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Changing identities in urban South Africa : an interpretation of narratives in Cape Town
Thesis (DPhil (Sociology and Social Anthropology))--Stellenbosch University, 2008.
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| author | Leilde, Anne C. |
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| spelling | oai:scholar.sun.ac.za:10019.1/1272 Changing identities in urban South Africa : an interpretation of narratives in Cape Town Leilde, Anne C. Bekker, S. B. Stellenbosch University. Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences. Dept. of Sociology and Social Anthropology. Identity Cape Town Social change Cape Town Identity narratives Cape Town Dissertations -- Sociology Theses -- Sociology Thesis (DPhil (Sociology and Social Anthropology))--Stellenbosch University, 2008. Identity reflects and aims to control one’s experience. It is an act of consciousness which is neither essential nor immutable but a social construct open to change as circumstances, strategies and interactions fluctuate. It needs therefore to be situated historically and relationally, as identity is a matter of social context. This thesis sets out to investigate processes of identity formation in post-apartheid South Africa, i.e. a context marked by deep changes at both symbolic/material structural levels, in particular within the urban setup. On the basis of focus group discussions with residents of Cape Town, various, and at times contradictory, strategies of identification are explored. Residents’ discourses are analysed on the basis of two entry points, that of the context or the ‘scale’ within which discourse occurs (from the local, to the urban, the national and the continental) and that of the traditional categories of class, race and culture. The narratives that urban citizens draw upon to make sense of their lives and environment illuminate the emergence of new social boundaries among citizens which, though volatile and situational, reveal a changing picture of South Africa as a nation. Doctoral 2008-11-18T10:31:14Z 2010-06-01T08:17:02Z 2008-11-18T10:31:14Z 2010-06-01T08:17:02Z 2008-12 Thesis http://hdl.handle.net/10019.1/1272 en Stellenbosch University application/pdf Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University |
| spellingShingle | Identity Cape Town Social change Cape Town Identity narratives Cape Town Dissertations -- Sociology Theses -- Sociology Leilde, Anne C. Changing identities in urban South Africa : an interpretation of narratives in Cape Town |
| title | Changing identities in urban South Africa : an interpretation of narratives in Cape Town |
| title_full | Changing identities in urban South Africa : an interpretation of narratives in Cape Town |
| title_fullStr | Changing identities in urban South Africa : an interpretation of narratives in Cape Town |
| title_full_unstemmed | Changing identities in urban South Africa : an interpretation of narratives in Cape Town |
| title_short | Changing identities in urban South Africa : an interpretation of narratives in Cape Town |
| title_sort | changing identities in urban south africa an interpretation of narratives in cape town |
| topic | Identity Cape Town Social change Cape Town Identity narratives Cape Town Dissertations -- Sociology Theses -- Sociology |
| url | http://hdl.handle.net/10019.1/1272 |
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