Category / Journal Articles
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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.
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Who to Blame and What’s to Gain? Reflections on Space, State, and Violence in Kenya and South Africa
In both countries, (Kenya and South Africa) the police’s inability or unwillingness to stem the violence raised the question of “who controls the streets?” Answering this question means addressing what contemporary ethnic and xenophobic violence says about the nature of African society and states, as well as the security of those ostensibly depending on them for protection. This article was written by Professor Loren Landau and Dr. Jean Pierre Misago.
