Falkof Satanism and Family Murder in Late Apartheid South Africa

Imagining the End of Whiteness
1. Auflage 2015
ISBN: 978-1-137-50305-3
Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan UK
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: 1 - PDF Watermark

E-Book, Englisch, 223 Seiten, eBook

This book discusses two moral panics that appeared in the media in late apartheid South Africa: the Satanism scare and the so-called epidemic of white family murder. The analysis of these symptoms of social and political change reveals important truths about whiteness, gender, violence, history, nationalism and injustice in South Africa and beyond.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Falkof, Nicky

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction: Dark Tales, White Wolves

PART I: SATANISM

1. Excavations

2. Anatomy Of A Moral Panic

3. History And Identity

4. Older Anxieties

5. Resistance And (Bio)Power

PART II: FAMILY MURDER

6. A Death In The Family

7. The Afrikaans Family Romance

8. A ' 'Bloody Epidemic ' '

9. The Righteous Path

10. The Whitest White

Conclusion: The End Of Whiteness

Über Autor(innen)

Nicky Falkof was born and raised in the Johannesburg suburbs during the last years of apartheid. She holds an MA in Critical Theory from the University of Sussex and a PhD from the London Consortium. She is currently Senior Lecturer in Media Studies at the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa.