Category / Journal Articles
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Politics by Other Means? The Political Economy of Xenophobic Violence in Post- Apartheid South Africa
Written by Dr. Jean Pierre Misago, this article discusses xenophobic violence in post-apartheid South Africa.
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Local Politics of Xenophobia
Written by Caitlin Blaser Mapitsa this article explores how xenophobia is being produced by local governance processes and structures.
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Responding to Xenophobic Violence in Post -Apartheid South Africa: Barking Up the Wrong Tree?
Written by Dr. Jean Pierre Misago, this paper highlights the general failure to effectively respond to and prevent xenophobic violence in South Africa and offers critical reflections on reasons thereof.
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Introduction of xenophobia and citizenship: the everyday politics of exclusion and inclusion in Africa
Written by Laurent Fourchard and Aurelia Segatti this article in an introduction to xenophobia and citizenship, and more specifically the everyday politics of exclusion and inclusion in Africa
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Tactical Cosmopolitanism and Idioms of Belonging: Insertion and Self-Exclusion in Johannesburg
This paper, written by Professor Loren Landau and Iriann Freemantle, contributes to the emerging literature on cosmopolitanism ‘from below’, conceptualized not as a philosophy but as a practice and form of experiential culture.
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Loving the Alien? Citizenship, Law, and the Future in South Africa’s Demonic Society
This article written by Professor Loren Landau makes sense of the violence with reference to an extended history of South African statecraft that both induced the conflict and hamstrung efforts to address it.