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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- „... apologies2. 24 Collective apologies3. 26 “Successful” apologies4. 28 Content4.1. 28 Actors4.2. 30 Context4.3 ...” „... closing3.3 219 Conclusion4. 221 The Power of Rituals of ApologiesVIII. 223 The ceremonial inventory of ...” „... political apologies in international relations Michel-André Horelt A performance approach to the ...”
- „... questioned whether collective apologies are per se normatively war‐ ranted and under which conditions ...” „... commentators have inter‐ preted the distinctive meaning of collective apologies to lie in its inward ...” „... ; Andrieu 2009). Others still have contested the possibility of genuine collective apologies and castigated ...”
- „... the representative capacity in the deliverance of collective apologies in order to be forceful. As ...” „... collective apologies the value of symbolic action has all too often been reduced ei‐ ther to questions of ...” „... changed relationships. In order to create this transformation collective apologies need a ceremonial frame ...”
- „... the question of what renders collective apologies meaningful. As the follow‐ ing chapters will ...” „... apologies see the inflation of apologies as the normative progression of human and collective rights in ...” „... demonstrate, the practice of state apologies in global po‐ litics is characterized by ‘carefully staged ...”
- „... “Holocaust” from War Crime to Trauma Drama, in: Alexander, Jeffrey C. (Ed.): Cultural trauma and collective ...” „... Genocide’: How Public Apologies Can Help Pro‐ mote National Reconciliation, Millennium – Journal of ...” „... Imperative, in: Barkan, Elazar/Karn, Alexander (eds.): Taking wrongs seriously. Apologies and reconciliation ...”
- „... numerous apologies for Japanese war atrocities perpetrat‐ ed during World War II in different forms ...” „... issue in analyzing the rhetorical short‐ comings of these apologies. In the last few decades a plethora ...” „... wordings of Japanese apologies in order to demonstrate which linguistic elements rendered these apologies ...”
- „... . Festivals of apology – The Australian and Canadian child removal apologies 124 However, the collective ...” „... Festivals of apology – The Australian and Canadian child removal apologies This chapter analyses ...” „... crimes in question and how requests for a collective apology gained currency throughout the years in the ...”
- „... demonstrate that collective apologies may work solely III. 1. 84 due to the symbolic form of their ...” „... presentation of collective apologies symbolic gestures may speak louder than words. In addition to the strength ...” „... focus of this chapter, since it demonstrated how ‘silent’ apologies may work. Moreover the prostration ...”
- „... characterizations were provided by representatives and are analysed as responses to apologies in the following. This ...” „... chapter will present three apologies that were delivered in the former Yugoslavia; it starts with the ...” „... categorical apologies in pure‐ ly linguistic terms. Nevertheless, the linguistic insufficiencies and qualifi ...”