Transforming Cape Town / Catherine Besteman.
Besteman, Catherine Lowe.
2008
HN801.C36 B47 2008 (Mapit)
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Title Transforming Cape Town / Catherine Besteman.
Author Besteman, Catherine Lowe.
ISBN 9780520256712 (pbk. : alk. paper)
0520256719 (pbk. : alk. paper)
9780520256705 (alk. paper)
0520256700 (alk. paper)
Imprint Berkeley : University of California Press, c2008.
Language English
Description xii, 296 p. : ill., map ; 23 cm.
Call Number HN801.C36 B47 2008
Dewey Decimal Classification 307.76096873/55
Summary This study provides a window into the lives of ordinary South Africans more than ten years after the end of apartheid, with the promises of the democracy movement remaining largely unfulfilled. Catherine Besteman explores the emotional and personal aspects of the transition to black majority rule by homing in on intimate questions of love, family, and community and capturing the complex, sometimes contradictory voices of a wide variety of Capetonians. Her evaluation of the physical and psychic costs to individuals involved in working for social change is grounded in the experiences of the participants and illu-minates two overarching dimensions of life in Cape Town: the aggregate forces determined to maintain the apartheid-era status quo, and the grassroots efforts to effect social change.
Bibliography, etc. Note Includes bibliographical references and index.
Series California series in public anthropology ; 19.
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Introduction: transformation stories
Seduction
Legacies
Ignorance is not bliss
Fieldwork discomforts
Still waiting
Dodging bullets
Identity issues
Transformers
Some lessons.

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