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academic.oup.com Porous Penality and the Myth of Liberal Punishment: Lessons from South Africa Abstract. Drawing on Walter Benjamin, this paper discusses the relationships between law, violence, and punishment. The main argument I make is that state 
theconversation.com Vigilantism in South Africa carries historical imprints of past violence against black people The study highlights the flimsy boundaries between different forms of violence: torture and extrajudicial punishment, lawful arrest, and an unlawful kidnapping. 
journals.sagepub.com Violence and bordering on the margins of the State: A view from South Africa and the southern... This article examines expulsions in and around the Spanish enclaves of Ceuta and Melilla and in informal settlements in former black townships in South Africa. ... 
journals.sagepub.com Cars, compounds and containers: Judicial and extrajudicial infrastructures of punishment in the... This paper examines non-state infrastructures of vigilante violence in marginalized spaces in South Africa. I argue that car trunks, shacks, containers, and oth... 