Books by Nicky Falkof

Focuses on Johannesburg, the largest and wealthiest city in South Africa, as a case study for the contemporary global South city. Anxious Joburg invites readers to consider an intimate perspective of living inside such a city.

This book discusses two moral panics that appeared in the media in late apartheid South Africa: the Satanism scare and the so-called epidemic of white family murder. The analysis of these symptoms of social and political change reveals important truths about whiteness, gender, violence, history, nationalism and injustice in South Africa and beyond.