The Paradox of Planetary Human Entanglements provides a nuanced understanding of the complexity of planetary human entanglements in this age of increased borderisation and territorialisation, racism and xenophobia, and inclusion and exclusion.
Will be of interest to international organisations and policymakers as well as students and academics.
Builds on a well-established discourse on the international migration conundrum and borderization, with most of the empirical evidence embedded mainly in the African experience.
Inocent Moyo is an Associate Professor in the Department of Geography and Environmental Studies at the University of Zululand, South Africa. He researches borders, migration, and the political economy of the informal economy in the Southern African region.
Sabelo J. Ndlovu-Gatsheni is Research Chair in Epistemologies of the Global South at the University of Bayreuth, Germany. He is a prominent historian and one of the leading decolonial scholars and theorists in the Global South. He was the Executive Director of the Change Management Unit (CMU) in the Principal and Vice-Chancellor's office at the University of South Africa (UNISA) and Professor of African Political Economy at the Thabo Mbeki African Leadership Institute (TMALI) at the same institution. Previously, he headed the Archie Mafeje Research Institute for Applied Social Policy (AMRI).
1. Introduction: Human Planetary Entanglements and Challenges of Living Together Part 1: Legacies of Westphalia and Berlin Conferences 2. The Westphalian and Berlin Borders in Comparative Perspective and the Logic of Colonial Conquest 3. Victims of the Westphalia and Berlin Conferences' Decisions: Colonial Border Demarcation and Ndau People's Loss of Land and Cross-border Migration into Mozambique Part 2: Migration, Othering and Xenophobia 4. Human Rights in the Global Compact for Migration: Some Reflections 5. The Complexity and Asymmetrical Power Relations in European Union Border Externalisation in Africa 6. Europe-Africa Border Relations: A Reflection 7. They Steal Our Jobs and Our Women and Sell Drugs to Our Youth: Hybrid-Media Framing of South Africa's 'Criminal Non-nationals' 8. #PutSouthAfricaFirst and Afrophobic Xenophobia Part 3: Nation, Belonging and Citizenship 9. Multiculturalism Discourses: Subterranean Fault Lines in the Rainbow Nation 10. The Covid-19 Moment: Pestilence as Amplifier of Age-long and Entrenched Structural Discrimination in International Migration Towards South Africa 11. Borders, Migration and Belonging in West Africa Part 4: Urbanism, Family Experiences and Transnational Solidarity 12. Living with the Other: Contentious Politics and Belonging in the Urban Landscape of Northeast India 13. We Will Meet at the Bridge: Alexander Bridge and Stories of a Zimbabwean Migrant Family in Johannesburg, South Africa, 1970s-2019 14. Childhood Amidst Conflict: Graphic Novels Promoting Transnational Solidarity and Planetary Humanism