Heribert Adam and Kogila Moodley: Imagined Liberation

<body bgcolor="#FFFFFF" text="#000000" link="#0000FF" vlink="#CC0000" alink="#CC0000"><center><hr width="350" size="1" align="center" noshade>A comparative examination of hostility towards migrants around the world<hr width="350" size="1" align="center" noshade><p><a href="https://cdcshoppingcart.uchicago.edu/Cart/ChicagoBook.aspx?ISBN=9781439911891&&PRESS=temple" target="_top">Buy this book!</a> | <a href="https://cdcshoppingcart.uchicago.edu/Cart/Cart.aspx?PRESS=temple" target="_top">View Cart</a> | <a href="https://cdcshoppingcart.uchicago.edu/Cart/Cart.aspx?PRESS=temple" target="_top">Check Out</a></p><p><img src="2341_reg.gif" height=200 border=1 vspace=4></p></center><h1>Imagined Liberation</h1> <H2>Xenophobia, Citizenship, and Identity in South Africa, Germany, and Canada</H2> <h3>Heribert Adam and Kogila Moodley</h3> <P>cloth 1-4399-1189-4 $89.50, May 15, <FONT COLOR=#990033>Available</FONT> <br>paper 1-4399-1190-8 $34.95, May 15, <FONT COLOR=#990033>Available</FONT> <br>Electronic Book 1-4399-1191-6 $34.95 <FONT COLOR=#990033>Available</FONT> <BR> 246 pp 6x9 </P><BLOCKQUOTE><I>"Adam and Moodley are exceptionally well equipped and also well placed to undertake the study on xenophobia. This book is novel because it focuses on xenophobia in the South African townships. </I>Imagined Liberation<I> makes a major contribution by summarizing and synthesizing the current literature in the West and by exploring the relevance of these perspectives to South Africa. The insightful analyses of the issues of xenophobia and immigrant policy in Canada and Germany spell out how a better understanding of the problem in South Africa could enhance the general understanding of it."</i> <br>&#151<b>Hermann Giliomee</b>, Professor Emeritus of Political Studies, University of Cape Town</I></BLOCKQUOTE> <P>On a spectrum of hostility towards migrants, South Africa ranks at the top, Germany in the middle and Canada at the bottom. South African xenophobic violence by impoverished slum dwellers is directed against fellow Africans. �Foreign� Africans are blamed for a high crime rate and most other maladies of an imagined liberation. <P>Why would a society that liberated itself in the name of human rights turn against people who escaped human rights violations or unlivable conditions at home? What happened to the expected African solidarity? Why do former victims become victimizers? <P>With porous borders, South Africa is incapable of upholding the blurred distinction between endangered refugees and economic migrants. <I>Imagined Liberation</I> asks what xenophobic societies can learn from other immigrant societies, such as Canada, that avoided the backlash against multiculturalism in Europe. Heribert Adam and Kogila Moodley stress an innovative teaching of political literacy that makes citizens aware as to why they hate. <BR> <h2>Excerpt</h2><P>Excerpt available at <a href="http://www.temple.edu/tempress">www.temple.edu/tempress</a></p> <BR> <h2>Reviews</h2> <p><i>"</i>Imagined Liberation<i> is an in-depth analysis of all that ails contemporary South Africa by two world-famous authors. This book is further enriched by their autobiographical statements which put their work into vivid perspective and provides both an insider's and an outsider's view of recent developments. Adam and Moodley put South Africa in a comparative context with other multiethnic societies, emphasizing both similarities and differences, and avoiding the pitfalls of both provincialism and historicism. </i>Imagined Liberation<i> provides critical, insightful, anguished, and yet unjaundiced and remarkably accurate, objective, and realistic assessment of South Africa's decline into massive corruption, inefficiency, police brutality, and moral bankruptcy by stressing the persistent, indeed widening, inequality by race and class which lies at the root of most current problems."</i><br>&#151<b>Pierre van den Berghe</b>, Emeritus Professor in the College of Arts and Sciences at the University of Washington <BR> <h2>Contents</h2><P> <p>Foreword <br>Acknowledgments <br>List of Abbreviations and Acronyms <p>Introduction <p><b>Part I: Integrating Difference</b> <p>1. Comparative Xenophobia <p>2. South African Perspectives on Xenophobia <p>3. Youth Voices <br><I>Aim and Methodology &#149 An Ethnography of Township Schools &#149 How Students View Foreigners</I> <p>4. Falling from Grace <br><I>Shift ing Views on �Mandelaland� &#149 Reflections on Mandela &#149 Patriarchy, Sexual Violence, and HIV/AIDS &#149 Crime and Punishment &#149 Corruption and Consumption &#149 Reracialization, Affirmative Action, and Black Economic Empowerment &#149 Descent into Zimbabwe? &#149 Popular Sentiment versus a Liberal Constitution</I> <p><b>Part II: Variations of Migration Policies: Africa, Germany, and Canada</b> <p>5. Settler Colonialism <br><I>Two Types of Colonialism &#149 Founding Myths and Intergroup Attitudes &#149 Metropolitan/Settler Relations</I> <p>6. Xenophobia in Germany <br><I>The Case of Roma/Sinti &#149 Muslims as Enemies &#149 Capitalist versus Communist Xenophobia &#149 Conclusion</I> <p>7. Multicultural Canada as an Alternative? <br><I>Canadian Identities and Cultural Traditions &#149 How to Select Immigrants &#149 Opportunistic Multiculturalism</I> <p><b>Part III: Political Literacy</b> <p>8. Xenophobia and Political Literacy <br><I>Comparing Political Education in Multiethnic Societies &#149 Political Literacy as Strategy to Combat Xenophobia &#149 Nation, Nationalism, Ethnicity, Ethnocentrism, and Critical Patriotism &#149 Cosmopolitan Consciousness</I> <p>9. Theorizing Xenophobia <p>Conclusion: Alternatives and Global Trends <p><b>Appendices</b> <br>Autobiography I: Navigating �Difference�: Insiders, Outsiders, and Contending Identities (Kogila Moodley) <br>Autobiography II: Controversies: Peacemaking in Divided Societies (Heribert Adam) <br>References <br>Index of Names </P><BR> <H2>About the Author(s)</H2> <P><b>Heribert Adam</b> is Professor Emeritus of Sociology at Simon Fraser University in Vancouver. Educated at the Frankfurt School of Critical Theory, he has published extensively on comparative ethnic conflicts and peacemaking, particularly socio-political developments in South Africa. He was awarded the 1998 Konrad Adenauer Prize of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation and elected Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada. He is the co-author of <i><a href="1813_reg.html" target="_top">Seeking Mandela: Peacemaking Between Israelis and Palestinians</a></i> (Temple).</P> <P><b>Kogila Moodley</b> is Professor Emerita, Educational Studies at the University of British Columbia, where she was the first holder of the David Lam Chair. Raised in the Indian community of apartheid South Africa, her research is focused on critical multiculturalism, anti-racism education and citizenship. She has served as President of the International Sociological Association�s Research Committee on Racism, Nationalism, and Ethnic Relations. 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