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    • Aftershocks: Psychotechnics in the wake of apartheid 

      Truscott, Ross; Smith, Michelle (Taylor & Francis, 2016)
      What we at first found intriguing about Simon Gush’s Red, what the documentary and the installation seemed to mutually conjure, was the Mandela car as a body to be mourned.2 Mourning recurred as a latent theme through the ...
    • Apartheid and the unconscious: An introduction 

      Truscott, Ross; van Bever Donker, Maurits; Hook, Derek (Taylor and Francis Group, 2023)
      This special issue invited contributors to revisit J.M. Coetzee’s “The Mind of Apartheid,” first published in Social Dynamics in 1991. Here, Coetzee asks what it might mean to come to terms with apartheid:It is not ...
    • Auditing and the unconscious: Managerialism’s memory traces 

      Truscott, Ross (Taylor and Francis Group, 2023)
      This paper takes J.M. Coetzee’s “The Mind of Apartheid” as a point of departure in thinking about audits in universities. Using the psychoanalytic framing of apartheid that Coetzee puts in place, audit is likened here ...
    • Empathy’s echo: post-apartheid fellow feeling 

      Truscott, Ross (Taylor & Francis, 2016)
      The concept of empathy has been set to work, across a range of fields, to mark a break with the relational patterns of apartheid. Similarly, empathy has been identified, historically, as that which, within apartheid and ...