ANTH 222 Lecture Notes - Lecture 21: Takers, Law Of Excluded Middle, Controlled Vocabulary

• School: McGill University
• Department: Anthropology
• Course: ANTH 222
• Professor: Ronald Niezen

Document Summary

Trauma, tesimony, and transiional jusice anth222 reading notes. The poliics of truth and reconciliaion in south africa. Public debate and opposiion to the truth-inding mandate of the trc. The conceptualizaion and formulaion of oicial truths, where disincions and asserions were made. Trc limitaions result from an over-legalisic perspecive and a staisical methodology which were not accompanied by a conceptual framework which could integrate and synthesize the massive amount of informaion. Trc was subordinated to the overriding naion building objecives of post-apartheid regime. South african trc had widest remit of any truth commission to date. Promoion of naional unity and reconciliaion act mandated the commission to invesigaing gross violaions of human rights: killing or severe ill treatment of a person, atempt to do this ^ Mahmood mamdani: opinion on commission is legalisic, obstructed the wider project o ensuring social jusice or many africans.