N Falkof
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 46208 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | N Falkof |
| NOMBRES | N |
| APELLIDO | Falkof |
| FIRMA | FALKOF N |
| AFILIACIONES | University of the Witwatersrand |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-2095-6678 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 29 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 32 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 29 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2011 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 4 |
God’s Waiting Room
Casey Golomski’s God’s Waiting Room is an ambitious and touching investigation into the intricate class and racial politics of a South African old-age home
Risk processing
This article self-reflexively explores the moral ambiguities of white fear in Johannesburg, South Africa, through the lens of motherhood. As a scholar writing on race and whiteness, the author has examined the ideological utility of white fear and its basis in racial mythology, while as a new mother she has learnt to experience fear for the safety of her children. In the wake of becoming a parent, her ability to reasonably process risk has change…
The Southern City as Urban Lab
Anxiety, with Nicky Falkof
Anxiety is part of contemporary life, yet rarely seen as anything other than personal and intimately psychological. Cultural Studies scholar Nicky Falkof joins us to discuss her work on fear and anxiety in South Africa, and how such negative emotions are often collective and collectively constructedand relate deeply to our identities. Indeed, as Nicky tells us, if you ask yourself what or whom you're scared of, you quickly face the question of wh…
Real Men Do Good Sex
This article focuses on the representations of black masculinities in television advertisements for Men's Clinic International, a popular franchise of clinics in South Africa that specialises in men's sexual and reproductive health. It explores the ideological assumptions underlying the various constructions of manhood portrayed in the adverts in relation to men's sexual health. Three interconnected themes emerged from the analysis of the texts, …
Making feminist sense in the global south
Consuming Africa
This article considers the way in which high-end beauty services in Johannesburg use a particular notion of “Africa” to brand themselves. Globally, the beauty industry is designed around an idea of indulgence, with pampering posited as a means of self-care, survival and joy. Marketing for beauty destinations often draws on an Orientalist idea of the “mysterious east,” invoking the stereotyped serenity of locations like Bali to offer bite-sized co…
Lovers not fighters
This paper considers two South African romantic comedies, Tell Me Sweet Something (Akin Omotoso, 2015) and Happiness is a Four-Letter Word (Thabang Moleya, 2016). Both are set in a wealthy, sophisticated version of Johannesburg and feature black casts that include high profile celebrities. Both emphasize versions of black South African masculinity that deviate from stereotyped depictions of black men as workers, warriors, patriarchs and/or enacto…
Cultural studies in South Africa, or not
This contribution to the International Journal of Cultural Studies' ongoing series ponders cultural studies’ relative failure to retain a presence in South African academia today, suggesting that local and historical mis/uses of the notion of culture may have some impact on how it has been received in this particular context
You've Got to Be Real
For many young black South African women, the competitive arena of social media offers access to significant social and cultural capital, which can be invaluable in the unequal context in which they live. In order to succeed in this high stakes environment young women carefully construct the identities and idealised selves that they present on platforms like Instagram. They display a lifestyle of glamorous consumption, showcasing exclusive brands…
Expat anxieties
This article considers ‘expatriate’ discourses about security in Cape Town, South Africa and Santiago de Chile. The cities themselves have reputations as desirable, beautiful, civilised, modern and welcoming, in contrast to lurid ideas about poverty, crime, filth and corruption that often characterise northern imaginings of the developing world. Yet, their locations within sub-Saharan Africa and Latin America, respectively, nonetheless mark them …
On Moral Panic
This article is concerned with the continued salience of the notion of moral panic, an idea that has been both enormously influential in sociological and media research and has come under fire for various flaws. It reviews some of the most common critiques of moral panic, discussing why these are valid and where they fall short, and adds new comments on some weaknesses in the theory. It goes on to argue that the term and the idea of moral panic c…
Sex and the Devil
This article discusses the discursive and narrative intersections between two moral panics that appeared in the white South African press in the last years of apartheid: the first around the claimed danger posed by white male homosexuals, the second around the alleged incursion of a criminal cult of white Satanists. This connection was sometimes implicit, when the rhetoric attached to one was repeated with reference to the other, and sometimes ex…
The Exhibited Corpse
