Dramas of Reconciliation: A Performance Approach to the Analysis of Political Apologies in International Relations - Softcover

Horelt, Michel-Andre

 
9783848720989: Dramas of Reconciliation: A Performance Approach to the Analysis of Political Apologies in International Relations
Softcover
ISBN 10: 3848720981 ISBN 13: 9783848720989
Publisher: Nomos Verlagsgesellschaft, 2018

Synopsis

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.

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Publisher
Nomos Verlagsgesellschaft
Publication date
2018
Language
English
ISBN 10 
3848720981
ISBN 13 
9783848720989
Binding
Paperback
Number of pages
262