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White South Africans have continued to enjoy the lion's share
Africa's land and riches since the end of statutory apartheid. With
the recent threat of land expropriation without compensation, many
believe that the racial order itself is about to be undone. It is
in these dying moments of the myth of the "Rainbow Nation" that
White Belongings: Race, Land, and Property in Post-Apartheid South
Africa deepens ongoing critical deconstruction of the role of
whiteness in maintaining racial order. The book analyses white
discourse at a time of increasing stridency and defensiveness,
arguing that the protection of white entitlement and cultural
connection to the land are intimately interwoven. To show this,
Scott Burnett uses detailed discourse analysis of campaigns aimed
at preventing rhino poaching, stopping fracking in the Karoo, and
advocating for the existence of a poverty "crisis." These social
and traditional media texts reveal how whites hold on to their
"belongings" in everyday talk. The author mobilizes key strategies
such as asserting ecological indigeneity, promoting enclave
entrepreneurialism, and reproducing the rationality of market
liberalism. 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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