White Belongings : Race, Land, and Property in Post-Apartheid South Africa

White Belongings: Race, Land, and Property in Post-Apartheid South Africa deepens ongoing critical deconstruction of the role of whiteness in maintaining racial order. Scott Burnett , argues that the protection of white entitlement and cultural connection to the land are intimately interwoven, using detailed discourse analysis of campaigns aimed at preventing rhino poaching, stopping fracking in the Karoo, and advocating for the existence of a poverty “crisis,” which reveal how whites hold on to their “belongings” in everyday talk. 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. "White Belongings critically deconstructs everyday White discourses of the land in South Africa at a time of increasing stridency and defensiveness over restitution and reform, showing how articulating environmental stewardship and belonging are interwoven with asserting ownership and control"-- Provided by publisher