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AllPay and no work: spheres of belonging under duress

Author: Versfeld, Anna Date: 2012 AllPay and No Work explores the consequences of post-apartheid political-economic changes on the social fabric of Manenberg, a residential neighbourhood on the Cape Flats, Cape Town. I show that despite the important benefits of codified human ... Read more
Ambitions of cidade : war-displacement and concepts of the urban among bairro residents in Benguela, Angola

Author: Roque, Sandra Date: 2009 The dissertation explores concepts of upward social mobility, proper personhood and processes of social change as a result of the rural-urban migration provoked by the war in post-colonial Angola between 1975 and 2002. The study focuses on ... Read more
Ambitions of Cidade: War-Displacement and concepts of the urban among bairro residents in Benguela, Angola

Author: Rogue, Sandra Date: 2009 The dissertation explores concepts of upward social mobility, proper personhood and processes of social change as a result of the rural - urban migration provoked by the war in post-colonial Angola between 1975 and 2002. The study focuses on ... Read more
As long as they don't bury me here : social relations of poverty in a Southern African shantytown

Author: Tvedten, Inge Date: 2008 Focusing on four shantytowns in the northern Namibian town of Oshakati, this study analyses the coping strategies of the poorest sections of such populations. I ask what it is that enables some people living in oppressed and poor urban ... Read more
Bearing witness : women and the South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission

Author: Ross, Fiona C Date: 2000 Summary in English. Bibliography: p. 206-215. Read more
Conflicted cure: explorting concepts of default and adherence in drug resistant tuberculosis patients in Khayelitsha

Author: Winterton, Laura Date: 2013 This dissertation examines default and adherence in drug-resistant tuberculosis (DR-TB) patients in Khayelitsha, Cape Town, South Africa. The ethnographic data is drawn from three and a half months of participant-observation, illness-narrative ... Read more
Cultivations on the frontiers of modernity : power, welfare and belonging on commercial farms before and after "fast-track land reform" in Zimbabwe

Author: Hartnack, Andrew Michael Carl Date: 2015 Forms of power on commercial farms and power relations between white farm owners and black farmworkers in Zimbabwe have been explored by scholars such as Clarke (1977), Loewenson (1992), Amanor-Wilks (1995), Tandon (2001) and especially ... Read more
Enduring "lateness": biomedicalisation and the unfolding of reproductive life, sociality, and antenatal care

Author: Ferreira, Nicole Date: 2016 The dissertation examines how pregnant women seeking antenatal care at a state facility in the Southern Peninsula of Cape Town conceptualise and experience their pregnancies in relation to the biomedical model that informs state practices of ... Read more
Fruit of the Vine, work of human hands : farm workers and alcohol on a farm in Stellenbosch, South Africa

Author: De Kock, Alana Eileen Date: 2002 I argue that alcohol is embedded in forces of structural violence that create circumstances of social suffering amongst farm workers in the Western Cape. argue that the labour relations on the research farm are shot through with violence and ... Read more
Girls in war, women in peace : reintegration and (in)justice in post-war Mozambique

Author: Bunker, Lillian K Date: 2011 This study explores the longitudinal reintegration of girls involved in the post-independence war in Mozambique using in-depth qualitative research based on semi-structured interviews, and a wide range of documents. Piecing together the ... Read more
HIV/AIDS, food insecurity and the burden of history: An ethnographic study from North-eastern Tanzania

Author: Mangesho, Peter Ernest Date: 2011 The main argument in this study draws on ethnographic research conducted in Maramba, a rural community in north eastern Tanzania, with poor people living with HIV/AIDS who struggled to obtain food, care and support in spite of the availability ... Read more
Homes or houses? : strategies of home-making among some amaXhosa in the Western Cape

Author: Ngxabi, Ntombizodumo Emmerencia Date: 2003 Bibliography: leaves 148-152. Read more
Houses without doors : diffusing domesticity in Die Bos

Author: Ross, Fiona C Date: 1993 This ethnography is the product of fourteen months of communication with residents of a squatter settlement near Somerset West in the Western Cape. The thesis explores the ways in which domestic relationships altered over the research period, ... Read more
Imagined communities, divided realities : engaging the apartheid past through 'healing of memories' in a post-TRC South Africa

Author: Kayser, Undine Date: 2005 The dissertation argues that, in the attempt to build a shared democratic culture among ordinary citizens in post-apartheid South Africa, insufficient attention has been paid to transformations of interpersonal domains. The dissertation ... Read more
Knowledge, chivanhu and struggles for survival in conflict-torn Manicaland, Zimbabwe

Author: Nhemachena, Artwell Date: 2014 This dissertation explored how villagers in a district of Manicaland province of Zimbabwe deeply affected by violence and want survived the violence that has characterised Zimbabwe’s most recent politics (from the year 2000). Marked by invasions ... Read more
Memory, language, self and time : personhood and relationship in dementia

Author: Grant, Jennifer Date: 2013 This dissertation contributes to an understanding of how the entanglement of language, memory, self, and time in contemporary Western thought shapes assumptions about the personhood status of elderly persons with dementia and their capacity ... Read more
Milk, meaning and morality : tracing donated breast milk from donor to baby

Author: Waltz, Miriam H A Date: 2015 This thesis follows the trajectory of donated breast milk as it leaves the dyadic mother-child relationship and is reconfigured through a series of transformations as bodily fluid, food, or medicine, depending on its context and the practices ... Read more
Mothers matter: a critical exploration of motherhood and development through a video card intervention in a local clinic

Author: Marais, Kylie Date: 2017 New discourses of foetal and infant development, individual well-being and population futures, argue that mothers matter during the first thousand days of a baby's life, which commences from conception to the age of two. Women, particularly ... Read more
Raw life, new hope: decency, housing and everyday life in a post-apartheid community

Author: Ross, Fiona C Date: Sep 2010 The book has been designed to demonstrate social science concepts in action. Its narrative is lively and engaging, and materials can be adapted for any level of study. Raw Life, New Hope is the stoy of one community's efforts to secure a ... Read more c b n d
Remembering St. Therese : a Namibian mission school and the possibilities for its students

Author: Williams, Christian A Date: 2002 Bibliography: leaves 141-145. Read more

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