Transforming Cape Town / Catherine Besteman.
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)
0520256719 (pbk. : alk. paper)
9780520256705 (alk. paper)
0520256700 (alk. paper)
Publication Details
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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Table of Contents
Introduction: transformation stories
Seduction
Legacies
Ignorance is not bliss
Fieldwork discomforts
Still waiting
Dodging bullets
Identity issues
Transformers
Some lessons.
Seduction
Legacies
Ignorance is not bliss
Fieldwork discomforts
Still waiting
Dodging bullets
Identity issues
Transformers
Some lessons.