Books

Monographs

The Devil Made Me Do It: Understanding occult crime in South Africa
(Penguin Random House, 2025)

Reviews, features and excerpts in Netwerk24, Newzroom Afrika, The Conversation, IOL, Polity.org (interview and extract), CapeTalk, News24, Eyewitness News, the Johannesburg Review of Books, the Reading List and Reading Matters.

Worrier State: Risk, anxiety and moral panic in South Africa
(Manchester University Press/ Wits University Press, 2022)

Nominated for Monograph of the Year in the 2023 MeCCSA Outstanding Achievement Awards

Shortlisted for the 2025 Academy of Science of South Africa Humanities Book Award

Reviews, excerpts, interviews and features in Africa, Crime Media Culture, Patterns of Prejudice, Allegra Lab (parts one and two), Mail and Guardian, The Conversation (extract and comment), the Johannesburg Review of Books, News24, Africa is a Country, the Big Issue South Africa, the New Books Network, Doing Sociology (interview and review) and the Cherry Flava podcast

The End of Whiteness 
(Jacana, 2016)

Reviews and excerpts in City Press, The Sunday Times, South African Historical Journal, Historia, The Conversation Africa (here and here) & Writers Write

Satanism and Family Murder in Late Apartheid South Africa (Palgrave, 2015)

Reviews in Africa, Journal of Southern African Studies & Transformation

Ball and Chain: The trouble with modern marriage (Fusion Press, 2007).

Reviews in Socialist Review and Brighton Argus

EDITED BOOKS

Intimacy and Injury: In the wake of #MeToo in India and South Africa. With Srila Roy and Shilpa Phadke (Manchester University Press, 2022; Karavan Press, 2023)

Reviews and excerpts in The Sociological Review, Business Standard, Feminist Encounters, The Wire, Scroll, Feminism India and The Conversation

Anxious Joburg: The inner lives of a global south city. With Cobus van Staden (Wits University Press, 2020)

Reviews and excerpts in Le Monde Diplomatique, Ethnic and Racial Studies, Critical Arts, Wasafiri, The AAG Review of Books, Transformation, This Year’s Work in English Studies, the Centre for Strategic and International Studies blog, Mail and Guardian, the Johannesburg Review of Books and New Frame

On Whiteness. With Oliver Cashman-Brown (Inter-Disciplinary Press, 2012).


BOOK SERIES

Governing Intimacies in the Global South. Co-editor with Srila Roy (Manchester University Press).