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- Burnett, Scott, 1978, et al.
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A politics of reminding: Khoisan resurgence and environmental justice in South Africa’s Sarah Baartman district
- 2023
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Ingår i: Critical Discourse Studies. - : Informa UK Limited. - 1740-5904 .- 1740-5912. ; 20, s. 524-539
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- In the wake of colonial fragmentation and genocide, Indigenous ‘Khoisan resurgence’ movements in South Africa have mobilised subversive forms of authenticity, including heteroglossic and inventive translanguaging from fragments of Khoekhoegowab. In our analysis of video ethnographic texts produced in collaboration with the Gamtkwa Khoisan Council (GKC) in Hankey, the birthplace of Sarah Baartman, we explore how memory, language politics, and environmental activism are interwoven in acts of linguistic citizenship that constitute the ‘rememorying’ of a history that has remained persistently obscured. We argue that rememorying advances a politics of reminding which counters the Rainbow Nation’s institutionalised politics of forgetting, as well as anthropological accounts that consider Indigenous activist invocations of history as merely ‘therapeutic’. Through an engagement with the memory activism of the GKC, we identify how reconstructing word-histories, reliving historical traumas, retelling histories of sites of memory, seeing oneself mirrored in one’s ancestors, and the nexus of land, memory, and time form the basis for shared meaning-making, bringing impetus, focus, and intergenerational continuity to struggles for environmental and land justice.
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- Burnett, Scott, 1978
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Adamastor Unbound? Whiteness and Landscape in Post-1994 South Africa
- 2023
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Ingår i: Sentient Ecologies: Xenophobic Imaginaries of Landscape. - : Berghahn. - 9781800736627
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Bokkapitel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Analyses three moments in the post-apartheid depiction of landscape that reveal anxieties of white belonging: Cyril Coetzee's 1999 painting T'Kama/Adamastor; John Simpson's 2013 BBC insert on whether whites have a future in South Africa; and an ethnography of the anti-fracking movement.
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- Burnett, Scott, 1978, et al.
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'Breeders for race and nation': gender, sexuality and fecundity in post-war British fascist discourse
- 2021
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Ingår i: Patterns of Prejudice. - 0031-322X. ; 55:4, s. 331-356
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Burnett and Richardson's paper has two related aims. First, it develops a model of how gender is articulated within fascist and other far-right discourses based on a review of the relevant scholarship. This model is presented in the first section. Researchers have in the past suggested a gap, or even a wilful ignorance, of gender in studies of the far right, and claimed that the topic is 'neglected' and 'under-researched'. This gap is to some extent held open by disciplinary, historical and definitional boundaries that work fractally to split inquiry. Burnett and Richardson have thus read the literature in a kaleidoscopic fashion, including analysis across different historical periods and country contexts, to examine how gender surfaces in various 'fascist' discourses. This approach covered psychoanalytical, discourse analytical, historical, art historical, literary, political and anthropological approaches to gender and fascism. The second aim of the paper is to show how the model proposed is brought into relief in a particular country context: that of the United Kingdom since the Second World War. Gender in post-war British fascism has been the subject of several important studies, though none of them have specifically traced the textual journey of key ideas and themes related to gender in mediatized far-right discourse. Building on a discourse-historical analytic approach to the development of fascist politics of this period, Burnett and Richardson argue that paying attention to gender in fascist discourse is a useful lens through which to analyse the local and historical contingencies that make one fascist discursive formation differ from another.
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- Burnett, Scott, 1978
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Circulation in the manosphere: Mobile matrices of reactionary masculinity
- 2022
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Annan publikation (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- Understanding how extremist ideas spread in stylized and enregistered forms is a matter of some urgency for feminist and critical scholarship, and this paper investigates the global spread of anti-feminist and right-wing discourses in the constellation of websites, blogs, and social media profiles collectively referred to as the “manosphere”, constructing and promoting reactionary and antifeminist masculinities. In the first section of the paper, I discuss theories of circulation, and present H. Samy Alim’s (2009) notion of the “translocal style community” as a suitable model for discursive formations that are dispersed, multimodal, networked, and in competition with each other. I then lay out the current state of research on the manosphere, and identify a need for a sociolinguistic approach to this phenomenon. In analysis of five Twitter accounts that promote NoFap I identify five distinct styles which work to present high-status masculine subject positions. In the concluding section I argue that register and style are intimately involved in the circulation of far-right and masculinist discourses, which undergird recruitment and radicalization strategies that appeal to anxieties about status and group belonging.
