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Satanism and Family Murder in Late Apartheid South Africa
by Nicky FalkofIn the last years of apartheid, white South African society found itself in the grip of previously unimaginable social and political change, which sometimes manifested in morbid cultural symptoms. This book considers two of those symptoms, a pair of matched moral panics that appeared in the contemp... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2015 -
Anxious Joburg: The inner lives of a global South city
by Sarah Nuttall • Joel Cabrita • Derek Hook • Nicky Falkof • Sisonke Msimang • B Camminga • Aidan Mosselson • Cobus Van Staden • Mingwei Huang • Lebohang Masango • Njogu Morgan • Khangelani Moyo • Renugan Raidoo • Baeletsi TsatsiAn interdisciplinary account of the life of Johannesburg, South Africa's "global south city"Anxious Joburg focuses on Johannesburg, the largest and wealthiest city in South Africa, as a case study for the contemporary global South city. Global South cities are often characterised as sites of contrad... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2020