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Reading restitution in District Six: law, discourse and 'governmentality'
Includes bibliographical references.
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Department of English Language and Literature
2015
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| author | Macdonald, Robert |
| author2 | Higgins, John |
| author_browse | Higgins, John Macdonald, Robert |
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| institution | University of Cape Town (South Africa) |
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| spelling | oai:open.uct.ac.za:11427/11693 Reading restitution in District Six: law, discourse and 'governmentality' Macdonald, Robert Higgins, John English Includes bibliographical references. This thesis carries out an interdisciplinary textual analysis of the legal documents (primarily contracts and court documents) used to negotiate and fix the terms of the statutory land restitution process in District Six, Cape Town, during the period from 1996 to 2012. Utilizing French philosopher Michel Foucault's theorisation of 'discourse' and 'governmentality', it traces the interweaving of restitution's legislative concepts with heterogeneous political and cultural discourses emanating from District Six's unique history. It is argued that the hybridised configurations of discourse generated by this encounter serve as new instruments of power in the space of this restitution project, lending themselves to a range unintended and sometimes paradoxical material outcomes. 2015-01-07T13:33:33Z 2015-01-07T13:33:33Z 2012 Doctoral Thesis Doctoral PhD http://hdl.handle.net/11427/11693 eng application/pdf Department of English Language and Literature Faculty of Humanities University of Cape Town |
| spellingShingle | English Macdonald, Robert Reading restitution in District Six: law, discourse and 'governmentality' |
| thesis_degree_str | Doctoral |
| title | Reading restitution in District Six: law, discourse and 'governmentality' |
| title_full | Reading restitution in District Six: law, discourse and 'governmentality' |
| title_fullStr | Reading restitution in District Six: law, discourse and 'governmentality' |
| title_full_unstemmed | Reading restitution in District Six: law, discourse and 'governmentality' |
| title_short | Reading restitution in District Six: law, discourse and 'governmentality' |
| title_sort | reading restitution in district six law discourse and governmentality |
| topic | English |
| url | http://hdl.handle.net/11427/11693 |
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