RT Book
T1 Worrier state: Risk, anxiety and moral panic in South Africa
T2 Governing Intimacies in the Global South
A1 Falkof, Nicky
LA English
PP Manchester
PB Manchester University Press
YR 2022
UL https://krimdok.uni-tuebingen.de/Record/186998773X
AB 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
CN 152.460968
SN 9781526164032
K1 SOCIAL SCIENCE / Ethnic Studies / African Studies
K1 African cultural studies
K1 South Africa
K1 anxiety
K1 crime
K1 cultures of fear
K1 emotion
K1 moral panic
K1 race
K1 risk
K1 security
DO 10.7765/9781526164032