reblog: suren pillay on the scandal of xenophobia
Suren Pillay, Cape Town Guest Blogger The World Cup had just ended, and there were stories in the newspapers, telling us that foreign nationals were going to be killed as soon as the event was over. These stories immediately mobilized many of us in civil society, and it even mobilized the state into action. The army was deployed as a visible deterrent to prevent future attacks. Although I had read reports over the last ten years, and heard …
Throughout colonized Africa, indigeneity has become a politicized matter. The colonial state distributed rewards and punishment along these lines, turning where you came from into a political issue.
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Lets adapt Arendt to speak to our condition, to say that we are not talking about the rightless in this instance, but different ways in which rights are being engaged, claimed and protected. And that rather than between a first world and a third world, or a colonized and colonized, or developed and underdeveloped as different entities, were are talking about geographically proximate but economically, socially and culturally distinct communities of apartheid within the same state. … Read More
Bang on target again, Dr. Pillay.
Filed under: Africa, media, Political developments, Southern Africa | Closed
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- language and conquest: Jessica Louise Hall, ‘The language of conquest: The role of linguistic weaponisation in the establishment of settler colonial states’, The NORPAK Review, 1, 1, 2026, pp. 5-23
- The settler ecological class: Kusha Sefat, ‘The Ecological Class: Rethinking Hegemony through Indigenous Struggle and Settler Colonialism’, Sociological Theory, 2026
- The erosion of settler colonialism: Alyson Favilla, ‘Leave No Trace: A Review of Gina Caison’s Erosion: American Environments and the Anxiety of Disappearance’, Journal of Modern Literature, 49, 4, 2026, pp. 171-174
- Settler elegy: Anna Olovsdotter Lööv, Angelika Sjöstedt, ‘Telling Settler Stories: Heteronormativity and Settler Time in the Media Narrative of a Project Responding to the “Death of the Countryside”‘, NORA – Nordic Journal of Feminist and Gender Research, 2026
- Desert settler empire: Philip Wade, Cracks in the Desert Hegemonic Space and Indigenous Resistance in the Borderlands of Northern Patagonia, PhD dissertation, University of Gothenburg, 2026
- Inland settler empire: Manuel Shvartzberg Carrió, Inland Empire: Settler Colonialism and Modern Architecture in Southern California, Duke University Press, 2026
- Orange settlers: Tiago Saraiva, The Orchard in the Ruins: Cloning Oranges and Cultivating Whiteness in America and the Global South, University of Chicago Press, 2026
- Three knights of the settler apocalypse: Jan H. Pranger, Christianity, Settler Colonialism, and Extractivism, Bloomsbury, 2026
- Belabouring the labour of Palestinian labour: Anonymous, ‘Superfluous Labor: The Settler Colonial “Turn” in the Study of Palestine’, Qui Parle (2026) 35, 1, 2026, pp. 121-163
- Biopolitical settler colonialism: Dawit Tesfay Haile, ‘Settler colonial biopolitics at the border: a transnational entanglement of law, medical sciences, and migration control at Ellis Island’, Settler Colonial Studies, 2026
- At this point we should not ‘care’: Girish Daswani, ‘How Anthropology Can Harm Students During a Genocide’, American Anthropologist, 2026
- What settler colonialism therefore produces, above all, are its own grave diggers: Janna Lynell Martin Rogers, Human Categorization: A History of Race Science and Trafficking Indigenous Remains’, MA dissertation, Oklahoma State University, 2027
- Settler colonialism as peer review: Nimrod Lin, ‘Zionist comparisons to settler colonies before 1948’, Settler Colonial Studies, 2026
- The monogamous settler: T. J. Tallie, Conjugal States: The Queerness of Nonmonogamy in Settler Worlds, University of Minnesota Press, 2027
- Indigenous peoples define health as self-determination (I know, right?): Laura Gemmell-Sinnott, Miriam Laugesen, Robin Quigg, ‘How do Indigenous peoples define health? A systematic review of definitions across Aotearoa New Zealand, Australia, Canada, and the United States’, Qualitative Research in Health, 2026, #100874
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