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oapen-20.500.12657-314382021-11-15T08:23:07Z Raw Life, New Hope Ross, Fiona History informal settlements shack settlements,Cape Flats post-apartheid state formal housing longitudinal study Everyday life HIV HIV/AIDS Social relation South Africa bic Book Industry Communication::J Society & social sciences::JH Sociology & anthropology::JHM Anthropology::JHMC Social & cultural anthropology, ethnography The Cape Flats, a windswept, barren and sandy area which rings Cape Town, is home to more than a million people. Many live here in sprawling shack settlements. The post-apartheid state is attempting to eradicate such settlements by providing formal houses in planned residential estates. Raw Life, New Hope is a longitudinal study of the residents of one such shack settlement, The Park, who moved to new, 'formal' houses in The Village, at the turn of the millennium. It introduces readers to core social science topics and modes of theorising. Over 17 years the author has traced how ordinary people attempt to live in accord with their ideals of decency under almost impossible circumstances, and the effects of material changes in their lives after 1994, including the provision of housing. Photos, maps, anecdotes, recipes and philosophical reflections on subjects that arose during conversations elicit a sense of the everyday and of how people try to solve the problems of poverty. 2017-04-01 23:55:55 2020-01-27 14:15:15 2020-04-01T13:35:18Z 2020-04-01T13:35:18Z 2009 book 628135 OCN: 1028759936 9781920499327 http://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/31438 eng application/pdf n/a 628135.pdf UCT Press 10.26530/oapen_628135 100294 10.26530/oapen_628135 244c00cc-5564-4792-89c6-11fed3a3ad6f b818ba9d-2dd9-4fd7-a364-7f305aef7ee9 9781920499327 Knowledge Unlatched (KU) Cape Town, South Africa 100294 KU Select 2016 Backlist Collection Knowledge Unlatched open access
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The Cape Flats, a windswept, barren and sandy area which rings Cape Town, is home to more than a million people. Many live here in sprawling shack settlements. The post-apartheid state is attempting to eradicate such settlements by providing formal houses in planned residential estates. Raw Life, New Hope is a longitudinal study of the residents of one such shack settlement, The Park, who moved to new, 'formal' houses in The Village, at the turn of the millennium. It introduces readers to core social science topics and modes of theorising. Over 17 years the author has traced how ordinary people attempt to live in accord with their ideals of decency under almost impossible circumstances, and the effects of material changes in their lives after 1994, including the provision of housing. Photos, maps, anecdotes, recipes and philosophical reflections on subjects that arose during conversations elicit a sense of the everyday and of how people try to solve the problems of poverty.
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