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Politics and prosthesis : representing disability in South Africa's Truth and Reconciliation Commission
This dissertation aims to put two seemingly stable and unchanging categories, namely the 'nation' and the 'body', into conversation with each other in order to interrogate how the disabled body, in particular, became a site for nation building in South Africa's transition from apartheid to democracy...
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| description | This dissertation aims to put two seemingly stable and unchanging categories, namely the 'nation' and the 'body', into conversation with each other in order to interrogate how the disabled body, in particular, became a site for nation building in South Africa's transition from apartheid to democracy in the 1990s. More specifically, this dissertation aims to explore how, framed by the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC), different bodies took on disparate meanings that both affirmed and challenged the emergence of the euphemistically termed, 'New Nation'. Relying on insights from disability studies, postcolonial scholarship and critical race and gender studies, this dissertation endeavours to interrogate how the emergent post-apartheid state relied on the collective memory and identity generated through particular ideas of violence and politics evidenced by the injured bodies on display at the TRC. Drawing on the TRC transcripts, the TRC Final Report and the Truth Commission Special Report coverage of the proceedings, this dissertation seeks to ask new questions about the shifting and uneven sites of embodied meaning-making in post-apartheid South Africa. |
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| spelling | oai:open.uct.ac.za:11427/20620 Politics and prosthesis : representing disability in South Africa's Truth and Reconciliation Commission Price, Neroli Field, Sean Kar, Bodhisattva Historical Studies This dissertation aims to put two seemingly stable and unchanging categories, namely the 'nation' and the 'body', into conversation with each other in order to interrogate how the disabled body, in particular, became a site for nation building in South Africa's transition from apartheid to democracy in the 1990s. More specifically, this dissertation aims to explore how, framed by the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC), different bodies took on disparate meanings that both affirmed and challenged the emergence of the euphemistically termed, 'New Nation'. Relying on insights from disability studies, postcolonial scholarship and critical race and gender studies, this dissertation endeavours to interrogate how the emergent post-apartheid state relied on the collective memory and identity generated through particular ideas of violence and politics evidenced by the injured bodies on display at the TRC. Drawing on the TRC transcripts, the TRC Final Report and the Truth Commission Special Report coverage of the proceedings, this dissertation seeks to ask new questions about the shifting and uneven sites of embodied meaning-making in post-apartheid South Africa. 2016-07-22T13:19:14Z 2016-07-22T13:19:14Z 2016 Master Thesis Masters MA http://hdl.handle.net/11427/20620 eng application/pdf Department of Historical Studies Faculty of Humanities University of Cape Town |
| spellingShingle | Historical Studies Price, Neroli Politics and prosthesis : representing disability in South Africa's Truth and Reconciliation Commission |
| thesis_degree_str | Master's |
| title | Politics and prosthesis : representing disability in South Africa's Truth and Reconciliation Commission |
| title_full | Politics and prosthesis : representing disability in South Africa's Truth and Reconciliation Commission |
| title_fullStr | Politics and prosthesis : representing disability in South Africa's Truth and Reconciliation Commission |
| title_full_unstemmed | Politics and prosthesis : representing disability in South Africa's Truth and Reconciliation Commission |
| title_short | Politics and prosthesis : representing disability in South Africa's Truth and Reconciliation Commission |
| title_sort | politics and prosthesis representing disability in south africa s truth and reconciliation commission |
| topic | Historical Studies |
| url | http://hdl.handle.net/11427/20620 |
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