Raw Life, New Hope Decency, Housing and Everyday Life in a Post-Apartheid Community

• Автор: Ross, Fiona (auth)
• Формат: Електронний ресурс Частина з книги
• Мова: Англійська
• Опубліковано: Cape Town, South Africa UCT Press 2009
• Предмети: Social & cultural anthropology, ethnography; History; informal settlements; shack settlements,Cape Flats; post-apartheid state; formal housing; longitudinal study; Everyday life; HIV; HIV/AIDS; Social relation; South Africa
• Онлайн доступ: OAPEN Library: download the publication; OAPEN Library: description of the publication

Резюме

The Cape Flats, a windswept, barren and sandy area which rings Cape Town, is home to more than a million people. Many live here in sprawling shack settlements. The post-apartheid state is attempting to eradicate such settlements by providing formal houses in planned residential estates. Raw Life, New Hope is a longitudinal study of the residents of one such shack settlement, The Park, who moved to new, 'formal' houses in The Village, at the turn of the millennium. It introduces readers to core social science topics and modes of theorising. Over 17 years the author has traced how ordinary people attempt to live in accord with their ideals of decency under almost impossible circumstances, and the effects of material changes in their lives after 1994, including the provision of housing. Photos, maps, anecdotes, recipes and philosophical reflections on subjects that arose during conversations elicit a sense of the everyday and of how people try to solve the problems of poverty.

ISBN

oapen_628135
9781920499327

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