Dramas of Reconciliation
A performance approach to the analysis of political apologies in international relations
Zusammenfassung
Politische Entschuldigungen gelten als modernes politisches Bußritual. Bis heute hat sich die Forschung jedoch nicht dem Ritualhaften in den Darbietungen politischer Entschuldigungshandlungen ernsthaft gewidmet. Dieses Buch schafft Abhilfe.
Im Gegensatz zu sprach-analytischen Ansätzen, die die positive Wirkung von Entschuldigungen in ihrer sprachlichen Gestalt verorten, fundiert dieses Buch die Wirkmächtigkeit von politischen Entschuldigungen im Ritus selbst. Bezugnehmend auf die Ritualforschung demonstriert dieses Buch, welche übergangsrituellen Bezüge sich in politischen Entschuldigungen zeigen, wie repräsentative Akteure sakrale Symbole in Entschuldigungszeremonien aktivieren und wie durch Riten außergewöhnliche Momente der Versöhnung geschaffen werden. Basierend auf einer diskursanalytischen Methodik werden erfolgreiche und misslingende Entschuldigungshandlungen einer dichten empirischen Analyse unterzogen und die Potenziale und Grenzen ritualhafter Darbietungen präsentiert.
Abstract
Political apologies have been described as modern political rites. However, the scholarship has failed so far to take the ritualistic elements in apologies seriously. This book addresses this lacuna. Contrary to linguistic approaches that locate the transformative power of apologies in correct wording, this book grounds the force of apologies in ritual performances. Drawing on ritual theory the book reveals how apology performances bear characteristics of rites of transitions. This book lays down the ritual features that enwrap apologies, demonstrates how apologizing agents activate sacred symbols in apology ceremonies, and how rites as a distinct mode of social communication may create extra-ordinary moments of transition. Based on a discourse analytical methodology, the study analyses several apology performances for historic crimes and discloses the potentials and the limits of rituals of apologies.
Schlagworte
Festival collective apologies apology research rituals human rights apology performance- Kapitel Ausklappen | EinklappenSeiten
- 21–54 I. Introduction 21–54
- 132–152 V. Katyn N° 2 132–152
- 253–262 IX. Literature 253–262
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- „... to be “crucial” or the “main issue” in apology deliverances (Löwenheim 2009: 538, 554). Researchers ...” „... . Lacunae in apology research In accordance to the three conceptual categories of content, actors, and ...” „... apologies tends to omit. 2. Lacunae in apology research 37 Rituals are thus invoked synonymously with unreal ...”
- „... . 32 Lacunae in apology research2. 33 Taking rituals seriously3. 38 Rituals of apologies as liminal ...” „... – desperately searching a presentable research puzzle at the time – I stumbled over this eye-opening perspective ...” „... its appropriate format. I want to thank also all the other participants of the Monday evening research ...”
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- „... of this research, it is important to mention that critics of Murayama’s apology raised suspicions ...” „... “Bowing alone”: An analysis of failed Japanese apology presentations Introduction Japan has issued ...” „... of Japanese apologies is not only tied to the ambiguous and opaque wording of Japanese apology ...”
- „... Festivals of apology – The Australian and Canadian child removal apologies This chapter analyses ...” „... recent apology performances in Australia and Cana‐ da that were enacted in order to address the painful ...” „... apology performance. All the men‐ tioned components – the spatial context of a live broadcast of an ...”
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