Connecting at the intersection: Conversing identities on a street corner in Cape Town

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dc.contributor.advisorSwai, Marlon
dc.contributor.authorCalleja, Remi
dc.date.accessioned2020-12-30T10:17:59Z
dc.date.available2020-12-30T10:17:59Z
dc.date.issued2020
dc.description.abstractThe research proposes to unpack the process of identity negotiation among a group of Cape Bush doctors, as well as to reflect on my own negotiation. During the time spent together, these claimants of a KhoeSan identity presented a permeating Rastafari sense of belonging and reconnected with their Indigenous identity through their work with herbs. The research participants challenged hegemonic perspectives on identity, culture, health, and respectability. They carried out their practices and beliefs within an urban environment represented by the space of the street corner. A central relational ontology emerged throughout the research, emphasizing the multiple underlying connections and interdependencies that structure their worldview and deeply influencing my personal development. The negotiation of their identity was shaped by constant processes of re-appropriation, adaptation, and re-composition and contributed to bridging historical, cultural, and social gaps imposed by years of colonisation, oppression, and marginalisation. I argue in this research that understanding the production of identity through a dynamic and fluid framework of knowledge participates to foster reinterpretations of agency, power, wealth, and marginality. To contend with the plurality of crisis we face in the contemporary moment, We must learn from these alternative worldviews.
dc.identifier.apacitationCalleja, R. (2020). <i>Connecting at the intersection: Conversing identities on a street corner in Cape Town</i>. (Master Thesis). University of Cape Town. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/11427/32465en_ZA
dc.identifier.chicagocitationCalleja, Remi. <i>"Connecting at the intersection: Conversing identities on a street corner in Cape Town."</i> Master Thesis., University of Cape Town, 2020. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/32465en_ZA
dc.identifier.citationCalleja, R. 2020. Connecting at the intersection: Conversing identities on a street corner in Cape Town. Master Thesis. University of Cape Town. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/32465en_ZA
dc.identifier.ris TY - Master Thesis AU - Calleja, Remi AB - The research proposes to unpack the process of identity negotiation among a group of Cape Bush doctors, as well as to reflect on my own negotiation. During the time spent together, these claimants of a KhoeSan identity presented a permeating Rastafari sense of belonging and reconnected with their Indigenous identity through their work with herbs. The research participants challenged hegemonic perspectives on identity, culture, health, and respectability. They carried out their practices and beliefs within an urban environment represented by the space of the street corner. A central relational ontology emerged throughout the research, emphasizing the multiple underlying connections and interdependencies that structure their worldview and deeply influencing my personal development. The negotiation of their identity was shaped by constant processes of re-appropriation, adaptation, and re-composition and contributed to bridging historical, cultural, and social gaps imposed by years of colonisation, oppression, and marginalisation. I argue in this research that understanding the production of identity through a dynamic and fluid framework of knowledge participates to foster reinterpretations of agency, power, wealth, and marginality. To contend with the plurality of crisis we face in the contemporary moment, We must learn from these alternative worldviews. DA - 2020 DB - OpenUCT DP - University of Cape Town LK - https://open.uct.ac.za PY - 2020 T1 - Connecting at the intersection: Conversing identities on a street corner in Cape Town TI - Connecting at the intersection: Conversing identities on a street corner in Cape Town UR - http://hdl.handle.net/11427/32465 ER - en_ZA
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/11427/32465
dc.identifier.vancouvercitationCalleja R. Connecting at the intersection: Conversing identities on a street corner in Cape Town. [Master Thesis]. University of Cape Town, 2020 [cited yyyy month dd]. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/11427/32465en_ZA
dc.language.isoeng
dc.publisherUniversity of Cape Town
dc.publisher.departmentSocial Anthropology
dc.publisher.facultyFaculty of Humanities
dc.subject.otherAnthropology
dc.titleConnecting at the intersection: Conversing identities on a street corner in Cape Town
dc.typeMaster Thesis
dc.type.qualificationlevelMasters
dc.type.qualificationnameMSocSc
uct.type.publicationResearch
uct.type.resourceMaster Thesis
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