我认为，通过对语言和翻译的关注，一个特定的世界观的普遍性的相互关联可以追溯到，使委员会能够执行其任务创造性和没有报复的发生。承认土著人之间的相互联系对过渡时期司法的概念有着广泛的影响，因为它使愈合、大赦与和解等主要概念重新焕发活力。作为一名报道委员会日常活动的记者，我在这篇文章中穿梭于新闻、写作和学术界的不同认识论社区，以了解语言及其基本认识论是如何为理解真相与和解委员会的工作和证人提供的证词提供重要途径的。
The central argument of this article is that within the discourse around the South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC), many scholars have insufficiently applied the concept of an indigenous African worldview in their analysis of the TRC’s work, leading them at times to describe the process as coerced, contradictory, and politically manipulated. Using the different stages of my research as well as the different texts that “lit up” every phase, I argue that through a focus on language and translation, the pervasiveness of a particular worldview of interconnectedness can be traced that enabled the commission to execute its mandate creatively and without incidences of revenge. The acknowledgement of an indigenous interconnectedness has wide implications for the concept of transitional justice as it rejuvenates the main concepts of healing, amnesty, and reconciliation. As a journalist who reported on the daily activities of the commission, I move in this piece between the different epistemic communities of journalism, writing, and academia in order to understand the way in which language and its underlying epistemology provides an important access route to understanding the workings of the TRC and the testimonies provided by witnesses.