The new moral order and racism in South Africa post 11 September 2001

Title: The new moral order and racism in South Africa post 11 September 2001
Creator: Painter, D, Macleod, Catriona I
Date: 2002
Type: Article
Identifier: vital:6215
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1006266
Description: In this paper we argue that globalisation imposes on ‘developing’ countries more than an economic order; they find themselves with the moral imperative to align themselves with the West against its Others, increasingly portrayed as Islamic fundamentalists. The 11 September terror attacks in the United States of America have pushed this process to a new level, with the attacks represented as no less than a barbaric attack on ‘civilisation’. Through an analysis of a newspaper article reporting on the disciplining of a Muslim woman in for wearing an Osama Bin Laden t-shirt to work in South Africa, we indicate how this moral representation of the 11 September events and the Islamic Other have unique local effects. In South Africa it creates yet more possibilities for racialising practices to continue without being framed in explicitly racial terms. We further reflect on the implications of these events, and the complex interplay of the global and the local they demonstrate, for critical psychology in South Africa.
Format: 8 leaves, pdf
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Language: English
Rights: Pre-print version

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