Governing Intimacies in the Global South- Worrier State Risk, Anxiety and Moral Panic in South Africa

Name: Governing Intimacies in the Global South- Worrier State
Author: Nicky Falkof

Auteur: Nicky Falkof

Taal: Engels

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Auteur: Nicky Falkof

Engels
Paperback
9781526171887
27 juni 2023
248 pagina's

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This book investigates how different cultures of fear manifest in South African social and mainstream media, arguing that fear and other emotions are a critical lens for understanding contemporary life. It discusses the myth of ‘white genocide’; so-called ‘Satanist’ murders; township urban legends; and white suburban anxieties.

‘This stunning book resonates with climates of fear far beyond South Africa in how it magnifies the tensions and intimacies between embodied experience and the lingering history and threat of violence. This is a powerful and difficult book to write, and to write this well.’
Samantha Pinto, author of Infamous Bodies: Early Black Women’s Celebrity and the Afterlives of Rights

‘Original and refreshing, Falkof’s book is a must read for those of us interested in understanding contemporary formations of race and power in the global South and the role of the media in framing these debates. This study is critically needed in this moment of increasing worldwide white nationalism.’
Xavier Livermon, author of Kwaito Bodies: Remastering Space and Subjectivity in Post-Apartheid South Africa

Risk, anxiety and moral panic are endemic to contemporary societies and media forms. How do these phenomena manifest in a place like South Africa, which features heightened insecurity, deep inequality and accelerated social change? What happens when cultures of fear intersect with pervasive systems of gender, race and class?

Worrier state investigates four case studies in which fear and anxiety appear in radically different ways: the far right myth of ‘white genocide’; so-called ‘Satanist’ murders of young women; an urban legend about township crime; and social theories about safety and goodness in the suburbs. Falkof foregrounds the significance of emotion as a socio-political force, emphasising South Africa’s imbrication within globalised conditions of anxiety and thus its fundamental and often-ignored hypermodernity. The book offers a bold and creative perspective on the social roles of fear and emotion in South Africa and thus on everyday life in this complex place.

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Taal: en
Bindwijze: Paperback
Oorspronkelijke releasedatum: 27 juni 2023
Aantal pagina's: 248

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Hoofdauteur: Nicky Falkof
Hoofduitgeverij: Manchester University Press

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Product breedte: 138 mm
Product hoogte: 14 mm
Product lengte: 216 mm
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Verpakking breedte: 138 mm
Verpakking hoogte: 14 mm
Verpakking lengte: 216 mm
Verpakkingsgewicht: 304 g

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Taal: Engels
Beschikbaarheid: Leverbaar
Land: Zuid-Afrika
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