Postcolonial violence: narrating South Africa, May 2008

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dc.contributor.author	Sandwith, Corinne	-
dc.date.accessioned	2011-02-12T13:37:48Z	-
dc.date.available	2011-02-12T13:37:48Z	-
dc.date.issued	2011-02-12	-
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/10071/2217	-
dc.description.abstract	The violent attacks on immigrants in May and June 2008 laid bare some of the contradictions of the South African postcolony. Focusing on the vigorous public debate which arose in the aftermath of violence, this essay explores a moment of interpretive crisis in which the privileged stories of the nation were unexpectedly unravelled. From there, it moves to a discussion of the political investments at stake in the government’s choice of the ‘crime story’ as dominant interpretive scheme, giving particular emphasis to what this revealed about national myth-making, the production of consensus and modalities of power in the postcolonial state.	por
dc.language.iso	eng	por
dc.rights	openAccess	por
dc.subject	South African postcolony	por
dc.subject	Violence	por
dc.subject	Criminality	por
dc.subject	Xenophobia	por
dc.title	Postcolonial violence: narrating South Africa, May 2008	por
dc.type	conferenceObject	por
dc.event.title	7º Congresso Ibérico de Estudos Africanos	por
dc.event.type	Congresso	por
dc.event.location	Lisboa	por
dc.event.date	9 a 11 de Setembro de 2010	por
dc.publicationstatus	Não publicado	por
dc.peerreviewed	Não	por
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