Exorcising the demons within : xenophobia, violence and statecraft in contemporary South Africa /

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Other Authors: Landau, Loren B. (Loren Brett) (Editor)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Johannesburg : Tokyo ; New York : Wits University Press ; published in North America and Europe by United Nations University Press, 2011.
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Table of Contents:
  • Introducing the demons / Loren B. Landau
  • Media memory: a critical reconstruction of the May 2008 violence / Tamlyn Monson and Rebecca Arian
  • People, space and politics: an exploration of factors explaining the 2008 anti-foreigner violence in South Africa / Christine Fauvelle-Aymar and Aurelia Segatti
  • Disorder in a changing society: authority and the micro-politics of violence / Jean Pierre Misago
  • Xenophobia's local genesis: historical constructions of insiders and the politics of exclusion in Alexandra Township / Noor Nieftagodien
  • Citizenship, xenophobic violence and the law's dark side / Jonathan Klaaren
  • Taking out the trash? a "garbage can" model of immigration policing / Darshan Vigneswaran
  • Making the law, breaking the law, taking the law into our own hands: sovereignty and territorial control in three South African settlements / Tamlyn Monson
  • From defending migrant rights to new political subjectivities: Gauteng migrants' organisations after May 2008 / Tara Polzer and Aurelia Segatti
  • Postscript: positive values and the politics of outsiderness / Loren B. Landau.