Pre-print versions of many of the texts below can be found via my ResearchGate page. If you’re interested in accessing a firewalled article or chapter, feel free to email me.
JOURNAL ARTICLES
Risk processing: Mothering in a time of fear. International Sociology (published online 2025).
“Other people are left to live like normal”: White victimhood on lockdown. Transformation 111, 8-28 (2023).
With Ayanda Myeza. “Real men do good sex”: Black South African masculinities in Men’s Clinic adverts. Communicatio 49.3-4, 23-40 (2023).
Lovers not fighters: Afropolitan masculinity in two South African romcoms. Safundi 23.3-4, 189-205 (2022).
Consuming Africa: Safari aesthetics in the Johannesburg beauty industry. Consumption, Markets and Culture, 25.1 (2022).
Expat anxieties: Risk and safety in Cape Town, South Africa and Santiago de Chile. European Journal of Cultural Studies, 25.2 (2021).
With Callan Dunn. You’ve got to be real: Authenticity, performativity and micro-celebrity in South Africa. Frontiers in Sociology. Published online 7 May 2021
On moral panic: Some directions for further development. Critical Sociology, 46.2 (2020)
With Candy Sithole. Mothers, cousins, sisters, friends: Black South African relations in Date My Family. Journal of Critical Diversity Studies. 2.2 (2019).
The exhibited corpse: Spectacle and display in Body Worlds Johannesburg. Critical Arts 32:5-6 (2018)
Sex and the devil: Homosexuality, satanism and moral panic in late apartheid South Africa. Men and Masculinities 22.2 (2018)
“The devil destroyed us”: Satanism and gender violence in contemporary South Africa. Journal of Feminist Media Studies 17.3 (2017)
ENG/AFR: White men in two contemporary South African films. Critical Arts 30.1 (2016)
Out the back: Race and reinvention in Johannesburg’s garden cottages. International Journal of Cultural Studies 19.6 (2016)
A “bloody epidemic”: Whiteness and family murder in late apartheid South Africa. Safundi 14.3 (2013)
Heroes with a half life: Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles and America’s repression of radiophobia after Chernobyl. Journal of Popular Culture 46.5 (2013)
“Satan has come to Rietfontein”: Race in South Africa’s satanic panic. Journal of Southern African Studies 38.4 (2012)
The father, the failure and the self-made man: Masculinity in Mad Men. Critical Quarterly 54.3 (2012)
Apartheid’s demons: Satanism and moral panic in South Africa. Hagar: Studies in Culture, Politics and Identity 9.2 (2010)
Hard bodies and sidelong looks: Spectacle and fetish in 1980s action cinema. Excursions 1.1 (2010)
BOOK CHAPTERS
Nicky Falkof. ‘Victimhood and violence: Weaponising white femininity in South Africa’. In The Routledge Companion to Gender, Media and Violence, eds Karen Boyle and Susan Berrige. (London: Routledge, 2023).
Srila Roy, Nicky Falkof & Shilpa Phadke. ‘Intimacy, injury and #MeToo in India and South Africa’. In Falkof, Roy & Phadke (eds). Intimacy & Injury (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2022).
‘White victimhood and social change’. In Clive Barnett & Richard Ballard (eds), The Routledge Handbook of Social Change. (London: Routledge, 2022)
With Martin J. Murray. ‘Surveillance technology’. In Martin J. Murray, The Infrastructures of Security: Technologies of Risk Management in Johannesburg. (Michigan: University of Michigan Press, 2022)
‘Morality, anxiety and meaning in the media’. In Sarah Chiumbu & Mehita Iqani (eds), Media Studies: Critical African and Decolonial Approaches. (Johannesburg: Oxford University Press Southern Africa, 2020)
‘Patriarchy and Power in the South African News: Competing coverage of the case of Anene Booysen’. In Cynthia Carter, Linda Steiner & Stuart Allan (eds), Journalism, Gender and Power. (London: Routledge. 2019)
‘Satanism and Moral Panic in South Africa’. In Egil Asprem, Asbjørn Dyrendal and David Robertson (eds), Handbook of Conspiracy Theory and Contemporary Religion. (Netherlands: Brill, 2018)
With Mehita Iqani. ‘Race, Privilege and the Personal: Pedagogical Encounters in the Post-Apartheid Media Studies Classroom’. In Ruksana Osman and David Hornsby (eds), Transforming Teaching and Learning in Higher Education (London: Palgrave, 2017)
‘Godard’s Women’ in Laura Mulvey & Colin MacCabe (eds), Godard’s Contempt: New Essays (London: Wiley, 2012)
‘Arnie at the Gates: Race, Barbarity and Star Persona in Conan’ in Jonas Prida (ed), Conan Meets the Academy: Multidisciplinary Essays on the Enduring Barbarian (Carolina: McFarland, 2012)
‘“I’ll Be Black”: Race and Technophobia in 1980s Action Cinema’ in Celestino Deleyto & María del Mar Azcona (eds), Generic Attractions: New Essays in Film Genre Criticism (Paris: Michel Houdiard Éditeur 2010).
COMMENTS AND REVIEWS
With Urvashi Butalia. Making feminist sense in the global south: An interview with Urvashi Butalia. Feminist Theory. Published online 5 January 2022.
Review of Alana Lentin, Why Race Still Matters. International Journal of Critical Diversity Studies 3.1 (2020).
Review of Jean Comaroff & John L. Comaroff, The Truth About Crime. Journal of Southern African Studies 44.3 (2017).
Smooth dudes and fucked up kids: Black masculinity in two contemporary South African films. Comment, Journal of Feminist Media Studies 16.1 (2016).
Review of Shalini Shankar, Advertising Diversity: Ad Agencies and the Creation of Asian American Consumers. Ethnic and Racial Studies 40.3 (2016).
Review of Jemima Pierre, The Predicament of Blackness: Race in Postcolonial Ghana. Africa, 86.3 (2016).
Review of Isak Niehaus, Witchcraft and a Life in the New South Africa. Safundi, 15.1 (2014).
Review of Jonathan Markovitz, Racial Spectacles: Explorations in Media, Race and Justice. Ethnic and Racial Studies 36.7 (2013).
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