Between the (in)formal and the (il)legal : the 'permanent temporariness' of waiting for a house

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dc.contributor.advisorOldfield, Sophieen_ZA
dc.contributor.authorGreyling, Saskiaen_ZA
dc.date.accessioned2015-09-14T06:52:10Z
dc.date.available2015-09-14T06:52:10Z
dc.date.issued2012en_ZA
dc.descriptionIncludes bibliographical references.en_ZA
dc.description.abstractIn Cape Town, 400 000 households are waiting for housing from the state. This thesis explores the everyday lived realities that waiting for housing entails: what waiting means to housing applicants, what living in temporary accommodation solutions for the long-term entails, and how these effects of waiting shape citizens' perceptions and encounters with the state. This research, conducted through open-ended, qualitative interviews provides a detailed and in-depth understanding of not only the everyday material and social experiences of waiting for housing and life in temporary accommodation, but also the types of encounters that citizens have with the state in relation to housing given the circumstances in which they wait. These narratives of waiting provide a detailed and nuanced understanding of the 'permanent temporariness' (Yiftachel, 2009a; 2009b) that waiting entails given the often difficult circumstances in which people live while waiting for housing, in overcrowded council houses, backyard shacks and informal settlements. Situated in the 'gray spaces' (Yiftachel, 2009a; 2009b) that exist between legal and illegal and formal and informal, housing applicants live in a state of 'betweenness' (Perramond, 2001) materially, socially, emotionally and politically. This 'betweenness', the core of the relationship between citizens and the state, produces a particular encounter with the state in relation to housing. This 'gray' encounter encompasses the varied ways housing applicants choose to interact with, and against, the state to access housing.en_ZA
dc.identifier.apacitationGreyling, S. (2012). <i>Between the (in)formal and the (il)legal : the 'permanent temporariness' of waiting for a house</i>. (Thesis). University of Cape Town ,Faculty of Science ,Department of Environmental and Geographical Science. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/11427/13829en_ZA
dc.identifier.chicagocitationGreyling, Saskia. <i>"Between the (in)formal and the (il)legal : the 'permanent temporariness' of waiting for a house."</i> Thesis., University of Cape Town ,Faculty of Science ,Department of Environmental and Geographical Science, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/13829en_ZA
dc.identifier.citationGreyling, S. 2012. Between the (in)formal and the (il)legal : the 'permanent temporariness' of waiting for a house. University of Cape Town.en_ZA
dc.identifier.ris TY - Thesis / Dissertation AU - Greyling, Saskia AB - In Cape Town, 400 000 households are waiting for housing from the state. This thesis explores the everyday lived realities that waiting for housing entails: what waiting means to housing applicants, what living in temporary accommodation solutions for the long-term entails, and how these effects of waiting shape citizens' perceptions and encounters with the state. This research, conducted through open-ended, qualitative interviews provides a detailed and in-depth understanding of not only the everyday material and social experiences of waiting for housing and life in temporary accommodation, but also the types of encounters that citizens have with the state in relation to housing given the circumstances in which they wait. These narratives of waiting provide a detailed and nuanced understanding of the 'permanent temporariness' (Yiftachel, 2009a; 2009b) that waiting entails given the often difficult circumstances in which people live while waiting for housing, in overcrowded council houses, backyard shacks and informal settlements. Situated in the 'gray spaces' (Yiftachel, 2009a; 2009b) that exist between legal and illegal and formal and informal, housing applicants live in a state of 'betweenness' (Perramond, 2001) materially, socially, emotionally and politically. This 'betweenness', the core of the relationship between citizens and the state, produces a particular encounter with the state in relation to housing. This 'gray' encounter encompasses the varied ways housing applicants choose to interact with, and against, the state to access housing. DA - 2012 DB - OpenUCT DP - University of Cape Town LK - https://open.uct.ac.za PB - University of Cape Town PY - 2012 T1 - Between the (in)formal and the (il)legal : the 'permanent temporariness' of waiting for a house TI - Between the (in)formal and the (il)legal : the 'permanent temporariness' of waiting for a house UR - http://hdl.handle.net/11427/13829 ER - en_ZA
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/11427/13829
dc.identifier.vancouvercitationGreyling S. Between the (in)formal and the (il)legal : the 'permanent temporariness' of waiting for a house. [Thesis]. University of Cape Town ,Faculty of Science ,Department of Environmental and Geographical Science, 2012 [cited yyyy month dd]. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/11427/13829en_ZA
dc.language.isoengen_ZA
dc.publisher.departmentDepartment of Environmental and Geographical Scienceen_ZA
dc.publisher.facultyFaculty of Scienceen_ZA
dc.publisher.institutionUniversity of Cape Town
dc.subject.otherEnvironmental and Geographical Scienceen_ZA
dc.titleBetween the (in)formal and the (il)legal : the 'permanent temporariness' of waiting for a houseen_ZA
dc.typeMaster Thesis
dc.type.qualificationlevelMasters
dc.type.qualificationnameMSocScen_ZA
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