Scott Burnett is a South African critical diversity researcher currently working as an assistant professor in communications at the Department of Applied Information Technology at the University of Gothenburg in Sweden. His research takes an intersectional approach to race, gender, and discourses of the land in traditional and social media texts. He received his doctorate in 2018 from Wits University, Johannesburg, which had the title “Giving back the land: Whiteness and belonging in contemporary South Africa”. He is the author of "White belongings: Race, property and land in post-apartheid South Africa" (which will be published by Lexington Books in 2022) and has published in a number of leading journals including "Men and Masculinities", "Sexualities", "Discourse", "Context & Media", and "Environment and Planning E: Nature and Space".