Exorcising the demons within
Subtitle: xenophobia, violence and statecraft in contemporary South Africa
By: Editor, Loren B. Landau
Publisher: Wits University Press; published in North America and Europe by United Nations University Press
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Johannesburg; Tokyo; New York
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9789280812152
Subjects: Violence against; Xenophobia; Violence; Race relations; Immigrants; History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introducing the demons / Loren B. Landau; title: Media memory: a critical reconstruction of the May 2008 violence / Tamlyn Monson and Rebecca Arian; title: People, space and politics: an exploration of factors explaining the 2008 anti-foreigner violence in South Africa / Christine Fauvelle-Aymar and Aurelia Segatti; title: Disorder in a changing society: authority and the micro-politics of violence / Jean Pierre Misago; title: Xenophobia's local genesis: historical constructions of insiders and the politics of exclusion in Alexandra Township / Noor Nieftagodien; title: Citizenship, xenophobic violence and the law's dark side / Jonathan Klaaren; title: Taking out the trash? a "garbage can" model of immigration policing / Darshan Vigneswaran; title: Making the law, breaking the law, taking the law into our own hands: sovereignty and territorial control in three South African settlements / Tamlyn Monson; title: From defending migrant rights to new political subjectivities: Gauteng migrants' organisations after May 2008 / Tara Polzer and Aurelia Segatti; title: Postscript: positive values and the politics of outsiderness / Loren B. Landau.