Touted as the world's most popular touring exhibition, Body Worlds, the display of “plastinated” human corpses, has been viewed by over 40 million people worldwide. This article builds on existing scholarship of the phenomenon, with an analysis of the exhibition “Body Worlds & The Cycle of Life”, displayed in Johannesburg, South Africa, in 2014. It situates Body Worlds as a global consumer product, considering its unchanged appearance within sout…
The devil destroyed us”
In October 2011, a young South African woman named Kirsty Theologo was set on fire and left for dead by a group of her high school contemporaries in Linmeyer, Johannesburg. The killing was defined as a “Satanist murder,” leading to media, judicial, and religious interventions aimed at countering the apparent Satanic threat. This article examines press material surrounding Kirsty Theologo’s death and the subsequent arrest and trial of her killers.…
Eng/Afr
This article considers the portrayal of white masculinity in two contemporary South African feature films, its socio-political implications and relation to histories of white identity. These films' protagonists are middle-aged white South African men, both educated, privileged and financially stable, both of whom make sexual choices that are seen as deviant, with damaging consequences. Oliver Hermanus' Skoonheid (2011) is the story of Francois, a…
Advertising diversity
Advertising diversity: ad agencies and the creation of Asian American Consumers." Ethnic and Racial Studies, 40(3), pp. 534–535
Excavations
There is a brief passage in Frantz Fanon’s ‘Concerning Violence’ in which he discusses the relevance of occult superstitions to the colonised native, describing them as mechanisms for disavowal of the coloniser’s power, creating a narrative in which the subjugation of the colonised person is blamed on supernatural forces rather than on white domination. Occult beliefs, he says, contain and displace the native’s murderous rage against colonial mas…
Satanism and Family Murder in Late Apartheid South Africa
This book discusses two moral panics that appeared in the media in late apartheid South Africa: the Satanism scare and the so-called epidemic of white family murder. The analysis of these symptoms of
Smooth dudes and fucked up kids
Despite its impressive heritage of music, visual art, and literature, South Africa does not have a robust indigenous film industry. Most local movies seem doomed to fail locally; they stay in cinem
Out the back
The domestic worker’s room, or ‘maid’s room’, was ubiquitous in apartheid-era white South African suburbia. In the post-apartheid era many of these outdoor rooms have been reinvented as so-called garden cottages. Their histories of racialised labour have ostensibly been erased by a middle-class discourse in which garden cottages are rented to people who are seen to legitimately ‘belong’ in the suburbs. This article uses a combination of historica…
Witchcraft and a Life in the New South Africa
A “Bloody Epidemic”
During the last years of the apartheid state, white South Africa was gripped by a so-called epidemic of family murder. This article examines the body of contemporary press responses to these killings to analyze the persistent assumption made by newspaper and magazine writers that the family murderer was necessarily white, male, Afrikaans, and conservative, and to think about what white family murder meant within the late apartheid imaginary. The …
The truth about crime
In April 2017 Karabo Mokoena, a 22-year-old woman from Diepkloof, Soweto, went missing. Weeks later her burned body was recovered from a trash bin in a park in Lyndhurst, Johannesburg. Sandile Mant
Conspiracy narratives from postcolonial Africa
On Moral Panic
This article is concerned with the continued salience of the notion of moral panic, an idea that has been both enormously influential in sociological and media research and has come under fire for various flaws. It reviews some of the most common critiques of moral panic, discussing why these are valid and where they fall short, and adds new comments on some weaknesses in the theory. It goes on to argue that the term and the idea of moral panic c…
Sex and the Devil
This article discusses the discursive and narrative intersections between two moral panics that appeared in the white South African press in the last years of apartheid: the first around the claimed danger posed by white male homosexuals, the second around the alleged incursion of a criminal cult of white Satanists. This connection was sometimes implicit, when the rhetoric attached to one was repeated with reference to the other, and sometimes ex…
Eng/Afr
This article considers the portrayal of white masculinity in two contemporary South African feature films, its socio-political implications and relation to histories of white identity. These films' protagonists are middle-aged white South African men, both educated, privileged and financially stable, both of whom make sexual choices that are seen as deviant, with damaging consequences. Oliver Hermanus' Skoonheid (2011) is the story of Francois, a…
Satan has come to Rietfontein
In the late 1980s and early 1990s, as the apartheid system was falling apart, white South Africa was gripped by a powerful moral panic that played out, often hysterically, in the newspapers and magazines of the time. This Satanism scare revolved around fears of a large-scale conspiracy of evil that mostly involved white youth, and that threatened the spiritual health and even the continued existence of white South Africa. Rape, murder, cannibalis…
