Scott Burnett
Special guest
Scott Burnett is an assistant professor of African Studies and Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at the Pennsylvania State University and a research affiliate at the Wits Centre for Diversity Studies in Johannesburg. His research focuses on exclusionary discourses of race, gender, and sexuality in a range of contexts from online masculinist influencers to the mainstream environmental movement. He is the author of White belongings: Race, land, and property in post-apartheid South Africa (Lexington, 2022) as well as articles in leading journals including Men and Masculinities and Gender and Language. His book Analysing environmental discourse: A critical approach is forthcoming with Bloomsbury Academic.
Scott Burnett has been a guest on 1 episode.
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Episode 57: The New Hard Right: Linguistic Anthropology and Far-Right Gender Trouble with Cat Tebaldi and Scott Burnett
April 29th, 2025 | Season 2 | 1 hr 12 mins
extremism, gender, hard right, new right
Drs Cat Tebaldi and Scott Burnett join the pod to discuss gender and the far right through the lens of linguistic anthropology. We discuss the "moral flavor" of hardness apropos their recent, in-depth study of the far-right web magazine Man's World, Christian Nationalist gender constructs, and how to square up that jawline!