Book Launch – States and the Making of Others – 29 July 2025
Perspectives on Social State Institutions and Othering in Southern Africa and Western Europe
Edited by Jeanne Bouyat, Amandine Le Bellec, Lucas Puygrenier.
2024, Palgrave Macmillan Cham
Book launch
Tuesday, 29 July
10am – 12pm
Boardroom of Cottage 3, Research village, University of Johannesburg
& Online (the Zoom meeting link will be sent the day before the event to those who RSVP)
RSVP here.
Editors Jeanne Bouyat (PACTE, Sciences Po Grenoble & SARChI Chair in Community, Adult and Worker Education, University of Johannesburg) and Lucas Puygranier (CMH, École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, Paris) will be in discussion with Thandi Gamedze (Desmond Tutu Centre for Religion and Social Justice, University of the Western Cape).
Chair: Salim Vally (SARChI Chair in Community, Adult and Worker Education, University of Johannesburg).
An event cohosted by SARChI Chair in Community, Adult and Worker Education (CAWE, University of Johannesburg) & IFAS-Research
About the 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.
Read an interview with the three coeditors about the book here.