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Contestations over urban space: exploring the discourse and dynamics between residents in Hermanus, Zwelihle and Dubai in a post-protest environment
Thesis (MA)--Stellenbosch University, 2021.
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| spelling | oai:scholar.sun.ac.za:10019.1/124232 Contestations over urban space: exploring the discourse and dynamics between residents in Hermanus, Zwelihle and Dubai in a post-protest environment Van der Westhuizen, Nicola Tayob, Shaheed Stellenbosch University. Faculty of Sociology and Social Anthropology. Dept. of Sociology and Social Anthropology. Discourse analysis -- Social aspects -- Hermanus (Cape of Good Hope, South Africa) Social movements -- Hermanus (Cape of Good Hope, South Africa) Urbanization -- Hermanus (Cape of Good Hope, South Africa) Squatter settlements -- Hermanus (Cape of Good Hope, South Africa) Strikes and lockouts -- Municipal government -- Hermanus (Cape of Good Hope, South Africa) Urban anthropology -- Hermanus (Cape of Good Hope, South Africa) Thesis (MA)--Stellenbosch University, 2021. ENGLISH ABSTRACT: This thesis analyses the question of what the discourse and dynamics between the residents of Hermanus, and those from Zwelihle and Dubai, reveal about contestations over urban space in a post-protest environment. In 2018 residents of Zwelihle, a semiinformal settlement outside of Hermanus, took part in protests over a piece of land (Schulphoek) in Hermanus originally earmarked for the development of low-cost housing, however after the municipality sold the land in 2010 to private property developers, no housing came to fruition. The protests ended in the occupation of Schulphoek and thus the creation of the informal settlement ‘Dubai’. Thus, the expansion of informal settlements has led the residents of Hermanus to continuously partake in exclusionary discourse regarding the informal settlers in which the tensions between the middle- and upper-class residents and the urban poor are situated. The research for this thesis was concerned with online interviews and critical discourse analysis. Here, the discourse analysis reveals how the politics of property and acts of rebellion frame the way residents relate to space, and when considering issues regarding development there is a clear distinction between development focused on ‘aesthetics’ versus ‘necessity’. Moreover, the protests and land occupation provide an insight into how the urban poor lay a claim to the state and municipality through relations of ‘obligation’, in that the municipality and state are still indebted to the urban poor. Thus, this thesis argues that critical discourse analysis is crucial to understanding contestations over urban space, and that underlying all of this is contesting fears and aspirations motivated by poor municipal governance and lack of urban planning. AFRIKAANS OPSOMMING: Hierdie tesis ontleed die vraag oor wat die diskoers en dinamika tussen die inwoners van Hermanus, en diegene uit Zwelihle en Dubai, openbaar oor die stryd oor stedelike ruimte in 'n post-protesomgewing. In 2018 het inwoners van Zwelihle, 'n semiinformele nedersetting buite Hermanus, deelgeneem aan protesoptogte oor 'n stuk grond in Hermanus wat oorspronklik bestem was vir die ontwikkeling van goedkoop behuising, maar nadat die munisipaliteit die grond in 2010 aan private eiendomsontwikkelaars verkoop het, het geen behuising tot stand gekom nie. Die protesoptogte het geëindig in die besetting van Schulphoek en dus met die skepping van die informele nedersetting 'Dubai'. Die uitbreiding van informele nedersettings het daartoe gelei dat die inwoners van Hermanus voortdurend deelgeneem het aan uitsluitingsdiskoers oor die informele setlaars waarin die spanning tussen die middelen hoërklasbewoners en die stedelike armes geleë is. Die navorsing vir hierdie proefskrif handel oor aanlynonderhoude en kritiese diskoersanalise. Hier openbaar die diskoersanalise hoe die eiendomspolitiek en rebelliedade die manier waarop inwoners met ruimte verband hou, omskryf, en as daar oor ontwikkelingsvraagstukke gekyk word, is daar 'n duidelike onderskeid tussen ontwikkeling wat fokus op 'estetika' versus 'noodsaaklikheid'. Boonop bied die protesoptredes en grondbesetting 'n insig in hoe die stedelike armes aanspraak maak op die staat en die munisipaliteit deur verhoudings van 'verpligting', omdat die munisipaliteit en die staat nogsteeds by die armes in die skuld staan. Hierdie tesis voer dus aan dat kritiese diskoersanalise van kardinale belang is om die stryd oor die stedelike ruimte te verstaan, en dat alles hieroor die stryd is met vrese en aspirasies wat gemotiveer word deur swak munisipale bestuur en gebrek aan stedelike beplanning. Masters 2021-12-06T11:22:33Z 2022-02-22T10:18:23Z 2021-12-06T11:22:33Z 2021-12 Thesis http://hdl.handle.net/10019.1/124232 en_ZA Stellenbosch University v, 97 pages : illustrations application/pdf Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University |
| spellingShingle | Discourse analysis -- Social aspects -- Hermanus (Cape of Good Hope, South Africa) Social movements -- Hermanus (Cape of Good Hope, South Africa) Urbanization -- Hermanus (Cape of Good Hope, South Africa) Squatter settlements -- Hermanus (Cape of Good Hope, South Africa) Strikes and lockouts -- Municipal government -- Hermanus (Cape of Good Hope, South Africa) Urban anthropology -- Hermanus (Cape of Good Hope, South Africa) Van der Westhuizen, Nicola Contestations over urban space: exploring the discourse and dynamics between residents in Hermanus, Zwelihle and Dubai in a post-protest environment |
| title | Contestations over urban space: exploring the discourse and dynamics between residents in Hermanus, Zwelihle and Dubai in a post-protest environment |
| title_full | Contestations over urban space: exploring the discourse and dynamics between residents in Hermanus, Zwelihle and Dubai in a post-protest environment |
| title_fullStr | Contestations over urban space: exploring the discourse and dynamics between residents in Hermanus, Zwelihle and Dubai in a post-protest environment |
| title_full_unstemmed | Contestations over urban space: exploring the discourse and dynamics between residents in Hermanus, Zwelihle and Dubai in a post-protest environment |
| title_short | Contestations over urban space: exploring the discourse and dynamics between residents in Hermanus, Zwelihle and Dubai in a post-protest environment |
| title_sort | contestations over urban space exploring the discourse and dynamics between residents in hermanus zwelihle and dubai in a post protest environment |
| topic | Discourse analysis -- Social aspects -- Hermanus (Cape of Good Hope, South Africa) Social movements -- Hermanus (Cape of Good Hope, South Africa) Urbanization -- Hermanus (Cape of Good Hope, South Africa) Squatter settlements -- Hermanus (Cape of Good Hope, South Africa) Strikes and lockouts -- Municipal government -- Hermanus (Cape of Good Hope, South Africa) Urban anthropology -- Hermanus (Cape of Good Hope, South Africa) |
| url | http://hdl.handle.net/10019.1/124232 |
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