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Record Nr.

UNINA9910460721203321

Titolo

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

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Johannesburg : , : Wits University Press

Tokyo ; ; New York : , : published in North America and Europe by United Nations University Press, , 2011

ISBN

1-86814-710-X

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (296 p.)

Disciplina

303.62086910968

Soggetti

Xenophobia - South Africa - History - 21st century

Immigrants - Violence against - South Africa

Violence - South Africa - History - 21st century

Electronic books.

South Africa Race relations 21st century

South Africa History 1994-

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

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.