States and the Making of Others: Perspectives on Social State Institutions and Othering in Southern Africa and Western Europe (The Sciences Po Series in International Relations and Political Economy)

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.

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.