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Performing the struggle against apartheid opposing apartheid on stage: King Kong the musical
(Cambridge University Press, 2023)
Tyler Fleming’s book provides an account of the first production of ‘King Kong’ — a musical theatre
production based on the life of the boxer Ezekiel Dlamini — in 1959. This musical rankled the
apartheid state partly ...
Between racial madness and neoliberal reason: Metonymic contagion in apartheid biopower
(Taylor and Francis Group, 2023)
I will seek to consider the simultaneous workings of race and capital in apartheid biopower. J.M. Coetzee offers a reading of apartheid racism as racial madness which is imbricated with economic reason. In the wake of the ...
Auditing and the unconscious: Managerialism’s memory traces
(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 ...
Apartheid and the unconscious: An introduction
(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 ...
Worrier state: Risk, anxiety and moral panic in South Africa
(SAGE Publications, 2023)
While reading Nicky Falkof’s Worrier State: Risk, anxiety, and moral panic in South Africa, I couldn’t help but think of the video of Nina Simone being interviewed that often floats around social media where she is asked ...
Government by grants: The post-pandemic politics of welfare
(Johns Hopkins University Press, 2020)
In April 2020, with South Africa in national lockdown, president Cyril
Ramaphosa announced the Covid-19 relief program on a scale he called
‘historic’. He affirmed that the state would not only reestablish the economy
but ...
Religious leaders as agents of Lgbtiq inclusion in east Africa
(Oxford University Press, 2023)
When Ugandan parliamentarians passed a new Anti-Homosexuality Bill in March 2023, they reportedly did so under pressure from, and with the enthusiastic support of, religious leaders.1 In other African countries, too, recent ...