Politics and prosthesis : representing disability in South Africa's Truth and Reconciliation Commission

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dc.contributor.advisorField, Seanen_ZA
dc.contributor.advisorKar, Bodhisattvaen_ZA
dc.contributor.authorPrice, Nerolien_ZA
dc.date.accessioned2016-07-22T13:19:14Z
dc.date.available2016-07-22T13:19:14Z
dc.date.issued2016en_ZA
dc.description.abstractThis 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.en_ZA
dc.identifier.apacitationPrice, N. (2016). <i>Politics and prosthesis : representing disability in South Africa's Truth and Reconciliation Commission</i>. (Thesis). University of Cape Town ,Faculty of Humanities ,Department of Historical Studies. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/11427/20620en_ZA
dc.identifier.chicagocitationPrice, Neroli. <i>"Politics and prosthesis : representing disability in South Africa's Truth and Reconciliation Commission."</i> Thesis., University of Cape Town ,Faculty of Humanities ,Department of Historical Studies, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/20620en_ZA
dc.identifier.citationPrice, N. 2016. Politics and prosthesis : representing disability in South Africa's Truth and Reconciliation Commission. University of Cape Town.en_ZA
dc.identifier.ris TY - Thesis / Dissertation AU - Price, Neroli AB - 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. DA - 2016 DB - OpenUCT DP - University of Cape Town LK - https://open.uct.ac.za PB - University of Cape Town PY - 2016 T1 - Politics and prosthesis : representing disability in South Africa's Truth and Reconciliation Commission TI - Politics and prosthesis : representing disability in South Africa's Truth and Reconciliation Commission UR - http://hdl.handle.net/11427/20620 ER - en_ZA
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/11427/20620
dc.identifier.vancouvercitationPrice N. Politics and prosthesis : representing disability in South Africa's Truth and Reconciliation Commission. [Thesis]. University of Cape Town ,Faculty of Humanities ,Department of Historical Studies, 2016 [cited yyyy month dd]. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/11427/20620en_ZA
dc.language.isoengen_ZA
dc.publisher.departmentDepartment of Historical Studiesen_ZA
dc.publisher.facultyFaculty of Humanitiesen_ZA
dc.publisher.institutionUniversity of Cape Town
dc.subject.otherHistorical Studiesen_ZA
dc.titlePolitics and prosthesis : representing disability in South Africa's Truth and Reconciliation Commissionen_ZA
dc.typeMaster Thesis
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