Exorcising the Demons Within; Xenophobia, Violence and Statecraft in contemporary South Africa
in
February 22, 2012 - 17:30
Location: 
Kutlwanong Democracy Centre, 357 Visagie Street (Cnr. Prinsloo), Pretoria
Speaker(s): 
Honourable P. Mashatile, Chairperson ANC Gauteng and Minister of the Department of Arts and Culture; Nomboniso Gasa, Researcher and Political Analyst at PNG Services and Associates; Andile Mngxithama, Activist and Journalist; Prof. Loren Landau, Director of the African Centre for Migration & Society of Wits University
Exorcising the Demons Within makes sense of the recent anti-outsider violence by situating it within an extended history of South African statecraft that both produced the conditions for the attacks and has been reshaped by it. Through its subtle, empirical and theoretically informed analysis, the book reshapes discussions of xenophobia and violence in South Africa while injecting local debates into global considerations of the meaning of citizenship and the post-colonial state.