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

Contributor(s): Landau, Loren B. (Loren Brett) [editor.]Material type: TextTextPublisher: Johannesburg : Tokyo ; New York : Wits University Press ; published in North America and Europe by United Nations University Press, 2011Description: 1 online resource (290 pages)Content type: text Media type: computer Carrier type: online resourceISBN: 9781868147106Subject(s): Xenophobia -- South Africa -- History -- 21st century | Immigrants -- Violence against -- South Africa | Violence -- South Africa -- History -- 21st century | South Africa -- Race relations -- 21st century | South Africa -- History -- 1994-Genre/Form: Electronic books.DDC classification: 303.62086910968 LOC classification: JV8825.2 | .E96 2011Online resources: Click to View
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.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

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.

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