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Note publique d'information : Cultured Violence explores contemporary South African culture as a test case for the
achievement of democracy by constitutional means in the wake of prolonged and violent
conflict. The book addresses key ethical issues, normally addressed from within the
discourses of law, the social sciences, and health sciences, through narrative analysis.
The book draws from and juxtaposes narratives of profoundly different kinds to make
its point: fictional narratives, such as the work of Nobel laureate J.M. Coetzee;
public testimony, such as that of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission, and Jacob
Zuma’s (the former Deputy President’s) 2006 trial on charges of rape; and personal
testimony, drawn from interviews undertaken by the author over the past ten years
in South Africa. These narratives are analysed in order to demonstrate the different
ways in which they illuminate the cultural “state of the nation”: ways that elude
descriptions of South African subjects undertaken from within discourses that have
a historical tendency to ignore cultural dimensions of lived experience and their
material particularity. The implications of these lived experiences of culture are
underlined by the book’s focus on the violation of human rights as comprising practices
that are simultaneously discursive and material. Cases of such violations, all drawn
from the South African context, include humans’ use of non-human animals as instruments
of violence against other humans; the constructed marginalization and vulnerability
of women and children; and the practice of stigma in the context of the HIV/AIDS epidemic
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