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

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Landau, Loren B. (Loren Brett), editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Xenophobia--South Africa--History--21st century.

Xenophobia.

Immigrants--Violence against--South Africa.

Immigrants.

Violence--South Africa--History--21st century.

Violence.

South Africa--Race relations--21st century.

South Africa.

South Africa--History--1994-.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (296 p.)

Place of Publication:

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

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.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-86814-710-X

OCLC:

951037163