The devil destroyed us”
In October 2011, a young South African woman named Kirsty Theologo was set on fire and left for dead by a group of her high school contemporaries in Linmeyer, Johannesburg. The killing was defined as a “Satanist murder,” leading to media, judicial, and religious interventions aimed at countering the apparent Satanic threat. This article examines press material surrounding Kirsty Theologo’s death and the subsequent arrest and trial of her killers.…
Risk processing
This article self-reflexively explores the moral ambiguities of white fear in Johannesburg, South Africa, through the lens of motherhood. As a scholar writing on race and whiteness, the author has examined the ideological utility of white fear and its basis in racial mythology, while as a new mother she has learnt to experience fear for the safety of her children. In the wake of becoming a parent, her ability to reasonably process risk has change…
Conspiracy narratives from postcolonial Africa
Cultural studies in South Africa, or not
This contribution to the International Journal of Cultural Studies' ongoing series ponders cultural studies’ relative failure to retain a presence in South African academia today, suggesting that local and historical mis/uses of the notion of culture may have some impact on how it has been received in this particular context
You've Got to Be Real
For many young black South African women, the competitive arena of social media offers access to significant social and cultural capital, which can be invaluable in the unequal context in which they live. In order to succeed in this high stakes environment young women carefully construct the identities and idealised selves that they present on platforms like Instagram. They display a lifestyle of glamorous consumption, showcasing exclusive brands…
A “Bloody Epidemic”
During the last years of the apartheid state, white South Africa was gripped by a so-called epidemic of family murder. This article examines the body of contemporary press responses to these killings to analyze the persistent assumption made by newspaper and magazine writers that the family murderer was necessarily white, male, Afrikaans, and conservative, and to think about what white family murder meant within the late apartheid imaginary. The …
Heroes with a Half Life
Godard's Women
Satan has come to Rietfontein
In the late 1980s and early 1990s, as the apartheid system was falling apart, white South Africa was gripped by a powerful moral panic that played out, often hysterically, in the newspapers and magazines of the time. This Satanism scare revolved around fears of a large-scale conspiracy of evil that mostly involved white youth, and that threatened the spiritual health and even the continued existence of white South Africa. Rape, murder, cannibalis…
A “Bloody Epidemic”
During the last years of the apartheid state, white South Africa was gripped by a so-called epidemic of family murder. This article examines the body of contemporary press responses to these killings to analyze the persistent assumption made by newspaper and magazine writers that the family murderer was necessarily white, male, Afrikaans, and conservative, and to think about what white family murder meant within the late apartheid imaginary. The …
Heroes with a Half Life
Racial Spectacles
Jonathan Markovitz, RACIAL SPECTACLES: EXPLORATIONS IN MEDIA, RACE AND JUSTICE, New York and London: Routledge, 2011, 227 pp., £24.99 (pbk) This serious, elegantly written and convincing book argue
Witchcraft and a Life in the New South Africa
Excavations
There is a brief passage in Frantz Fanon’s ‘Concerning Violence’ in which he discusses the relevance of occult superstitions to the colonised native, describing them as mechanisms for disavowal of the coloniser’s power, creating a narrative in which the subjugation of the colonised person is blamed on supernatural forces rather than on white domination. Occult beliefs, he says, contain and displace the native’s murderous rage against colonial mas…
Satanism and Family Murder in Late Apartheid South Africa
This book discusses two moral panics that appeared in the media in late apartheid South Africa: the Satanism scare and the so-called epidemic of white family murder. The analysis of these symptoms of
Smooth dudes and fucked up kids
Despite its impressive heritage of music, visual art, and literature, South Africa does not have a robust indigenous film industry. Most local movies seem doomed to fail locally; they stay in cinem
Out the back
The domestic worker’s room, or ‘maid’s room’, was ubiquitous in apartheid-era white South African suburbia. In the post-apartheid era many of these outdoor rooms have been reinvented as so-called garden cottages. Their histories of racialised labour have ostensibly been erased by a middle-class discourse in which garden cottages are rented to people who are seen to legitimately ‘belong’ in the suburbs. This article uses a combination of historica…
The devil destroyed us”
In October 2011, a young South African woman named Kirsty Theologo was set on fire and left for dead by a group of her high school contemporaries in Linmeyer, Johannesburg. The killing was defined as a “Satanist murder,” leading to media, judicial, and religious interventions aimed at countering the apparent Satanic threat. This article examines press material surrounding Kirsty Theologo’s death and the subsequent arrest and trial of her killers.…
Eng/Afr
