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Critiquing prescriptions of place and belonging in neoliberal post-apartheid Cape Town: An ethnography on the politics of abjection in language, policy, and practice
Thesis (MA)--Stellenbosch University, 2022.
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| spelling | oai:scholar.sun.ac.za:10019.1/126080 Critiquing prescriptions of place and belonging in neoliberal post-apartheid Cape Town: An ethnography on the politics of abjection in language, policy, and practice Michaels, Angelique Olivia Tayob, Shaheed Stellenbosch University. Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences. Dept. of Sociology and Social Anthropology. CDA (Critical discourse analysis) Sociology, Urban -- South Africa Race relations -- South Africa South Africa -- Politics and government -- 1994- Haven Night Shelter -- South Africa -- Belville Safe Space Shelter -- South Africa -- Cape Town Forshore Post-apartheid era -- South Africa Apartheid -- South Africa Ethnology -- Fieldwork -- Semiotics Shelter for homeless -- Social conditions -- South Africa Haven Night Shelter Welfare Organization HNSWO UCTD Thesis (MA)--Stellenbosch University, 2022. ENGLISH ABSTRACT: This study speaks to politics of race, place, belonging, and of inherited conditions shaping prospects in the post-apartheid present. I consider abjection as it finds expression in urban development discourse and Cape Town’s aspiration to a world-class aesthetic, in media reports discussing homelessness, the rehabilitative interventions geared to address it, and in the material infrastructure and well-meaning rhetorics advanced in shelter contexts. Ethnographic fieldwork, for the most part, was conducted at The Haven Night Shelter in Bellville and the Safe Space, on the Foreshore in Cape Town. Proposing an intertextual approach grounded in material semiotics and inspired by literary and critical theory, I acknowledge the constituting power of discourse, the ideologies and rhetorics inscribed in material things, and the political and social life of infrastructures. I take participants’ perspectives seriously and foreground the experiences of the people towards whom rehabilitative interventions and infrastructures of care are geared. In their aspirations to home and place in spaces not prescribed for them, and in their intimate relations with infrastructures of the city of which they have formulated critiques. These critiques, articulated and lived, are inscribed into their bodies, into the places they inhabit and the streets they traverse. Their stories point to accretive historical and discursive processes, to intergenerational legacies, and the structured conditions they inform. Yet, at the level of everyday practice, they suggest, creativities are enacted and alternative modalities of being, can be conceived. It is the politics and potentialities of transgression that inspires this ethnographic enquiry into homelessness. AFRIKAANSE OPSOMMING: Geen opsomming beskikbaar nie. Masters 2022-11-20T21:42:26Z 2023-01-16T12:49:05Z 2022-11-20T21:42:26Z 2023-01-16T12:49:05Z 2022-12 Thesis http://hdl.handle.net/10019.1/126080 en_ZA Stellenbosch University 156 pages : illustrations application/pdf Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University |
| spellingShingle | CDA (Critical discourse analysis) Sociology, Urban -- South Africa Race relations -- South Africa South Africa -- Politics and government -- 1994- Haven Night Shelter -- South Africa -- Belville Safe Space Shelter -- South Africa -- Cape Town Forshore Post-apartheid era -- South Africa Apartheid -- South Africa Ethnology -- Fieldwork -- Semiotics Shelter for homeless -- Social conditions -- South Africa Haven Night Shelter Welfare Organization HNSWO UCTD Michaels, Angelique Olivia Critiquing prescriptions of place and belonging in neoliberal post-apartheid Cape Town: An ethnography on the politics of abjection in language, policy, and practice |
| title | Critiquing prescriptions of place and belonging in neoliberal post-apartheid Cape Town: An ethnography on the politics of abjection in language, policy, and practice |
| title_full | Critiquing prescriptions of place and belonging in neoliberal post-apartheid Cape Town: An ethnography on the politics of abjection in language, policy, and practice |
| title_fullStr | Critiquing prescriptions of place and belonging in neoliberal post-apartheid Cape Town: An ethnography on the politics of abjection in language, policy, and practice |
| title_full_unstemmed | Critiquing prescriptions of place and belonging in neoliberal post-apartheid Cape Town: An ethnography on the politics of abjection in language, policy, and practice |
| title_short | Critiquing prescriptions of place and belonging in neoliberal post-apartheid Cape Town: An ethnography on the politics of abjection in language, policy, and practice |
| title_sort | critiquing prescriptions of place and belonging in neoliberal post apartheid cape town an ethnography on the politics of abjection in language policy and practice |
| topic | CDA (Critical discourse analysis) Sociology, Urban -- South Africa Race relations -- South Africa South Africa -- Politics and government -- 1994- Haven Night Shelter -- South Africa -- Belville Safe Space Shelter -- South Africa -- Cape Town Forshore Post-apartheid era -- South Africa Apartheid -- South Africa Ethnology -- Fieldwork -- Semiotics Shelter for homeless -- Social conditions -- South Africa Haven Night Shelter Welfare Organization HNSWO UCTD |
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