Rural transformation? Race and space in Prince Albert, South Africa

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dc.contributor.advisorSteyn, Melissaen_ZA
dc.contributor.authorMcEwen, Haleyen_ZA
dc.date.accessioned2014-10-30T13:47:05Z
dc.date.available2014-10-30T13:47:05Z
dc.date.issued2009en_ZA
dc.descriptionIncludes bibliographical references (p. 115-128).en_ZA
dc.description.abstractThis critical ethnographic study is concerned with dynamics of race and space in Prince Albert, a rural South African town. Proceeding in the wake of previous studies which have identified mechanisms of informal segregation in urban, post-apartheid contexts, this study aims to explore the ways in which transformation, as a national imperative to democratize South Africa‘s economic, political, and social landscape, is taking shape in small rural towns. It is found that fifteen years after the end of apartheid, Prince Albert’s coloured and white residents remains spatially segregated. It is argued here that this persistent segregation and inequality has become further entrenched by changes which have occurred upon the arrival of white middle class English speaking South Africans during the past fifteen years. Specifically, in advocating for the protection of Prince Albert’s ‘heritage value’ and concomitant development of the tourism industry, these new residents exert a symbolic control of space which centers their own interests and identities and ultimately re-assigns coloured residents a peripheral, disenfranchised socio-economic status.en_ZA
dc.identifier.apacitationMcEwen, H. (2009). <i>Rural transformation? Race and space in Prince Albert, South Africa</i>. (Thesis). University of Cape Town ,Faculty of Humanities ,Department of Sociology. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/11427/8954en_ZA
dc.identifier.chicagocitationMcEwen, Haley. <i>"Rural transformation? Race and space in Prince Albert, South Africa."</i> Thesis., University of Cape Town ,Faculty of Humanities ,Department of Sociology, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/8954en_ZA
dc.identifier.citationMcEwen, H. 2009. Rural transformation? Race and space in Prince Albert, South Africa. University of Cape Town.en_ZA
dc.identifier.ris TY - Thesis / Dissertation AU - McEwen, Haley AB - This critical ethnographic study is concerned with dynamics of race and space in Prince Albert, a rural South African town. Proceeding in the wake of previous studies which have identified mechanisms of informal segregation in urban, post-apartheid contexts, this study aims to explore the ways in which transformation, as a national imperative to democratize South Africa‘s economic, political, and social landscape, is taking shape in small rural towns. It is found that fifteen years after the end of apartheid, Prince Albert’s coloured and white residents remains spatially segregated. It is argued here that this persistent segregation and inequality has become further entrenched by changes which have occurred upon the arrival of white middle class English speaking South Africans during the past fifteen years. Specifically, in advocating for the protection of Prince Albert’s ‘heritage value’ and concomitant development of the tourism industry, these new residents exert a symbolic control of space which centers their own interests and identities and ultimately re-assigns coloured residents a peripheral, disenfranchised socio-economic status. DA - 2009 DB - OpenUCT DP - University of Cape Town LK - https://open.uct.ac.za PB - University of Cape Town PY - 2009 T1 - Rural transformation? Race and space in Prince Albert, South Africa TI - Rural transformation? Race and space in Prince Albert, South Africa UR - http://hdl.handle.net/11427/8954 ER - en_ZA
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/11427/8954
dc.identifier.vancouvercitationMcEwen H. Rural transformation? Race and space in Prince Albert, South Africa. [Thesis]. University of Cape Town ,Faculty of Humanities ,Department of Sociology, 2009 [cited yyyy month dd]. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/11427/8954en_ZA
dc.language.isoengen_ZA
dc.publisher.departmentDepartment of Sociologyen_ZA
dc.publisher.facultyFaculty of Humanitiesen_ZA
dc.publisher.institutionUniversity of Cape Town
dc.subject.otherDiversity Studiesen_ZA
dc.titleRural transformation? Race and space in Prince Albert, South Africaen_ZA
dc.typeMaster Thesis
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dc.type.qualificationnameMPhilen_ZA
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