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Beyond blood: experiences of kinship by previously incarcerated women in Cape Town, South Africa
Thesis (MA)--Stellenbosch University, 2025.
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| author | Van der Linde, Michaela |
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| spelling | oai:scholar.sun.ac.za:10019.1/132374 Beyond blood: experiences of kinship by previously incarcerated women in Cape Town, South Africa Van der Linde, Michaela Walters, Handri Stellenbosch University. Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences. Dept. of Sociology and Social Anthropology. Kinship -- South Africa -- Cape Town Women prisoners -- South Afria -- Cape Town -- Social conditions Ex-convicts -- South Africa -- Cape Town Female offenders -- Rehabilitation -- South Africa -- Cape Town Community-based corrections -- South Africa -- Cape Town Women -- Social conditions -- South Africa -- Cape Town UCTD Thesis (MA)--Stellenbosch University, 2025. Van der Linde, M. 2025. Beyond blood: experiences of kinship by previously incarcerated women in Cape Town, South Africa. Unpublished masters thesis. Stellenbosch: Stellenbosch University [online]. Available: https://scholar.sun.ac.za/items/e4b760a9-3787-4f33-a1fa-46f3c65bfc8d ENGLISH ABSTRACT: This ethnography explores the multifaceted dynamics and experiences of kinship as told by previously incarcerated women in Cape Town, South Africa, focusing on both biological and non-biological forms of kinship. Through qualitative interviews with five formerly incarcerated women, this study reveals the various ways in which kinship can be constituted and reconstituted in the post-incarceration context. The experiences of these women challenge the normative assumptions of the South African state that the biological family is the most important mechanism for the successful rehabilitation and reintegration of formerly incarcerated individuals into mainstream society. Instead, it was found that their kin relationships established through the support and care from non-governmental organisations, and their kin relationship with the Christian God, were perceived as the main catalysts for their successful rehabilitation and reintegration into broader society after release from prison. In understanding kinship, this study foregrounds Marshall Sahlins’ (2013) definition of kinship as the ‘mutuality of being’ to make sense of how the women in this study were able to mutually and actively participate, engage and connect with their kinship network during imprisonment, and if (and then how) their incarceration impacted this mutual participation and connection in the context of post-incarceration. In addition, I also draw on the work of Janet Carsten to understand the complexities and nuances of kinship. AFRIKAANSE OPSOMMING: Geen opsomming beskikbaar nie. Masters 2025-06-05T08:31:24Z 2025-06-05T08:31:24Z 2025-03 Thesis https://scholar.sun.ac.za/handle/10019.1/132374 en_ZA Stellenbosch University 64 pages application/pdf Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University |
| spellingShingle | Kinship -- South Africa -- Cape Town Women prisoners -- South Afria -- Cape Town -- Social conditions Ex-convicts -- South Africa -- Cape Town Female offenders -- Rehabilitation -- South Africa -- Cape Town Community-based corrections -- South Africa -- Cape Town Women -- Social conditions -- South Africa -- Cape Town UCTD Van der Linde, Michaela Beyond blood: experiences of kinship by previously incarcerated women in Cape Town, South Africa |
| title | Beyond blood: experiences of kinship by previously incarcerated women in Cape Town, South Africa |
| title_full | Beyond blood: experiences of kinship by previously incarcerated women in Cape Town, South Africa |
| title_fullStr | Beyond blood: experiences of kinship by previously incarcerated women in Cape Town, South Africa |
| title_full_unstemmed | Beyond blood: experiences of kinship by previously incarcerated women in Cape Town, South Africa |
| title_short | Beyond blood: experiences of kinship by previously incarcerated women in Cape Town, South Africa |
| title_sort | beyond blood experiences of kinship by previously incarcerated women in cape town south africa |
| topic | Kinship -- South Africa -- Cape Town Women prisoners -- South Afria -- Cape Town -- Social conditions Ex-convicts -- South Africa -- Cape Town Female offenders -- Rehabilitation -- South Africa -- Cape Town Community-based corrections -- South Africa -- Cape Town Women -- Social conditions -- South Africa -- Cape Town UCTD |
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