Dr Steven Lawrence Gordon
Human Sciences Research Council
Research Associate, Psychology
South Africa
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My Publications
Citizens’ preferences for tackling xenophobic violence in South Africa
Peace and Conflict Journal of Peace Psychology
February 2022
In the last few decades, South Africa has experienced destructive waves of xenophobic violence. Tackling this kind of violence requires interventions at the policy and community level. Designing an...
Why do ordinary people participate in xenophobic violence in South Africa?
South African Journal of Psychology
February 2019
South Africa is a violent society but the problem of anti-immigrant violence is distinct and deserves special attention. Currently there is substantial contention on what determines participation i...
An examination of the drivers of participation in anti-immigrant hate crime in South Af...
South African Geographical Journal
April 2019
Xenophobic violence poses to social cohesion in South Africa as well as a threat to the country’s diplomatic relations with other African countries. When trying to combat xenophobia, policymakers a...
The Importance of Being African: Public Attitudes towards Immigration Selection in Sout...
Commonwealth and Comparative Politics
October 2020
The African Union (via the Free Movement Protocol) wants to make 'being African' an important immigration admission criterion amongst its member states. But what do ordinary people in South Africa...
‘Dark Cloud with a Silver Lining’? The Prospect of a Rise in Material Values or a Post-...
International Journal of Sociology
September 2020
The ‘Fuck White People’ Phenomenon in South Africa: A Discursive and Statistical Analysis
Politikon
January 2020
Understanding xenophobic hate crime in South Africa
Journal of Public Affairs
January 2020
The Unconvinced Vote: The Nature and Determinants of Voting Intentions and the Changing...
Politikon
November 2019
Associational Life and 'the Dark Side' of Social Capital in South Africa: A Quantitativ...
Social Indicators Research
October 2019
How ordinary people in South Africa understand xenophobic violence
The Round Table
September 2019
The Grave Challenge Facing South African Elections: A Loss of Hearts and Minds
The Round Table
May 2019
Choice of language in education: do we know what South Africans want?
Language and Education
December 2018
What Drives Citizen Participation in Political Gatherings in Modern South Africa? A Qua...
Social Indicators Research
February 2018
Who Is Welcoming and Who Is Not? An Attitudinal Analysis of Anti-Immigrant Sentiment in...
South African Review of Sociology
January 2018
Minding the Protest: Attitudes towards different forms of protest action in contemporar...
South African Crime Quarterly
December 2017
Protest Blues: Public opinion on the policing of protest in South Africa
South African Crime Quarterly
December 2017
“The Friends of Our Friends Are Our Friends”: Determinants of Hosts’ Contact with Inter...
November 2017
Understanding semantic differential measures in modern South Africa: attitudes of Black...
South African Journal of Psychology
September 2017
Racial animosity and political party partisanship in South Africa: the case of the Afri...
Democratization
August 2017
The Hot, the Cold and the Lukewarm: Exploring the Depth and Determinants of Public Clos...
Politikon
July 2017
Subjective National Wellbeing and Xenophobia in Sub-Saharan Africa: Results and Lessons...
January 2017
Understanding Evaluations of Foreigners in Modern South Africa: The Relationship Betwee...
Journal of Happiness Studies
December 2016
Shutting the Gates in South Africa: National Identification and Popular Attitudes towar...
Tijdschrift voor Economische en Sociale Geografie
December 2016
Immigration policies that include or exclude: a South African public opinion study of i...
Social Dynamics
September 2016
Waiting for the Barbarians: a public opinion analysis of South African attitudes toward...
Ethnic and Racial Studies
June 2016
A Desire for Isolation? Mass Public Attitudes in South Africa Toward Immigration Levels
Journal of Immigrant & Refugee Studies
April 2016
Pulling us apart? The association between fear of crime and social cohesion in South Af...
South African Crime Quarterly
April 2016
Xenophobia across the class divide: South African attitudes towards foreigners 2003–2012
Journal of Contemporary African Studies
October 2015
Individual Trust and Distrust in South African Trade Unions: A Quantitative Analysis, 2...
Politikon
September 2015
Neighbourhood-level social capital and anti-immigrant prejudice in an African context: ...
Commonwealth and Comparative Politics
March 2015
Trusting the Coalface: Public Trust in South African Local Government and the Millenniu...
January 2015
Shadow of the Sun – The Distribution of Wellbeing in Sub-Saharan Africa
November 2014
Welcoming refugees in the rainbow nation: contemporary attitudes towards refugees in So...
African Geographical Review
July 2014
Representing foreign workers in the private security industry: a South African perspect...
The Journal of Modern African Studies
February 2014
Profiling South African gender inequality in informal self-employment
Journal of Gender Studies
October 2013
Globalisation and Migrant Labour in a ‘Rainbow Nation': a fortress South Africa?
Third World Quarterly
October 2008
