Worrier State : Risk, Anxiety and Moral Panic in South Africa Hardback
by Nicky Falkof
Part of the Governing Intimacies in the Global South series
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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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- Format:Hardback
- Pages:248 pages
- Publisher:Manchester University Press
- Publication Date:10/05/2022
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- ISBN:9781526164025
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Available to Order - This title is available to order, with delivery expected within 2 weeks
- Format:Hardback
- Pages:248 pages
- Publisher:Manchester University Press
- Publication Date:10/05/2022
- Category:
- ISBN:9781526164025
