Search Results for xenophobic violence

...Ruchi Chaturvedi Abstract This essay revolves around different types of violence witnessed in political society and their relationship to the democratic form that many postcolonial states have inherited. It especially draws on studies of popular protests, negrophobic and xenophobic violence against...

...Neville Hoad This essay analyzes Lauren Beukes's 2010 novel, Zoo City , as a complicated set of allegories of environmental disaster, HIV/AIDS, xenophobic violence, and contemporary African identity. It argues that Zoo City , as a speculative fiction of sorts, is deeply informed by South African...

... shifts our focus to an urban context and analyzes Lauren Beukes’s dystopian speculative fiction novel Zoo City and its allegories of environmental disaster, HIV/AIDS, xenophobic violence, and belonging. Clare Counihan’s interview with artist Nomusa Makhubu reflects on the role of the artist...

...Beverly M. Weber Fereshta Ludin’s struggle to be appointed as a public school teacher while wearing a hijab received massive media attention in Germany, while the xenophobically motivated murder of Marwa el-Sherbini, who was eventually dubbed the “ hijab martyr” internationally, elicited muted...

... Studies 42 , no. 12 ( 2005 ): 2305 – 20 . Hassim Shireen Kupe Tawana Worby Eric , eds. Go Home or Die Here: Violence, Xenophobia, and the Reinvention of Difference in South Africa . Johannesburg : Wits University Press , 2008 . Landau Loren B. , ed. Exorcising...

..., security, and demography in the wake of the January 7, 2015, terrorist attack in Paris as well as a continent-wide refugee crisis. It built on a longer history of anxiety about the assimilation of Muslims from the Middle East and Africa. The ambient xenophobic response, which collapsed and confused migrant...

..., “Secularism and Its Discontents,” Violence in Contemporary India (Seattle: University Ethnic and Racial Studies 20 (1997): 325 – 44. See p. 327 in Secularism and Its Critics, ed. Rajiv Bhargava (New of Washington Press, 2003); Anthony D. Smith, “To- for this particular quote. Delhi: Oxford University...

..., emancipation and subsequent placencies of theory; his contribution is based South Africa assimilation brought with them increased acts on the keynote address he delivered at that con- East of violence against Jews in Germany during the ference. Several of the other...

... world today. the around Islam of name the in Muslims by committed violence onthe playing Prophet—several the of cartoons twelve response in received and Muhammad of fordepictions asking artists forty Denmark, in newspaper largest the speech—and free to athreat...

...- In South Asia one of the most discussed topics among ceive, the sexism in the media and the textbooks, violence intellectuals and activists in recent decades has been the against women both in the home and at the place of work “failure” of the Left to capture state power, and the and exposing...

... to the rising drumbeat of xenophobic reactions against those seeking protection. The European Commission's decision to adopt the “hot spot approach” in constructing refugee centers on various Greek islands (especially Leros) thus served to reanimate a tragic history of governing people in need of care...

... on Contemporary Art and Criticism 27 , no. 3 ( 2013 ): 415 – 18 . ———. “Violence and the Cultural Logics of Pain: Representations of Sexuality in the Work of Nicholas Hlobo and Zanele Muholi.” Critical Arts: South-North Cultural and Media Studies 26 , no. 4 ( 2012 ): 504 – 24 . Malatjie...

... diasporic Left that included many ISA activists, for its failure to fully embrace and support that uprising and its demands. Despite some condemnations from a few leftist groups, including the Fadaiyan, of the vigilante violence that was unleashed against protesting women, Moradian detects a leftist...

... generative: “an essential dimension of the world, society and the soul” that must be affirmed against xenophobic populism and Salafism alike. 47 The very centrality of absence in regional thought and art rebuffs critiques that to think absence beyond material violence is to dabble in abstraction. 48...

... not to re- Migrants’ nongovernmental organizations turn is justified by certain factors such as citizen- (NGO) and working groups on migration high- ship, better future prospects in the host country, light the xenophobic attitudes toward migrants...

... Mmatshilo . The Kanga and the Kangaroo Court: Reflections on the Rape Trial of Jacob Zuma . Cape Town : Jacana , 2007 . Posel Deborah . “The Scandal of Manhood: ‘Baby Rape’ and the Politicization of Sexual Violence in Post-Apartheid South Africa.” Culture, Health, and Sexuality 7...

... language, ethnic- nally, I argue that even within the realm of nation- ity, and religion were assumed to be consistent and alism, the picture of nationalists clinging solely grounded within the geography of the nation-­state. to xenophobic visions of the past may obfuscate As such, Indian nationalists...

... “Asian presence” among indigenous Ugandans: culturalist and Orientalist explanations for violence against women, excoriating anti-Asian sentiment, and nativist/xenophobic sentiments against foreign presence in general. 40 Do these moments of racial and gendered tensions, emergent political...

...- without violence. Its prototypes are the ethno- guage should make it possible to combine in a mu- nationalist movements of central and Eastern tually enriching manner the advantages of positivist Europe and of the former Soviet Union. In the and Marxist procedures. It also gets us away from...

... the continued useful- northern and southern Yemen as well as from ness of the term through the rise of xenophobic   their twentieth-­century successor states. More- politics, anti-­Arab and Islamophobic pressures, of over, these different...