Exorcising the demons within : xenophobia, violence and statecraft in contemporary South Africa / editor, Loren B. Landau.

Format
Book
Language
English
Published/​Created
Johannesburg : Wits University Press ; Tokyo ; New York : published in North America and Europe by United Nations University Press, 2011.
Description
xii, 275 p. ; 23 cm.

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Subject(s)
Bibliographic references
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
ISBN
  • 9789280812152 (pbk.)
  • 9280812157 (pbk.)
  • 9781868145355 (pbk. : Wits)
  • 1868145352 (pbk. : Wits)
LCCN
2012002075
OCLC
774982509
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