This article considers the portrayal of white masculinity in two contemporary South African feature films, its socio-political implications and relation to histories of white identity. These films' protagonists are middle-aged white South African men, both educated, privileged and financially stable, both of whom make sexual choices that are seen as deviant, with damaging consequences. Oliver Hermanus' Skoonheid (2011) is the story of Francois, a…
Advertising diversity
Advertising diversity: ad agencies and the creation of Asian American Consumers." Ethnic and Racial Studies, 40(3), pp. 534–535
The Exhibited Corpse
Touted as the world's most popular touring exhibition, Body Worlds, the display of “plastinated” human corpses, has been viewed by over 40 million people worldwide. This article builds on existing scholarship of the phenomenon, with an analysis of the exhibition “Body Worlds & The Cycle of Life”, displayed in Johannesburg, South Africa, in 2014. It situates Body Worlds as a global consumer product, considering its unchanged appearance within sout…
Sex and the Devil
This article discusses the discursive and narrative intersections between two moral panics that appeared in the white South African press in the last years of apartheid: the first around the claimed danger posed by white male homosexuals, the second around the alleged incursion of a criminal cult of white Satanists. This connection was sometimes implicit, when the rhetoric attached to one was repeated with reference to the other, and sometimes ex…
On Moral Panic
This article is concerned with the continued salience of the notion of moral panic, an idea that has been both enormously influential in sociological and media research and has come under fire for various flaws. It reviews some of the most common critiques of moral panic, discussing why these are valid and where they fall short, and adds new comments on some weaknesses in the theory. It goes on to argue that the term and the idea of moral panic c…
You've Got to Be Real
For many young black South African women, the competitive arena of social media offers access to significant social and cultural capital, which can be invaluable in the unequal context in which they live. In order to succeed in this high stakes environment young women carefully construct the identities and idealised selves that they present on platforms like Instagram. They display a lifestyle of glamorous consumption, showcasing exclusive brands…
Expat anxieties
This article considers ‘expatriate’ discourses about security in Cape Town, South Africa and Santiago de Chile. The cities themselves have reputations as desirable, beautiful, civilised, modern and welcoming, in contrast to lurid ideas about poverty, crime, filth and corruption that often characterise northern imaginings of the developing world. Yet, their locations within sub-Saharan Africa and Latin America, respectively, nonetheless mark them …
Consuming Africa
This article considers the way in which high-end beauty services in Johannesburg use a particular notion of “Africa” to brand themselves. Globally, the beauty industry is designed around an idea of indulgence, with pampering posited as a means of self-care, survival and joy. Marketing for beauty destinations often draws on an Orientalist idea of the “mysterious east,” invoking the stereotyped serenity of locations like Bali to offer bite-sized co…
Lovers not fighters
This paper considers two South African romantic comedies, Tell Me Sweet Something (Akin Omotoso, 2015) and Happiness is a Four-Letter Word (Thabang Moleya, 2016). Both are set in a wealthy, sophisticated version of Johannesburg and feature black casts that include high profile celebrities. Both emphasize versions of black South African masculinity that deviate from stereotyped depictions of black men as workers, warriors, patriarchs and/or enacto…
Cultural studies in South Africa, or not
This contribution to the International Journal of Cultural Studies' ongoing series ponders cultural studies’ relative failure to retain a presence in South African academia today, suggesting that local and historical mis/uses of the notion of culture may have some impact on how it has been received in this particular context
Anxiety, with Nicky Falkof
Anxiety is part of contemporary life, yet rarely seen as anything other than personal and intimately psychological. Cultural Studies scholar Nicky Falkof joins us to discuss her work on fear and anxiety in South Africa, and how such negative emotions are often collective and collectively constructedand relate deeply to our identities. Indeed, as Nicky tells us, if you ask yourself what or whom you're scared of, you quickly face the question of wh…
Real Men Do Good Sex
This article focuses on the representations of black masculinities in television advertisements for Men's Clinic International, a popular franchise of clinics in South Africa that specialises in men's sexual and reproductive health. It explores the ideological assumptions underlying the various constructions of manhood portrayed in the adverts in relation to men's sexual health. Three interconnected themes emerged from the analysis of the texts, …
Making feminist sense in the global south
The truth about crime
In April 2017 Karabo Mokoena, a 22-year-old woman from Diepkloof, Soweto, went missing. Weeks later her burned body was recovered from a trash bin in a park in Lyndhurst, Johannesburg. Sandile Mant
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