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Safety and belonging : constructing a sense of belonging amongst young, middle-class, South African feminine bodies within an 'unsafe' place
Dissertation (MA (Sociology))--University of Pretoria, 2023.
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| spelling | oai:repository.up.ac.za:2263/96953 Safety and belonging : constructing a sense of belonging amongst young, middle-class, South African feminine bodies within an 'unsafe' place Chadwick, Rachelle Dr u18044060@tuks.co.za Wiele, Simone Sarah-Jane UCTD Belonging Feminism South Africa (SA) Safety Gender-based violence (GBV) Sustainable development goals (SDGs) SDG-05: Gender equality Humanities theses SDG-05 SDG-16: Peace, justice and strong institutions Humanities theses SDG-16 Dissertation (MA (Sociology))--University of Pretoria, 2023. The affective dimension of belonging is theorised to involve feelings of being valued, safety, and agency. However, when applied to the lives of young South African women this conceptualisation falters and reveals its possible patriarchal underpinnings. The lives and belonging(s) of these women are engulfed by what Gqola (2015 & 2021) has aptly conceptualised as a ‘female fear factory’. As a result, this ‘factory’ seeming has instilled a constant awareness of (gendered) unsafety, and thus has made the theorised feelings of belonging appear more as ideals rather than emotive descriptions. In this study twenty young, middle-class, South African women were interviewed (approximately 60 minutes) about how their sense of belonging was constructed and how their experiences of (un)safety have influenced this construction. The interview transcripts were put through three rounds of analysis (thematic, dialogic/performance, and interpretative phenomenological) to produce a possible ‘master narrative’ of the feminine South African sense of belonging. The narrative that was (re)produced revealed that belonging was experienced as a sense of comfort which was curated by feelings of understanding, acceptance, and familiarity/similarity. This ‘comfort-belonging’ was complicated, or rather burdened, by the participants’ race, femininity, and unique sense of (un)safety. Critically, this unique sense of (un)safety highlighted how desensitised the participants had come to (gendered) violence. In turn revealing that feeling unsafe was an integral part of being South African, and thus belonging in/to South Africa. Therefore, this study not only puts forth a possible (re)conceptualisation, and complexities, of the feminine South African sense of belonging; but also illuminates a possible (re)construction of the sense of belonging which involves an unavoidable inclusion of unsafety. Sociology MA (Sociology) Restricted Faculty of Humanities 2024-07-12T09:00:01Z 2024-07-12T09:00:01Z 2024-09 2023-10-17 Dissertation * S2024 http://hdl.handle.net/2263/96953 DOI: https://doi.org/10.25403/UPresearchdata.26242694.v1 10.25403/UPresearchdata.26242694 en © 2023 University of Pretoria. All rights reserved. The copyright in this work vests in the University of Pretoria. No part of this work may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, without the prior written permission of the University of Pretoria. application/pdf University of Pretoria |
| spellingShingle | UCTD Belonging Feminism South Africa (SA) Safety Gender-based violence (GBV) Sustainable development goals (SDGs) SDG-05: Gender equality Humanities theses SDG-05 SDG-16: Peace, justice and strong institutions Humanities theses SDG-16 Safety and belonging : constructing a sense of belonging amongst young, middle-class, South African feminine bodies within an 'unsafe' place |
| title | Safety and belonging : constructing a sense of belonging amongst young, middle-class, South African feminine bodies within an 'unsafe' place |
| title_full | Safety and belonging : constructing a sense of belonging amongst young, middle-class, South African feminine bodies within an 'unsafe' place |
| title_fullStr | Safety and belonging : constructing a sense of belonging amongst young, middle-class, South African feminine bodies within an 'unsafe' place |
| title_full_unstemmed | Safety and belonging : constructing a sense of belonging amongst young, middle-class, South African feminine bodies within an 'unsafe' place |
| title_short | Safety and belonging : constructing a sense of belonging amongst young, middle-class, South African feminine bodies within an 'unsafe' place |
| title_sort | safety and belonging constructing a sense of belonging amongst young middle class south african feminine bodies within an unsafe place |
| topic | UCTD Belonging Feminism South Africa (SA) Safety Gender-based violence (GBV) Sustainable development goals (SDGs) SDG-05: Gender equality Humanities theses SDG-05 SDG-16: Peace, justice and strong institutions Humanities theses SDG-16 |
| url | http://hdl.handle.net/2263/96953 |