Browsing by Author "Van Zyl, Marieke"

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    Heritage and change : the implementation of fishing policy in Kassiesbaai, South Africa, 2007
    (2008) Van Zyl, Marieke
    This dissertation looks at the Marine Living Resources Act of 1998, the manner in which it has been conceptualised and the way that this has influenced its implementation. The focus of the investigation is the historic fishing village of Kassiesbaai on the Cape's south coast, looking at the ways in which discursive differences play out between resident longterm fishermen, the government officials who introduced the new legislation and those who are tasked with implementing it, and a group of marine fisheries experts and researchers who have, or have had, influence over the policy process. Eight weeks of fieldwork were undertaken in Kassiesbaai January to March 2007, focussing on the longterm resident fishermen and their families. Observation, interviews, informal discussions and everyday interaction were the primary methods of data collection, supplemented by archival and publications research. The second phase of research involved further follow-up visits and interviews and correspondence with relevant parties in Marine and Coastal Management and scientists working in the marine fisheries sector. It is argued that the failure in this instance of these three groups to successfully engage with one another over the issue of marine resource management stems from the lack of trust between these groups, exacerbated by the variant ways in which central issues are framed by each. The primary difference concerns the manner in which the ocean is imagined. A filrther discrepancy concerns temporality, the manner in which time is conceptualised and actions scheduled or expected due to respective conceptions. The third main discrepancy which affects the process is the values that are attributed to the ocean by those who use it and speak of it. T heritage status of Kassiesbaai is discussed, and the conclusion drawn that while it is imperative to value the historical nature of the village and its residents, plans for their present and future must not suffer for it. From here, the possibility of dialogue is investigated in order to plot a path towards successful socio-ecological development that will both protect the biological stability of the sea and the socia-economic well-being of the impoverished community of Kassiesbaai.
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    Narratief en trauma in die oeuvre van Etienne van Heerden
    (2008) Van Zyl, Marieke; Van der Merwe, Chris N
    Die tesis ondersoek die intertekstuele gesprek in Van Heerden se oeuvre met betrekking tot die temas van narratief, trauma en heling. Teoretiese uitgangspunte vanuit literere en sielkundige ondersoekterreine word gebruik. Ek fokus op narratief en trauma in Van Heerden se romans Matoli (1978), Toorberg (1986), Casspirs en Campari 's (1991), Die stoetmeester (1993), Kikoejoe (1996), Die sYrye van Mario Salviati (2000), In stede van die liefde (2005) en Asbesmiddag (2007). Verskillende fasette van die verwerking van trauma op individuele en kollektiewe vlak, wat regdeur Van Heerden se werk loop, word ondersoek. Daar word gekyk na die temas van verwonding en verskeurdheid en die moontlikheid van heling en versoening in Van Heerden se romans. Die verwerking en herskryf van die verlede, op individuele en kollektiewe vlak; kwessies rondom identiteit nadat 'n lewensnarratief deur trauma verwoes is; die soeke na 'n nuwe toekoms en versoening, versoening met die self, in die gesin en in die land word ondersoek in terme van narratief en trauma. Daar word gekyk na die temas van die verwerking van die verlede, die skuldgevoel van Suid-Afrikaners gedurende en na apartheid, en die verwonding van mense gedurende apartheid. Onderdrukte fasette van die geskiedenis kom na vore in Van Heerden se oeuvre, wat 'n stem gee aan diegene wat in die Suid-Afrikaanse geskiedskrywing gemarginaliseer is. Die soeke na identiteit mi 'n traumatiese belewenis en die (on-)moontlikheid van he ling is sentrale temas by Van Heerden. Daar word ondersoek ingestel na die intertekstuele 'gesprek' tussen Van Heerden se romans aangaande sentrale temas wat op mekaar bou in sy werk. Van Heerden se oeuvre bevestig die helende potensiaal van narratief deur die wyse waarop die temas van verwonding en heling, wat deurlopend in sy werk voorkom, uitgebeeld word.