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Articles from Acta Academica: Critical views on society, culture and politics

Thinking about keywords, and mapping theory

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Right now: contemporary forms of far-right populism and fascism in the Global South

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Introduction to the special issue: xenophobia in Africa

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Rethinking the boundaries of self-Other and the logics of de/coloniality in Harare North and One Foreigner’s Ordeal: a decolonial perspective

<jats:p>The African fictive landscape has been occupied with the subject of self-Other boundary in the context of xenophobia, geopolitics, racist tradition and migration, yet the topic has remai...
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Xenophobia and the challenge of regional integration in Africa: understanding three cardinal dynamics

<jats:p> While the literature on xenophobia views the phenomenon as a major challenge to the regional integration of Africa, the key nuances about how xenophobia affects regional integration, ...
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Reconceptualising Afrophobia in post-apartheid South Africa: a conflict transformational perspective

<jats:p>Xenophobic violence has assumed a regular appearance in the body politic of South Africa. Such xenophobia/racism is mainly targeted at migrants from elsewhere in Africa. The phenomenon f...
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Neither here nor there: exploring the transnational identity of West African migrants living in South Africa

<jats:p>Xenophobia as a form of othering manifests differently in varying contexts, and against the backdrop of globalisation, the nature of migration and societal integration of foreigners has ...
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Twitter and the politics of representation in South Africa and Zimbabwe’s xenophobic narratives during the covid-19 pandemic

<jats:p>The article analyses xenophobic narratives on Twitter in South Africa and Zimbabwe during the Covid-19 pandemic from March 2020 to July 2021. The study uncovers the politics of represent...
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