White Belongings: Race, Land, and Property in Post-Apartheid South Africa

Scott Burnett

doi:10.5771/9781793654953

Summary

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.

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Edition: 1/2022
Copyright year: 2022
ISBN-Print: 978-1-7936-5494-6
ISBN-Online: 978-1-7936-5495-3
Publisher: Lexington, Lanham
Language: English
Pages: 191
Product type: Book Titles

1. Contents No access
2. List of Figures No access
3. Acknowledgements No access
Introduction: Rhodes’s Soul No access Pages 1 - 22
Chapter 1: Deconstructing Post-Apartheid Discourse No access Pages 23 - 38
Chapter 2: Stewards of the Land No access Pages 39 - 60
Chapter 3: Protecting ‘Soul Country’ No access Pages 61 - 84
Chapter 4: “Strangers in their Own Country” No access Pages 85 - 106
Chapter 5: “When You Return the Land” No access Pages 107 - 134
Conclusion: The Future of White Belongings No access Pages 135 - 150
Bibliography No access Pages 151 - 168
Appendix A: Anti-fracking Facebook Corpus No access Pages 169 - 176
Appendix B: Poor White Video Clips No access Pages 177 - 190
About the Author No access Pages 191 - 191