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chiere, Department of African Anthropology, University of Amsterdam
EXORCISING
s critical of the policies, practices and politics of containment that continue to frame in post-apartheid South Africa in an era of flexible mobility. The dominant logic of ishing circles of inclusion informed by hierarchies of humanity within and between roductive of the sort of narrow articulation of belonging that easily results in the tion of difference, demonisation, xenophobia and violence such as that of May 2008 vent that ties together this richly crafted, well documented and empirically grounded of essays.
Nyamnjoh, Department of Sociology, University of Cape Town
EXORCISING DEMONS
DEMONS
2008, residents of Alexandra Township near Johannesburg turned violently on their s, launching a string of attacks that, two weeks later, left 60 dead, dozens raped hundred thousand displaced. Most of those killed were from beyond South Africa’s ut at least a third were citizens who, for reasons of ethnicity or political affiliation, otect their space in the country’s urban core. Although not the most severe political n South Africa’s turbulent past, the 2008 attacks reflect an important moment in y’s post-apartheid, post-authoritarian existence: a moment when the government’s and the post-apartheid order were called into question. This xenophobic violence ent cracks in the cohesion of law and society while helping to redefine both.
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events and subsequent consequences for the ordering of power, population and this book explores. Exorcising the Demons Within makes sense of recent antiiolence by situating it within an extended history of South African statecraft that uced the conditions for the attacks and has been reshaped by it. Drawing on an linary team of expert scholars and on new research, this is the first academic text eorise the events that made global headlines in 2008.
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