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States and the Making of Others

Perspectives on Social State Institutions and Othering in Southern Africa and Western Europe

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  • Jun 2024

Overview

  • Offers a unique interdisciplinary perspective on contemporary state institutions and processes of othering
  • Is empirically grounded in various domains of the ‘social state’ in Southern African and Western European contexts
  • Creates a framework that enables us to understand the similarities and singularities of various forms of othering

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Keywords

  • othering
  • social state
  • race
  • migration
  • South Africa
  • Western Europe
  • state formation
  • LGBTQI+

About this book

This volume offers a unique interdisciplinary and comparative perspective on contemporary processes of othering by state institutions in relation to dynamics of racism, xenophobia, sexism, homo-transphobia, as well as ethnic- and class-based discriminations. It focuses on eight original case studies empirically grounded in various domains of the ‘social state’, in Southern African and Western European contexts: the education and health care systems, the regulation of work and of procreation rights, and institutions in charge of granting asylum. The authors provide key insights on how states produce Others, and on how othering contributes in turn to the process of state formation and the politicization of public action.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Center for International Studies, Sciences Po, BARBEZIEUX ST HILAIRE, France

    Jeanne Bouyat

  • Center for International Studies, Sciences Po, ST MARTIN DE LONDRES, France

    Amandine Le Bellec

  • CERI, Sciences Po), Paris, France

    Lucas Puygrenier

About the editors

Jeanne Bouyat is Postdoctoral Researcher at the Centre for Education Rights and Transformation (CERT) at the University of Johannesburg, South Africa as well as Research Fellow at the Institute Convergences Migrations (ICM, CNRS) and the Center for International Studies (CERI) at Sciences Po, France.  

Amandine Le Bellec is Associate Researcher at Sciences Po Paris Center for Political Research (CEVIPOF), France.

Lucas Puygrenier is Lecturer at CERAPS, University of Lille and Associate Researcher at CERI, Sciences Po, France.

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: States and the Making of Others

  • Book Subtitle: Perspectives on Social State Institutions and Othering in Southern Africa and Western Europe

  • Editors: Jeanne Bouyat, Amandine Le Bellec, Lucas Puygrenier

  • Series Title: The Sciences Po Series in International Relations and Political Economy

  • Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham

  • eBook Packages: Political Science and International Studies, Political Science and International Studies (R0)

  • Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2024

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-031-59658-2Due: 04 July 2024

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-031-59661-2Due: 04 July 2024

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-031-59659-9Due: 04 July 2024

  • Series ISSN: 2945-607X

  • Series E-ISSN: 2945-6088

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XIV, 217

  • Number of Illustrations: 3 b/w illustrations

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