1. Xenophobia Diversity Literacy Week 10 / Lecture 2 Prepared by Claire Kelly

2.  Insert: image of Ernesto Nhamuave  http://www.newzimbabwe.com/pix/xenophobicatt acks.jpg http://www.newzimbabwe.com/pix/xenophobicatt acks.jpg Prepared by Claire Kelly

3. Who, exactly, is a South African? (Comaroff & Comaroff, p. 650) Prepared by Claire Kelly

4. Constructing “the self”  “ Scripting ” the national identity (Ari Sitas)  “…language can be inflected to brutalise or achieve it’s inverse and open up possibilities…” (Gqola, p. 210)  The contradictions of the post-colonial state formation (Comaroff & Comaroff)  Homogeneity as “ national fantasy ”  Symbolic activity & mass-mediated ritual excess as “nation building”  “…the salience of autochthony as naturalising allegory of collective being in the world” (Comaroff & Comaroff, p. 648) Prepared by Claire Kelly

5. Constructing “the other” “Why this harrasment of strangers? It’s not as if they are guilty of the rape, murder, hijacking and bank robberies that south Africans perpetrate on each other?”  “… stories of ethnicities code tensions …” (ibid.)  “…flora signify what politics struggle to name” > “…infrastructure of of popular consciousness under construction…” (Comaroff & Comaroff, p. 645.  “ the right kind of migrants ” (ibid.)  The persisting logics of race, xenophobia or negrophobia? (ibid. & Gqola) Prepared by Claire Kelly

6. “….there are throw away people. These are people who do not matter, whose humanity, once successfully misrecognised, renders them safe to violate.” (Gqola, p. 211) Prepared by Claire Kelly

7. “Faces of the Enemy” “Before we make war we make an idea of an enemy” Sam Keen  Insert: Sam Keen’s “Faces of the Enemy” preview  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JDq2Ja3DlGg http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JDq2Ja3DlGg Prepared by Claire Kelly

8.  Insert: ADL’s Pyramid of Hate  http://www.sdb.k12.wi.us/mcneel/holocaust/scan00 05.jpg Prepared by Claire Kelly

9. Extra references  Sitas, A. (2010) The Mandela Decade 1990 – 2000: Labour, Culture and Society in Post-Apartheid South Africa. Pretoria: UNISA PRESS & Brill. Imagined South Africa Book Series