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- Burnett, Scott, 1978
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Ethnoscaping Green Resistance: Heritage and the Fight Against Fracking
- 2022
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Ingår i: Theorizing Heritage through Non-Violent Resistance. - Cham : Palgrave MacMillan. - 9783030777074
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Bokkapitel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This chapter explores specific instances where environmentalist resistance to fossil fuel extraction mobilizes definitions of ‘heritage’ connected to colonial histories and ethnocentric visions for the future. Through discourse analysis of Facebook groups of the most successful campaigns to prevent hydraulic fracturing for natural gas in the United Kingdom, Australia, and South Africa, national ‘ethnoscapes’ that bind activists together are exposed as wrapped up in attempts to secure the nation as a white possession. Pre-enclosure Britain, the Australia of the Eureka Stockade, and white colonial expansion in South Africa are produced as Golden Ages, which must be inoculated against the histories of genocide and repression of autochthonous populations. The consistent discursive work needed to whitewash heritage in the metropole, and to legitimize present land control in the colonies, is presented as a major obstacle to building the kinds of coalitions that are necessary for environmental protection on a global scale.
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- Burnett, Scott, 1978, et al.
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Fatal masculinities: A queer look at green violence
- 2017
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Ingår i: ACME: An International E-Journal for Critical Geographies. - 1492-9732. ; 16:3, s. 548-575
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- The militarized response to the rhino poaching crisis in southern Africa exposes poachers to “fatal couplings of power and difference” (Gilmore 2002). While the racialized dimensions of this phenomenon are currently the subject of robust debate, this paper focuses on how race, gender, and sexuality are co-constructed in the anti-poaching discourse. Bringing the work of geographer Ruth Wilson Gilmore into conversation with Frantz Fanon’s psycho-existential exposition of race, we read several campaign texts against their landscapes, revealing the role that gendered constructions of racial subjects play in justifying the extrajudicial killing of rhino poachers. We conclude that a geographic-linguistic approach to textual analysis usefully exposes the interconnectedness of gender, race, and sexuality at the heart of a modern conservationist campaign, and suggest that this framework complements queer geographic and intersectional approaches to racism.
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- Burnett, Scott, 1978
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The Battle for "NoFap": Myths, Masculinity, and the Meaning of Masturbation Abstention
- 2022
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Ingår i: Men and Masculinities. - : SAGE Publications. - 1097-184X .- 1552-6828. ; 25:3
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Critical masculinities scholarship has identified a number of ways in which abstention from sex, pornography, and masturbation works to repair and reproduce hybrid and hegemonic masculinities. Though the mercurial and plural nature of contemporary online masculinities is investigated on a number of fronts, analysis to date has often pinned down abstention to a particular subject position, often understood predominantly in its gendered dimensions. In this article, I argue that the anti-pornography, anti-masturbation movement NoFap should be understood as a site of political contestation for the meaning potential of abstention and that these subject positions should be read intersectionally. Through analysis of a large corpus of tweets (6,569) scraped from the micro-blogging site Twitter, I present evidence for seven distinct subject positions linked to discrete myths, which include extreme anti-feminist and anti-Semitic articulations. I argue that this bird's-eye view of NoFap uniquely lays out competing myths in their specificity, facilitating a nuanced understanding of "morbid" identities.
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- Burnett, Scott, 1978, et al.
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‘THE GREAT YOUTUBE PURGE OF WRONGTHINK’: ALTRIGHT ADAPTATIONS IN A CHANGING PLATFORM ECOLOGY
- 2021
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Ingår i: AoIR Selected Papers of Internet Research. - : University of Illinois Libraries. - 2162-3317.
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Konferensbidrag (refereegranskat)abstract
- Social media platforms are under increasing pressure to counter racist and other extremist discourses online. The perceived "independence" of platforms such as YouTube has attracted AltRight "micro-celebrities" (Lewis, 2020) that build alternative networks of influence. This paper examines how the discourses of one online AltRight "manfluencer" responds to tightening controls over allowable speech. We present analysis of the YouTube channel of the Swedish far right bodybuilder and motivational speaker Marcus Follin, or "The Golden One". His specific approach to politics includes fitspiration, motivational speaking, and other kinds of neoliberal technologies of the self that in his ideology come together as a call to defend white motherlands and join hands between European nations to fight against globalism and multiculturalism. Through conducting post-foundational discourse analysis of a corpus of 40 videos, we identify three prominent strategies that he uses to respond to increased control of online spaces. The first is to increase cultural encryption, constructing social media as territories in a “metapolitical” war will be won culturally. The second is partial articulation, where he stays focused on positive messages, and his ideology is explained as being about love, not hate. The third is migration, diversification, and new platform-specific foci, through which he finds new and ‘independent’ online spaces and builds new audiences. We conclude that we need more nuanced understandings of how far right ideologies might thrive and build resilience in response to pressure on their speech.
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- Burnett, Scott, 1978
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White Belongings: Race, Land, and Property in Post-Apartheid South Africa
- 2022
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Bok (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- 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.
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