The anatomy of ‘race trouble’ in online interactions

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dc.contributor.authorCresswell, Catherine
dc.contributor.authorWhitehead, Kevin A
dc.contributor.authorDurrheim, Kevin
dc.date.accessioned2014-01-23T14:03:20Z
dc.date.available2014-01-23T14:03:20Z
dc.date.issued2014-01
dc.departmentPsychology
dc.description.abstractSouth Africa has a long history of race-related conflicts in a variety of settings, but the use of the concept ‘racism’ to analyse such conflicts is characterized by theoretical and methodological difficulties. In this article, we apply the alternative ‘race trouble’ framework developed by Durrheim, Mtose, and Brown (2011) to the examination of racialized conflicts in online newspaper forums. We analyse the conflicts using an approach informed by conversation analytic and discursive psychological techniques, focusing in particular on the emergence and use of race and racism as interactional resources. Our findings reveal some mechanisms through which the continuing salience of race in South Africa comes to be reproduced in everyday interactions, thereby suggesting reasons why race continues to garner social and cultural importance. Disagreements over the nature of racism were also recurrent in the exchanges that we examined, emonstrating the contested and shifting meanings of this concept in everyday interactions.en_ZA
dc.facultyFaculty of Humanities
dc.identifier.citationCresswell, C., Whitehead, K. A., & Durrheim, K. (2014). The anatomy of “race trouble” in online interactions. Ethnic and Racial Studies. DOI: 10.1080/01419870.2013.854920en_ZA
dc.identifier.issn1466-4356
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net10539/13595
dc.language.isoen_USen_ZA
dc.publisherTaylor & Francisen_ZA
dc.schoolSchool of Human and Community Development
dc.subjectRaceen_ZA
dc.subjectRacismen_ZA
dc.subjectRace troubleen_ZA
dc.subjectConflicten_ZA
dc.subjectOnline interactionsen_ZA
dc.subjectSouth Africaen_ZA
dc.titleThe anatomy of ‘race trouble’ in online interactionsen_ZA
dc.typeArticleen_ZA
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