Apartheid Vertigo

Focuses on Apartheid Vertigo, the dizzying sensation following prolonged oppression and delusions of skin colour. This book demonstrates that in South Africa violent conflict lurks on the surface of everyday life and it can burst through the fragile limits set upon it, with the potential to escalate into ethnic cleansing. Ironically, the victims are not only the outsiders against whom the code is mobilized but also the insiders who mobilize it. Drawing on evidence from interviews, observation, press articles, reports, research monographs and history, this project deconstructs the idea of visible differences between black nationals and black foreign nationals. It demonstrates that in South Africa violent conflict lurks on the surface of everyday life and it can burst through the fragile limits set upon it, with the potential to escalate into ethnic cleansing