Go home or die here
Subtitle: violence, xenophobia and the reinvention of difference in South Africa
By: edited by Shireen Hassim, Tawana Kupe and Eric Worby ; photographs by Alon Skuy ; foreword by Paul Verryn.
Contributors: Hassim, Shireen.; Kupe, Tawana.; Worby, Eric.
Publisher: Wits University Press
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Johannesburg
Language: eng
Number of pages: 259
ISBN-13: 9781868144877
Subjects: Xenophobia -- South Africa -- History -- 21st century; Violence -- South Africa -- History -- 21st century; Immigrants -- Violence against -- South Africa; Human rights -- South Africa; South Africa -- Race relations -- 21st century
Description: "On 28 May 2008 the Faculty of Humanities in the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg convened an urgent colloquium that focused on searching for short- and long-term solutions. Nearly 20 individuals - mostly Wits academics from a variety of disciplines, but also two student leaders, a journalist and a bishop - addressed the unfolding violence in ways that were conversant with the moment, yet rooted in scholarship and ongoing research." "Go Home or Die Here emanates directly from the colloquium. It hopes to make sense of the nuances and trajectories of building a democratic society out of a deeply divided and conflictual past, in the conditions of global recession, heightening inequalities and future uncertainty."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.