Transforming Cape Town
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Transforming Cape Town
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Author : Catherine Besteman
language : en
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Release Date : 2008-09-02
Transforming Cape Town written by Catherine Besteman and has been published by Univ of California Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008-09-02 with Social Science categories.
“An engaging, insightful and at times beautifully written account of post-apartheid transformation in the city of Cape Town. Besteman shows the continuing legacy of apartheid, racial segregation and poverty in South Africa as well as glimpses of new forms of cultural creativity and identity formation that are characterized by empathy, compassion, and hope. Transforming Cape Town deserves to be read by anthropologists and anyone interested in how people confront the challenges of racial exclusion and historical inequality, and how a few bold agents of transformation seek to create new social spaces to cross old barriers.”—Richard A. Wilson, author of The Politics of Truth and Reconciliation in South Africa “Cape Town and anthropology come alive in Besteman's work. Insightful, dynamic, and well-written, this book opens a 'space of trust' to understanding the pains and creative innovations of transition—of people, politics, and daily survival—in a new light.”—Carolyn Nordstrom, author of Global Outlaws and Shadows of War “Besteman navigates and illuminates post-apartheid Cape Town with uncommon skill. She brings to bear an anthropologist's training, a reporter's eye and ear for the choice remark, the telling detail and a candid sympathy for the disenfranchised, whose lot in South Africa has not necessarily improved under democracy. It's a distressing picture she draws: the persisting mutual ignorance, even reciprocal demonization, across old ethnic and racial lines, alongside the ongoing economic injustice. The revolution in South Africa has been a piecemeal affair, and Besteman's descriptions of the difficulties that even the best-intentioned individuals encounter as they struggle toward creating a general social transformation ring painfully true.”—William Finnegan, author of Crossing the Line, Dateline Soweto, A Complicated War, and Cold New World “Transforming Cape Town is a fascinating account of how people in this divided city engage with democracy, transformation, and the legacies and ongoing realities of radical inequalities. Through conversations with ordinary people, Besteman explores the ways in which apartheid's legacies continue to shape interactions both intimate and public. In doing so, she restores a sense of faith in anthropology as a tool for understanding and critiquing social worlds.”—Fiona Ross, author of Bearing Witness: Women and Truth and Reconciliation
Colonial Heritage And Urban Transformation In The Global South
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Author : Christian Ernsten
language : en
Publisher: Springer Nature
Release Date : 2021-10-27
Colonial Heritage And Urban Transformation In The Global South written by Christian Ernsten and has been published by Springer Nature this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-10-27 with Law categories.
This book traces and analyses the role of heritage in the urban transformation of the city of Cape Town. By looking at discourses of heritage and urban design, the book shows how Cape Town positions itself as an emerging global city in the context of a series of global events. The book points at how a heritage focus on the themes of post-colonial and post-apartheid reconciliation, restitution and memory in the city shifts to a focus on creativity, design and the arts. Thereby showing how traumatic remnants of colonialism and apartheid are reframed as “design challenges”. Furthermore, it argues that the idea of a transformed society is projected into a future time and the chaotic present everyday life is left to its own devices. Against this backdrop, the book lays out the opportunities for epistemological reset and decolonial reflection on the city’s deep histories, its embedded injustices and traumas that surfaced.
Transforming Cape Town
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Author : Catherine Besteman
language : en
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Release Date : 2008-09-02
Transforming Cape Town written by Catherine Besteman and has been published by Univ of California Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008-09-02 with Social Science categories.
This study provides a window into the lives of ordinary South Africans more than ten years after the end of apartheid, with the promises of the democracy movement remaining largely unfulfilled. Catherine Besteman explores the emotional and personal aspects of the transition to black majority rule by homing in on intimate questions of love, family, and community and capturing the complex, sometimes contradictory voices of a wide variety of Capetonians. Her evaluation of the physical and psychic costs to individuals involved in working for social change is grounded in the experiences of the participants and illu-minates two overarching dimensions of life in Cape Town: the aggregate forces determined to maintain the apartheid-era status quo, and the grassroots efforts to effect social change.
