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Instead, it upholds the language of reconciliation for strategic, rather than essential, reasons.

It does not, however, presume to correct the contradictions that have done so much to corrupt the concept in recent decades. As such, this study lobbies for an expanded approach to the country’s formal transition from apartheid in order to grapple with reconciliation’s ongoing potential within the contemporary imaginary. It is both a lament for the promise, since lost, with which non-racial democracy was inaugurated and, more substantially, a space within which to consider its possible renewal. Improvising Reconciliation is prompted by South Africa’s enduring state of injustice. An Open Access edition of this book will be made available on the Liverpool University Press website and the OAPEN library on publication.