Project
The Killing of the Dogs
This story of organised around and imaginary organised dog killing in a South African township during the period of resistance to apartheid oppression.
Publication
Engaging Violence: Civility and the Reach of Literature
Simpson, David. 2022. Engaging Violence: Civility and the Reach of Literature. Stanford University Press. https://www.sup.org/books/title/?i...
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Bloody Sunday
Breier, Mignonne. 2021. Bloody Sunday. Tafelberg. http://www.nb.co.za/en/view-book/?id=9780624091141
Project
Working title:Elusive Spring
An award-winning journalist working for a British-owned newspaper, investigates a series of killings that appear to be politically-related; the more he does so, the more he and his associates are threatened, and he has to negotiate numerous attempts to undermine his credibility with the planting of fake news, large sums of money being transferred into his account, and the odd honey trap.
Project
The Morality of Martiality: Beyond Good and Evil in Liberation Struggles
This is an interdisciplinary research project on the morality of martiality.
Publication
Quand les « héros » d’hier sont les criminels d’aujourd’hui
Savelsberg, J. J. 2019. Quand les « héros » d’hier sont les criminels d’aujourd’hui. The Conversation, February. https://theconversation.com...
Publication
Torture Old and New (The Second James MacKeith Lecture)
A Chaskalson. 2010. Torture Old and New (The Second James MacKeith Lecture). Journal of the British Psychoanalytical Society
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Liberation betrayed by bloodshed
Njabulo S. Ndebele. 2013. Liberation betrayed by bloodshed. Social Dynamics, 39 (1), 111-114. doi: 10.1080/02533952.2013.777558
Publication
Terrorism Before the Letter: Mythography and Political Violence in England, Scotland and France, 1559-1642
Appelbaum, Robert. 2015. Terrorism Before the Letter: Mythography and Political Violence in England, Scotland and France, 1559-1642. Oxford:...
Publication
States of Terror
Simpson, David. 2019. States of Terror. University of Chicago Press. https://doi.org/10.7208/chicago/9780226600369.001.0001
Project
Generation, Democratization and Gang Violence in the Shanties: Haiti and South Africa
In this project, I seek an opportunity at STIAS to write several chapters of a book based on a comparative account of the nexus between violence and democracy in two shantytowns in Haiti and South Africa.