Challenge And Transformation
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Author : Katherine J. Goodnow
language : en
Publisher: Berghahn Books
Release Date : 2006
Challenge And Transformation written by Katherine J. Goodnow and has been published by Berghahn Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006 with Art categories.
This publication looks at how change takes place in museums. Built around a series of case studies outlining the way ethnographic museums, historic sites and art galleries come to terms with issues of diversity and change, it is devoted to exploring diversity and promoting intercultural dialogue in museum practice.--Publisher's description.
Cape Town
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Author : Nigel Worden
language : en
Publisher: Uitgeverij Verloren
Release Date : 1998
Cape Town written by Nigel Worden and has been published by Uitgeverij Verloren this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1998 with Cape Town (South Africa) categories.
Emergency On Planet Cape Town
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Author : Antje Nahnsen
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2006
Emergency On Planet Cape Town written by Antje Nahnsen and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006 with Apartheid categories.
'Emergency on planet Cape Town' introduces the emotional production of urban space as an important dimension for understanding urban dynamics in post-conflict societies such as South Africa. Drawing on a wide range of geographical, sociological, anthropological and psycho-analytical literature and on an analysis of three contemporary examples of urban transformation projects in the City of Cape Town, the author suggests that current integration politics are failing because of a lack of recognition of the politics of emotion that have shaped the city in the past. What is needed, argues the author, is a spatial politics of reconciliation that addresses both the emotional meaning attached to urban spaces, but also the very concept and image of Cape Town as a European city. engl.
Ambiguous Restructurings Of Post Apartheid Cape Town
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Author : Christoph Haferburg
language : en
Publisher: LIT Verlag Münster
Release Date : 2003
Ambiguous Restructurings Of Post Apartheid Cape Town written by Christoph Haferburg and has been published by LIT Verlag Münster this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2003 with History categories.
What will tomorrow's Cape Town look like? This volume reflects a variety of aspects of urban development and restructuring efforts in Cape Town in the last years. A focus lies on the question if the "apartheid city" is reproducing itself. This leads to an evaluation whether current policies really counter societal imbalances. The essays presented here illuminate possible pathways towards the urban futures unfolding in a South African city in transition.
Laying Ghosts To Rest
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Author : Mamphela Ramphele
language : en
Publisher: Tafelberg
Release Date : 2008
Laying Ghosts To Rest written by Mamphela Ramphele and has been published by Tafelberg this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008 with Business & Economics categories.
A penetrating look at the South African transition and what is wrong with it, by a prominent commentator
South Africa
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Author : Hein Marais
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1998
South Africa written by Hein Marais and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1998 with Business & Economics categories.
This book explains the reasons why the ANC, now that it is in power, has resisted calls for more radical options and instead pursued quite conservative economic management policies.
Counter Currents
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Author : Edgar A. Pieterse
language : en
Publisher: Jacana Media
Release Date : 2010
Counter Currents written by Edgar A. Pieterse and has been published by Jacana Media this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010 with Architecture categories.
"The City of Cape Town is heading for disaster and is already in deep crisis if one cares to look close enough. The recent proliferation of public construction, public squares and public housing along the N2 towards the airport is little more than a mirage compared with the direction of more underlying trends. Cape Town's grim future is born out of the confluence of the globalised economic and ecological collapse that is fast becoming the defining feature of the twenty-first century. It is manifested most starkly in the dire situation that faces the majority of the city's residents, who are excluded from the formal economy and must rely on substandard public services and their own makeshift shelters. The scenario is serious enough to draw everyone's attention but should be set against the broader issues of long-term economic resilience and environmental sustainability to achieve a low-carbon society - so we have our work cut out for us. The purpose of this volume is to demystify these challenges and present readers with a creative portfolio of thinking, practice and strong vision to show that we can find alternatives - and, moreover, that these alternatives are already emerging in (marginal) sections of the state, civil society and the business sectors."--Introduction.