The 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 gathers a theoretical introductory chapter and 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 book provides 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.
The book was published in 2024 in the Sciences Po Series in International Relations and Political Economy, Palgrave Macmillan, and is edited by Jeanne Bouyat, Amandine Le Bellec and Lucas Puygrenier.
Here is a link to an interview with the three book editors introducing the key arguments of the book:
