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Cruel and unusual : aversion therapy and apartheid South Africa’s struggles with white ‘deviant’ behaviour and sexuality
Dissertation (MSocSci (History))--University of Pretoria, 2022.
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| spelling | oai:repository.up.ac.za:2263/89550 Cruel and unusual : aversion therapy and apartheid South Africa’s struggles with white ‘deviant’ behaviour and sexuality Ncube, Glen Brittclarke29@gmail.com Clarke, Brittany UCTD Aversion therpay Homosexuality Science Afrikaner Nationalism Dissertation (MSocSci (History))--University of Pretoria, 2022. This study investigates the role of science, religion, and race in the abusive use of aversion therapy practices in South Africa during the apartheid era to deal with white ‘deviant’ behaviours. Existing literature on aversion therapy in South Africa predominantly focuses on the abusive treatment of homosexuals within the apartheid military. However, this thesis illustrates that aversion therapy treatments were applied to a wider constituency of pathologized individuals, namely drug addicts, alcoholics, and homosexuals. These cohorts were targeted for behaviour ‘rectification’ in order to protect the wider (Afrikaner) society from degeneration. Building on the works of scholars such as Neil Roos, this thesis establishes the pattern of control of white society created by the state through psychosocial and medical engineering. In addition, the thesis explores the roots of the perceived social ills that befell South Africa, namely alcoholism, drug addiction, and homosexuality that threatened to erode apartheid society’s Calvinist morals and customs. Furthermore, the thesis sheds light on the forms of resistance towards the invasive treatment methods used to ‘cure’ perceived ‘social deviances’. Through the study of aversion therapy practises and methods of psychosocial engineering, this thesis will illuminate an awkward moment of an alliance between science, race, and religion. These developments are placed in a comparative international context by looking at how similar practices evolved in places like Britain, Czechoslovakia, and America. Andrew W Mellon Scholarship UP Postgraduate Research Bursary Historical and Heritage Studies MSocSci (History) Unrestricted 2023-02-15T09:28:29Z 2023-02-15T09:28:29Z 2023-05-03 2022 Dissertation * A2023 https://repository.up.ac.za/handle/2263/89550 https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6297-915X en © 2022 University of Pretoria. All rights reserved. The copyright in this work vests in the University of Pretoria. No part of this work may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, without the prior written permission of the University of Pretoria. application/pdf University of Pretoria |
| spellingShingle | UCTD Aversion therpay Homosexuality Science Afrikaner Nationalism Cruel and unusual : aversion therapy and apartheid South Africa’s struggles with white ‘deviant’ behaviour and sexuality |
| title | Cruel and unusual : aversion therapy and apartheid South Africa’s struggles with white ‘deviant’ behaviour and sexuality |
| title_full | Cruel and unusual : aversion therapy and apartheid South Africa’s struggles with white ‘deviant’ behaviour and sexuality |
| title_fullStr | Cruel and unusual : aversion therapy and apartheid South Africa’s struggles with white ‘deviant’ behaviour and sexuality |
| title_full_unstemmed | Cruel and unusual : aversion therapy and apartheid South Africa’s struggles with white ‘deviant’ behaviour and sexuality |
| title_short | Cruel and unusual : aversion therapy and apartheid South Africa’s struggles with white ‘deviant’ behaviour and sexuality |
| title_sort | cruel and unusual aversion therapy and apartheid south africa s struggles with white deviant behaviour and sexuality |
| topic | UCTD Aversion therpay Homosexuality Science Afrikaner Nationalism |
| url | https://repository.up.ac.za/handle/2263/89550 https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6297-915X |