{"product_id":"worrier-state-risk-anxiety-and-moral-panic-in-south-africa-paperback","title":"Worrier State: Risk, Anxiety and Moral Panic in South Africa - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eNicky Falkof\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis book investigates how different cultures of fear manifest in South African social and mainstream media, arguing that fear and other emotions are a critical lens for understanding contemporary life. It discusses the myth of 'white genocide'; so-called 'Satanist' murders; township urban legends; and white suburban anxieties.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eBack Jacket\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e'This stunning book resonates with climates of fear far beyond South Africa in how it magnifies the tensions and intimacies between embodied experience and the lingering history and threat of violence. This is a powerful and difficult book to write, and to write this well.'\u003cbr\u003eSamantha Pinto, author of Infamous Bodies: Early Black Women's Celebrity and the Afterlives of Rights \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e'Original and refreshing, Falkof's book is a must read for those of us interested in understanding contemporary formations of race and power in the global South and the role of the media in framing these debates. This study is critically needed in this moment of increasing worldwide white nationalism.'\u003cbr\u003eXavier Livermon, author of Kwaito Bodies: Remastering Space and Subjectivity in Post-Apartheid South Africa \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eRisk, 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? \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWorrier 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.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eNicky Falkof is Associate Professor of Media Studies at the University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 248\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.54 x 8.5 x 5.5 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e June 27, 2023\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47488929956018,"sku":"9781526171887","price":51.21,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0770\/3891\/1666\/files\/d2c8bdb7794b286fa111a791f4993752.webp?v=1779358434","url":"https:\/\/box.dadyminds.org\/products\/worrier-state-risk-anxiety-and-moral-panic-in-south-africa-paperback","provider":"DADYMINDS BOX","version":"1.0","type":"link"}