14 research outputs found
Covering Migration—in Africa and Europe: Results from a Comparative Analysis of 11 Countries
Hydrochlorothiazide use and risk of nonmelanoma skin cancer: AÂ nationwide case-control study from Denmark
Ultrastructural Differentiation of Epidermolysis Bullosa Subtypes and Porphyria Cutanea Tarda
A Randomized Clinical Trial Comparing Three Different Exercise Strategies for Optimizing Aerobic Capacity and Skeletal Muscle Performance in Older Adults: Protocol for the DART Study
Postcolonial violence: Narrating South Africa, May 2008
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