Racial Undertones on Violence and Human Bodies: White Migrants’ Online Epistemologies of Insecurity and Discomfort in Post-Apartheid South Africa
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Racial Undertones on Violence and Human Bodies: White Migrants’ Online Epistemologies of Insecurity and Discomfort in Post-Apartheid South Africa. / Tazanu, Primus M.
In: International Journal of Critical Diversity Studies, Vol. 2, No. 2, 2021, p. 6.Research output: Contribution to journal › Journal article › Research › peer-review
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T1 - Racial Undertones on Violence and Human Bodies: White Migrants’ Online Epistemologies of Insecurity and Discomfort in Post-Apartheid South Africa
AU - Tazanu, Primus M.
PY - 2021
Y1 - 2021
N2 - Violence and insecurity in post-apartheid South Africa are recurrent themes in onlinemessages by white South Africans who have either migrated or wish to leave thecountry. These online authors position white people as victims or potential victims of crime committed by black people. It is a narrative which references apartheid as a period of safety and security, presupposing life is no longer what it used to be for white people. Through comparing the pre-1994 with the post-apartheid period and particularly emphasising that the black leadership is failing the country, the white migrants construct an epistemology – with racist undertones – of an unliveable South Africa. Narratives of black violence enacted upon white people, as well as white innocence and benevolence, are central features of the migrants’ online complaints of an unliveable South Africa which I take up as a point of focus in this article.
AB - Violence and insecurity in post-apartheid South Africa are recurrent themes in onlinemessages by white South Africans who have either migrated or wish to leave thecountry. These online authors position white people as victims or potential victims of crime committed by black people. It is a narrative which references apartheid as a period of safety and security, presupposing life is no longer what it used to be for white people. Through comparing the pre-1994 with the post-apartheid period and particularly emphasising that the black leadership is failing the country, the white migrants construct an epistemology – with racist undertones – of an unliveable South Africa. Narratives of black violence enacted upon white people, as well as white innocence and benevolence, are central features of the migrants’ online complaints of an unliveable South Africa which I take up as a point of focus in this article.
U2 - 10.13169/intecritdivestud.2.2.0006
DO - 10.13169/intecritdivestud.2.2.0006
M3 - Journal article
VL - 2
SP - 6
JO - International Journal of Critical Diversity Studies
JF - International Journal of Critical Diversity Studies
IS - 2
ER -
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