White Belongings

Race, Land, and Property in Post-Apartheid South Africa

Scott Burnett (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

200 Seiten

2022
Lexington Books (Verlag)
9781793654946 (ISBN)

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White Belongings critically deconstructs everyday white discourses of the land in South Africa at a time of increasing stridency and defensiveness over restitution and reform, showing how articulating environmental stewardship and belonging are interwoven with asserting ownership and control.

White Belongings: Race, Land, and Property in Post-Apartheid South Africa deepens ongoing critical deconstruction of the role of whiteness in maintaining racial order. Scott Burnett , argues that the protection of white entitlement and cultural connection to the land are intimately interwoven, using detailed discourse analysis of campaigns aimed at preventing rhino poaching, stopping fracking in the Karoo, and advocating for the existence of a poverty “crisis,” which reveal how whites hold on to their “belongings” in everyday talk. White Belongings goes beyond the preoccupation with identity in whiteness studies to elaborate how specific subject roles and institutions are motivated and rationalized in hegemonic discursive regimes.

Scott Burnett is assistant professor in communications in the department of applied IT at the University of Gothenburg.

Introduction: Rhodes’s Soul
Chapter 1: Deconstructing Post-Apartheid Discourse
Chapter 2: Stewards of the Land
Chapter 3: Protecting ‘Soul Country’
Chapter 4: ‘Strangers in Their Own Country’
Chapter 5: ‘When You Return the Land’
Conclusion: The Future of White Belongings

Erscheinungsdatum	11.07.2022
Zusatzinfo	12 b/w illustrations; 19 tables;
Sprache	englisch
Maße	159 x 229 mm
Gewicht	445 g
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie ► Volkskunde
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
ISBN-13	9781793654946 / 9781793654946
Zustand	Neuware